Funerals are a big deal in Ghana and it is not uncommon, in some parts, for a ceremony to last up to seven days, drawing thousands of crowds adorned in flowing red and black robes and gold jewelry.

They traveled to Ghana to understand the real tradition behind the viral “dancing coffin” clips. What they found went far beyond a meme: fantasy coffins shaped like tuna and Bibles, funeral posters ...

You may have seen them on the Internet: six men in black suits, sunglasses and patent leather shoes grooving to a techno beat while carrying a coffin. They are Ghana’s dancing pallbearers, a crew of ...

Swiss social anthropologist Regula Tschumi spent over two decades photographing Ghana’s vibrant funeral culture. Her new book, Buried in Style, is a celebration of life, death, and transformation — ...

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 ...