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Saw this on an international affairs program. Not sure if it is a political flag, or a flag of a people.
Ogoni people of Nigeria, they call their part Ogoniland. Blue-Gold-Green tricolour, 6 5-pointed red stars.
The flag is the one of the MOSOP, which so much as I remember means the MOvement for the
Survival of the Ogoni People. I saw a report in 1995 on Australian TV, and the stars are all in the red middle band in a circle, all normal
(like Cape Verde Islands).
Pascal Monney, 23 Feb 1999
I don't know about the number and position of the stars, but the three colours can be seen on
the homepage of the Mosop-Canada. The gold seems
to be close to 255-204-0, the blue to 0-102-153, whereas the green is somewhere between 0-102-51, 0-153-0
and 0-153-51...
Thanh-Tâm Lê, 24 Feb 1999
This past weekend (16 or 17 June 2001) I saw a programme on
the CBC (Canadian TV) about Ken Saro-Wiwa Junior
returning to Nigeria to bury his father. His father's supporters flew a flag of the Movement
for the Survival of the Ogoni People "MOSOP".
This flag was V-Y-B equal vertical stripes with 6 red
stars in a circle in the centre, in the red stripe, rather than spilling onto the green & blue
portions.
The one being waved behind Saro-Wiwa had the stars
"points-down" and on a (approx) 3x5 or 3x6 foot flag
the stars were maybe 3 inches high. (1metre high flag,
7 cm stars for speakers of metric).
Dean McGee, 21 June 2001
The flag you report has the colours in the opposite order to the other reports.
Combined with the fact that the stars you saw were 'pointing downwards',
could the flag you saw have been upside down?
Jonathan Dixon, 23 June 2001
It is possible that I wrote the colours down in the wrong order.
Dean McGee, 7 July 2001
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