The colours of green and gold are considered Pan-African colours.

The design incorporated the pan-African colours of yellow, black, green and red with the following explanation:

Only countries whose flags currently do not use Pan-African colours are included in this gallery.

Together the colours green, gold, and red constitute the Pan-African colours.

It bears the Pan-African colours and the green star from the flag of Senegal.

The following are countries and territories that use one or both sets of Pan-African colours in their official flags:

Starting from the flagpole, the colours are green, gold, and red, which are the pan-African colours.

The colours were associated with Pan-African colours.

The flag contains the Pan-African colours, although officially the colours are given a different significance:

Green is also common among the national flags of African countries; green is one of the Pan-African colours.

When adopted by Pan-Africanist polities and organizations for their activities, the colours are often referred to as the Pan-African colours.

Ayhi used the Pan-African colours of red, yellow and green in his flag, which was modeled from the flag of Liberia using horizontal stripes.

The colours are the traditional Pan-African colours : green symbolizes hope, yellow symbolizes wealth and red symbolizes courage.

The colour scheme uses the traditional Pan-African colours (Cameroon becoming the second state to do so), and the tricolor design is adapted from the flag of France.

The flag of São Tomé and Príncipe, although in the Pan-African colours, is derived from that of the Liberation Movement.

The flag is coloured in the popular Pan-African colours of the Ethiopian flag, reflecting both a break with the country's colonial past and its unity with other African ex-colonies.

In 1979, the country became known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and a new flag was adopted on 2 September that year featuring the pan-African colours of red, black, yellow and green, and the Zimbabwe Bird.

The flags of these states were influenced both by the Pan-African colours first used by Ghana, and also by the model of the French Tricolour, the flag of the former colonial power.

Families of current flags may derive from a few common ancestors as in the cases of the Pan-African colours, the Pan-Arab colors, the Pan-Slavic colors, the Nordic Cross flag and the Ottoman flag.

The Ghana national football team (The Black Stars) are currently sporting an all-white and partly black football kit instead of a kit that coordinates in color of the Ghana national flag, and in general, Pan-African colours.

The UNIA founded by Marcus Garvey has a constitution which defines red, black, and green as the Pan-African colours: "red representing the noble blood that unites all people of African ancestry, the colour black for the people, green for the rich land of Africa."