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2:3~ image by Željko Heimer, 28 May 2002
[smi80] designates this flag to be the
state ensign too (i.e. CSW/CS-)
Željko Heimer, 15 Jan 2001
National Flag and Jack
The national flag is a black-red-green tricolor with white fimbriations
and overall a Masai shield and two white spears. The shield is red with
black flanks and a white disk in the middle and four white charges. The
Album 2000 is the first place where I see the construction details for
this flag, and it defines the ratio of three stripes as 6+1+6+1+6. I guess
that there may have existed also detailed construction sheet of the central
emblem too.
Source: Album 2000.
Željko Heimer, 30 Mar 2002
Kenya Flag
Flag Overall Dimensions - 3:2
Three major strips - Black , Red , and Green separated by narrow white
strips. A symmetrical shield and spears superimposed centrally.
Black represents the people of Kenya.
Red represents the struggle for freedom.
Green represents Kenya's agriculture and natural resources.
White represents Unity and Peace.
The black, red and white shield symbolizes the defense of freedom.
Kenyan Flag Specifications
All Materials to conform to the appropriate B.S.S (British Standard
Specifications).
All dimensions given do not necessarily represent any particular measurements
and are merely proportional.
Red to be 'Post Office Red', B.S shade reference 0-006
Green to be B.S shade reference 0-010.
Source: this
website.
Dov Gutterman, 27 May 2002
On 27 August 2010 the president of Kenya ratified the new constitution of
the Republic of Kenya. The constitution was agreed by a referendum held
earlier in August. The new constitution includes a specification sheet of the
Kenyan flag, which was adopted at the time of independence. This is the
first flag specification sheet which, to the best of my knowledge, has received
constitutional status.
I have not yet found a copy of the newly ratified Kenyan Constitution.
However, there are some examples of the Draft Constitution which was issued on
06 May 2010. Article 9 and the Second Schedule deal with the national
symbols of Kenya. This draft is the one that was ratified as the new Kenyan
Constitution.
For a draft of the Constitution see this
website.
Jos Poels, 27 August 2010
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics
(Flags and Anthems Manual, London, 2012 [loc12])
provides recommendations for national flag designs. Each National Olympic
Committee was sent an image of their flag, including the PMS shades, by the
London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) for their approval.
Once this was obtained, the LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for
further approval. So, while these specifications may not be the official,
government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the National Olympic
Committee believed their flag to be.
For Kenya : PMS 180 red, 347 green and black. The vertical flag is simply the
horizontal version turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise.
Ian Sumner,
10 Oct 2012
A Ministerial Regulation dated 1965 restricts the
categories of officials who can fly the national flag on their vehicles to the
President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, the
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ministers and the Attorney-General.
Attorney-General Githu Muigai recently recalled that Governors cannot fly the
national flag on their cars. Many governors, after they were sworn in last week,
have been flying the national flag on their vehicles. Governors William Kabogo (Kiambo
County) and Jackson Mandago (Uasin Gishu) have told they would continue flying
the flag. Kabongo said the Transition Authority issued the flags they are
flying to them immediately they were sworn in and therefore they were flying
them legally.
Ivan Sache, 09 April 2013
In this article
suggested that the governors fly their own regional flags rather than the Kenyan
national flag.
Andy S, 11 April 2013
![[construction sheet]](../images/k/ke).gif)
image
by Željko Heimer, 30 Mar 2002
Click here for the flag construction
sheet. It is based on the link
provided by Dov Gutterman.
Željko Heimer, 28 May 2002
image
by Željko Heimer, 30 Mar 2002
The COA greatly based on the black-white one provided in Corel Clipart
collection:
Željko Heimer, 30 Mar 2002
The arms were granted on October 15, 1963.
The shape of the shield and spears are those used by the Masai tribe.
Harambee is the motto of the chief political party KANU
(Kenya African National Union) and means "all pull together". It was
used by the first President Jomo Kenyatta to try to turn 50-60 disparate
tribes into one nation at independence. The chicken is the symbol of the
KANU. The shield colors represent the struggle for independence - green
is the earth, red is the blood of the Mau Mau warriors for independence
and black the rich soils. The lions are obviously a key animal in Kenya's
wildlife parks.
Info from Ralf Hartemink's
website. See also: this
website.
Jarig Bakker, 25 February 1999
A waving flag of the Kenya Youth Movement is shown in the upper left corner
of this page: <http://www.vijanakenya.org/about.htm>.
"The Kenya youth movement is an initiative by young Kenyans seeking to unite all
the Kenyan youth under one umbrella for the sake of their social- economic
and political consciousness and prosperity."
Valentin Poposki, 31 Jan 2007
image by Jens Pattke, 31 Aug 2013
The flag of the Postal Corporation of Kenya is shown
here.
Dave Fowler, 30 Aug 2013
