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Google honours Ghana’s flag designer in its doodle

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Ghana’s flag designer, Theodosia Salome Abena Kumea Okoh néé Asihene was on Monday honoured by Google in its doodle.

Thedosia Okoh who was born in Effiduase located in Ashanti Region of Ghana on June 13, 1922 at Anum in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region. She was the fourth of eight children born to the Rev Asihene.

She is a renowned artist having exhibited her art pieces in various parts of the world.

Fifty nine years after Okoh first designed the flag, the vibrant stripes of red, yellow, and green behind a black star, remain a strong symbol of national pride and identity for the Ghanaian people.

She has worked in many mediums. She has produced sketches and paintings in water colour, paintings in oil colour, and created many collages of feathers, and corn stalk, some of which have been hung in several homes and galleries all over the world.

Okoh, who would have been 94 years old today, was not only an artist but an athlete who led the Ghanaian hockey team to their first ever World Cup appearance. The team also won the Fair Play Award, Ghana’s first ever international hockey award, during her tenure.

Her design of the Ghana’s flag spawned off the flags of several African countries as they also became independent of colonial rule thereafter.

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