Opinion:Flags of West African countries. Looks like West African countries went to the same Tailor to get their flags done.

Opinion:Flags of West African countries. Looks like West African countries went to the same Tailor to get their flags done.

Flags of West African countries. Looks like West African countries went to the same Tailor to get their flags done. Can't blame the Tailor.?

Ghana must have arrived first and given a black star patched in Yellow, Green and Red.

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Then came Senegal: You see what you gave Ghana, yes, vertical of her. Give it to me quickly.

Tailor : Star as well? Senegal: Yes please Make it green though.

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Tailor: Who is next?

Mali: It's Me. Fram the Land of Mansa Musa. Richest man to ever walk on planet earth.

Tailor: OK Rich boy, how do you want yours?

Mali:Just remove the star from Ghana and give Me what you are left with

Tailor: Aah! You are not only rich, you are Lazy too!

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Tailor: Don't tell me you want a star, I am out of star design.

Cameroon: Not so fast, Tailor. Nobody has a monopoly over stars. Ever heard of Yellow star on red?

Tailor: I swear you have taken the last star.

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Tailor: Yooh Benin. How can I help you? Wait are you even a full country? Aren't you part of Nigeria?

Benin: Oh so now you have graduated from Tailor to UN you are now deciding who is a country and who is not? I don't need star if that is what you think.

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Tailor: Burkina Faso, Please tell me you're different from all these guys.

Burkina Faso: Quite. We are proudly different. So just give us red and green. No Yellow.

Tailor: Sure?

Burkina Faso: Quite. But if you have any Yellow remaining you can give us a dash of it on a star.

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Tailor: Mauritania please here's your yellow star, green and red and go!

Mauritania: Please add the moon. Full galaxy please. We're not an ordinary country.

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Tailor: Niger Niger Niger. How may I help you?

Niger: Make me look different please. As foreign as possible

Tailor: Say no more. No star

Niger: But this is Indian flag.

Tailor: You said you wanted to look foreign

Niger: Yes foreign, but India?

Tailor: Get out of here.

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Tailor: what's your name?

Ivory Coast

Tailor: wait, your other name?

Ivory: Cote D'Ivoire

Tailor: Do I have any designs for such a name?

Ivory: Never mind. See what you gave Niger? Vertical of that

Tailor: No star?

Ivory: No, I'm good. Just remove that Indian dot at the center.

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Tailor: Who are you?

GB: Guinea Bissau

Tailor: Haven't I served a Guinea already?

GB: Yes. But I'm Bissau

Tailor: What's your capital?

GB: Bissau

Tailor: what?

GB: Bissau. Anyway, don't overthink. Give us exactly what you gave Togo. We have other priorities as a nation not flags

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Tailor: who be you?

Guinea: Guinea Conakry

Tailor: Real name?

Guinea: No, I'm Guinea but I add Conakry my capital just so I'm distinguished from Bissau and Equatorial

Tailor: Ha! So what design for you?

Guinea: Remember Mali's? Just swap the green and red. Don't overthink

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Tailor: Yooo Togo, come for your flag. Where have you been?

Togo: Been fighting with Benin all along over which country is bigger

Tailor: OK now go!

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Tailor: You should be the last

STP: Yes. Sao Tome & Principe

Tailor: OK who am I talking to? Sao Tome or Principe?

STP: One country. We'd fancy green, yellow and a dash of red triangle

Tailor: A star?

STP: 2 stars plz

Tailor: Two stars? Oh one for Sao Tome the other for Principe?

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Tsitsi Tsopotsa

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2 年

Hi Clarence, I’m assuming you know the significance of the colours of their flags ??

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