The national flag of Ghana consists of a horizontal triband of Red, Gold, and Green. It was designed in replacement of the Gold Coast colony's Blue Ensign. The flag was adopted upon the independence of the Dominion of Ghana on March 6, 1957. It was designed the same year by Theodosia Okoh, a renowned Ghanaian artist. The flag was flown until 1964 and it was then reinstated in 1966. It consists of the Ethiopian Pan-African colours of Red, Gold, and Green, in horizontal stripes, with a black five-pointed star in the centre of the gold stripe. The Ghanaian flag was the second African flag after the flag of the Ethiopian Empire to feature these colours, although the colours are inverted. The flag's design influenced that of the flag of Guinea-Bissau (1973). (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)