Asafo company flags with Union Jack canton (Fante people, Ghana)

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by antonio martins
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• “Game of Checkers”
• “Dragon”
• “Three gong-gongs”
• “Woman worriers”
• “Scales of the dead”
• “Road Close”

• About Asafo company flags
• Examples of Asafo company flags:
  • with Ghana flag canton
  • with other or no canton (including considerably altered Union Jacks)
• Ghana
• United Kingdom: ensigns

“Game of Checkers” company flag

An abstract flag with a Union Jack in the canton. The border contains narrow Black and White fields, which makes the static patterns moving somehow. The chessboard is a secret code for a scene in which two opponents play a startegic boardgame. Like the African Oware-game the Game of Checkers is a metaphore for war. Images of checkers-players are known in the Asafo iconography. The way the Union Jack is made points at the same maker as flags 23-25 and 72.
Jarig Bakker, 06 Jan 2000, quoting [gru95]

“Dragon” company flag

This dragon is a remarkable formal representation of the proverb: "He can fly and penetrate the earth, he can go whereever he wants to go." Wings and arrow-pointed tail point at his exceptional capabilities. As a total figure the Dragon has been turned towards the left; the way in which wings and legs are related look like two figures, who travel in the opposite direction than the Dragon. So: a-a watch it!: the Dragon can travel in any direction!
Jarig Bakker, 06 Jan 2000, quoting [gru95]

The text from [gru95] fails to mention the inscription "Nº2" and also the orange human figure holding a megaphone/trumpet.
António Martins, 03 Jun 2004

“Three gong-gongs” company flag

Three gong-gongs as symbol for the state of