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Ghana – Ga People

Where: Ghana, Accra, Ashaiman
People: Ga tribe
Religion: Catholicism mixed with traditional beliefs and traditions
Ritual: Celebration of Life

In Ghana a funeral is called a Celebration of Life. Posters informing about the dead and about when the funeral ceremony takes place is hung around the neighbourhood to invite people to the ceremony.

The people of the Ga tribe has a tradition of burying important persons in handmade coffins that reflects the dead persons profession or passion in life. The tradition is probably based on old tradition, where the dead chieftains was carried to the burial ground in their thrones/stools.Read More

In Ghana people believe that life continues in the next world in the same way as here on earth.

The poultry farmer Joseph Huno Nomo (aka Nene Nomo) died at the age of 68 years. To honour Joseph, his family had a wooden coffin shaped as a chicken made for the funeral.

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