Uganda Flags – Ugandan Flag, Bunting & Hand Flags

The Ugandan flag: six stripes and the crested crane

Uganda’s flag has six equal horizontal stripes, black, yellow and red repeated twice, with a white disc in the centre carrying a grey crowned crane standing on one leg and facing the pole. Black is the African people, yellow the sunshine of a country on the equator, and red the brotherhood of blood that binds all Africans; the crane, the national bird, was the badge of Ugandan soldiers in the colonial period and the raised leg is read as the nation stepping forward. The design was drawn up by the justice minister Grace Ibingira after the Uganda People’s Congress won the pre-independence election, replacing an earlier green, blue and yellow proposal, and it was first raised at midnight on 9 October 1962. The proportions are 2:3. Our Uganda flag prints the crane with its red wattle and gold crest in detail and keeps it facing the hoist, which is the usual error on cheap versions.

9 October, the Convention and the Cranes

Independence Day on 9 October is marked with a parade at Kololo in Kampala and with dinners and church services wherever Ugandans gather abroad; Martyrs’ Day on 3 June at Namugongo and the Heroes’ Day on 9 June are the other flag days. Britain has one of the largest Ugandan communities outside Africa, in London, Manchester, Leeds and Leicester, with the Uganda Convention UK held in London each autumn, Pentecostal and Anglican congregations, and the Ugandan Asian families who came in 1972 and rebuilt their lives in the Midlands. The flag flies for the Cranes football team, for the Cricket Cranes who reached the T20 World Cup in 2024, for the Uganda Rugby Sevens, and above all for the runners: Stephen Kiprotich’s Olympic marathon gold in London in 2012 and Joshua Cheptegei’s world records and Olympic 10,000 metres gold in Paris in 2024.

Choosing a Uganda flag

The Uganda flag is stocked in 20x12in, 3ft x 2ft, 5ft x 3ft and 8ft x 5ft in two grades. Flagtex is the light printed woven polyester for a church, a classroom or a convention stand; DuraFlag is the knitted heavyweight with a double-stitched hem for a pole flown through every season. 5ft x 3ft is the garden pole and balcony size, 3ft x 2ft fits a bracket or a car window, 8ft x 5ft is for a stage or a 20ft mast, and 20x12in goes on a hand pole. Every size has a sewn header with brass eyelets, and the DuraFlag can be supplied with clips or a rope and toggle.

Uganda bunting

Uganda bunting is sold in 3m and 9m lengths of rectangular pennants printed with the crane flag and stitched to a tape. 3m trims a doorway or a top table; 9m runs round a church hall, a marquee or a garden for 9 October or a wedding. The pennants are weatherproof polyester and lengths join end to end, and plain black, yellow and red strings from the bunting range match the stripes.

Hand flags and table flags

Uganda hand flags on wooden sticks come in 9x6in and 18x12in for the football, the marathon route or a school parade. The Uganda table flag is a 6x4in flag on a base for a desk, the 9x6in wooden table flag and the 18x12in large wooden table flag suit a reception or a convention table, and the sleeved satin table flag is for a high commission or a formal dinner. Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan are under world flags.

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• Uganda Flag (20x12in to 8x5ft, 2 grades)from £6.99
• Uganda Bunting (3m or 9m)from £9.98
• Uganda Hand Flagsfrom £5.99
• Uganda Table Flag with Basefrom £1.98
• Uganda Large Wooden Table Flagfrom £3.98