The Ghana flag
Ghana’s national flag is made up of Pan-African colours; red, gold and green, horizontal stripes with a black five-pointed star in the centre of the gold stripe.
The red represents the blood of those who died in the country's struggle for independence from Great Britain, the gold represents the mineral wealth of the country, the green symbolises the country's rich forests and natural wealth, and the black star is the symbol of African emancipation.
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The black star was adopted from the flag of the Black Star Line, a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey that operated from 1919 to 1922.
It is where the Ghana national football team derived its nickname, the "Black Stars".
The flag of Ghana was designed by Theodosia Salome Okoh in 1957 and was flown until 1962 and reinstated in 1966.
The Ghanaian flag was the second African flag after the flag of the Ethiopian Empire to feature these colours.
Independence Square
Black Star Square, also known as Independence Square, is a public square in Accra, Ghana, bordered by the Accra Sports
Stadium and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. The square often hosts the annual independence celebrations as well as other national events.
It is currently the site for all civic and military parades in Ghana. It was completed in the year 1961, which coincided with the state visit to Ghana of Queen Elizabeth II.
