Friday, 5 February 2016

Guinea-Bissau Flag History And The Flag Company Inc

By Ben Dolling


A neighbor of Senegal and Guinea in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast, Guinea-Bissau is about half the size of South Carolina. The country is a low-lying coastal region of swamps, rain forests, and mangrove-covered wetlands, with about 25 islands off the coast.

The land now known as Guinea-Bissau was once the kingdom of Gabú, which was part of the larger Mali empire. After 1546, Gabú became more autonomous, and at least, portions of the kingdom existed until 1867. The first European to encounter Guinea-Bissau was the Portuguese explorer Nuño Tristão in 1446; colonists in the Cape Verde islands obtained trading rights in the territory, and it became a center of the Portuguese slave trade. In 1879, the connection with the islands was broken.

The success of the revolutionary struggle created a strong sense of national identity that was reinforced by linguistic distinctiveness. Because of the upheaval caused by the war for liberation, large numbers of residents migrated to neighboring countries and to Europe. Efforts to liberalize the economy and democratize the political system have led to corruption and exacerbated the gap in wealth between government officials and the citizens. As a result, the nation-state has come to be perceived as a platform for enriching oneself and one's family and a source of passports and identity papers that allow people to escape from the nation.

The banner of Guinea-Bissau was accepted on September 24, 1973, the day the Portugal administration finished and the nation won independence. Affected by the banner of Ghana, the banner of Guinea-Bissau includes the conventional Pan-African shades of green, gold, and red.

The flag comprises two horizontal stripes of gold (top), and green (bottom), and one red vertical stripe on the left side of the flag. The red band consists of a black five-pointed star that represents the unity of the African nations.

Every one of the hues used as a part of the banner has their own particular hugeness. Red stands for the blood shed by the nation's predecessors in their battle for independence from Portugal; gold symbolizes the plenitude of minerals found in the nation; it can likewise be deciphered as the brilliant daylight that Guinea-Bissau encounters. Green speaks to the rich green woodlands found in the nation and agriculture. Flag Company Inc decided to assist with the history development by providing special decals and banners to make it easy to build a bit of history right at home.




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