funeral procession
Note the speakers.
Funerals in Ghana are an event – up there with weddings in terms of planning, cost, and level of celebration. They can take months, even up to a year, to plan and save for. Obituaries are made into color posters and put up around town. There is music, drumming, dancing and singing as they parade through town. These processions, which occur on Friday afternoons, kick off the 3-day affairs.
I had heard them go by every Friday since arriving, but was always in a meeting or workshop. This time we dashed out and snapped some shots.
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