Asafo flag
Maker: Nana Egyei, Komenda Workshop
Medium:Cotton, applique, embroidery
Geography: Unidentified Company, Kisi, Ghana
Date: c. 1970
Object number: 2012.65.48
Credit Line: Federico Carmignani Asafo Collection; This acquisition was made possible with the generous support of the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust
DescriptionWarfare is not something that takes place only in the battlefield. For
the asafo companies of western Ghana, competition among groups took as much an
aesthetic as a military form. These military companies use flags to represent,
in vivid and graphic ways, the values and ethos of the group.
