From elaborate keeping dead bodies in the morgue for so long, expensive caskets and designer funeral cloths to multiple ceremonies, live bands and lavish feeding, funerals have evolved into major ...

It’s hard to miss the coffin shaped like an old Nokia brick phone at the entrance of the sunlit workshop on the outskirts of Accra. Here, on a busy road next to Ghana’s Atlantic coastline, Eric Kpakpo ...

Bonakye -Asuogya (O/R), March 24, GNA – The Konkomba ethnic group holds dear a profound understanding of death and the afterlife, intricately woven with the ancient practice of soothsaying. The Ghana ...

In Ghana, funerals were not brief ceremonies but multi-day rituals with structure and meaning. Mourning came first, marked by silence, black clothing, and direct family grieving. Only after farewells ...