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WORLDLOW3h ago · Sep 3, 2026, 11:07 AM

In Ghana, larger-than-life coffins tell the stories of the dead

Africanews [en] · sub saharan africa

In Ghana, particularly among Ga communities around the capital, "figurative" or "fantasy" coffins, as they're known, offer fantastical, yet intimate, send-offs. Fishermen are buried in massive, human-sized fish or canoes, farmers in cocoa pods, drivers in cars and religious figures in Bibles

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