The funeral dancers from Ghana have become a pop culture meme. Surely you've seen them: the pall bearers who are dancing while carrying the coffin of a departed. For those of us who have visited the excellent National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, Texas, we've known that the Ghanaians have a non-traditional, almost whimsical, attitude toward the funeral ceremony.
I learned this from the display of children's coffins at the museums. Birds, crabs, fish, race cars, ships, helicopters, all coffins for the young departed, My personal favorite was the leek:
Visited December 2015.
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