The colors o the banner wur adoptit frae those o the Rassemblement Democratique Africaine, the dominant movement at the time o unthirldom. The colors wur in turn derived frae those o Ghana, which haed first adoptit them in 1957. Sekou Toure, the first Preses o Guinea, wis a close associate o Kwame Nkrumah, the umwhile dictator o Ghana. Red seembolizes the fowk's sacrifice, yellow represents the sun an the riches o the earth, an green the kintra's vegetation.