Description Vertical tricolor green red yellow, with a yellow fivepointed star in the middle. When British South Cameroon joined federation, two stars where added. In 1972, the country became a unitary state and three years later two stars where replaced with just one. The flag was officially hoisted on 20 May 1975.
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Zeljko Heimer 8 December 1995 Red, yellow and green are the pan-African colours and the pattern of the flag recalls the French Tricolore. The colours of the Cameroon flag form a vertical tri-colour based on the flag of France which was the colonial power controlling most of its territory before independence. The basic pattern of the flag of Cameroon dates back to 1957. In 1961 Southern Cameroon, a former British colony or dependency, voted to join Cameroon in a federal type of government. At that time two yellow stars were added to the upper part of the green portion of the flag.