Ghanaian Casket ‘Azonto Dancers’ - Video

In rural Ghana where even now birthday and wedding celebrations are virtually unknown, funerals have always been a significant feature of our social life. However, as funerals are all about mourning rather than partying, we in Ghana have completely lost its meaning, replacing it with commercialization and exhibitionism.  

Until quite recently, one significant aspect of Akan tradition was that mourning and feasting never went together. Today, however, when you attend a funeral you may be forgiven for thinking that it’s a big party with huge amounts of food on offer.

Video coverage has also become a familiar item on a funeral budget, which given the cost in what is still a relatively poor economy, makes little sense.

Another well documented fashionable trend is the use of expensive coffins. They are now so costly that people are deliberately destroying them after depositing them in the grave so they won’t be stolen! 

Akosua Puni And Michael Essien

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