Fante Frankaa or Asafo Military Flag: Red & Brown Men Shooting At Steamer
About this piece
A burnt-orange field, two pointing men and a building with blue roofs
This frankaa OR ASAFO military FLAG is Fante, from Ghana, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is cotton. Each Fante Asafo company, a warrior group whose name joins the words for war and people, identified itself with its own flag called frankaa, flown on tall masts at the company shrine. A bright orange banner edged with a patchwork of small pink, purple and white blocks. A dark figure and a red figure gesture toward a cream building with blue rooflines and round windows. Ties hang from the corners. It is 55 inches wide and 36 long.
Orange this confident does not need a second color.






