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Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - BBC reports

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06-03 02:38
 
 
 
The president is the chief mourner Nana is the chief mourner. They should fray the program and bury the chief

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Kofi
06-03 02:38
 
 
 
 
its not true wrong caption, why not, "Why SOME Ghanaian's are so slow to bury their dead' is it the whole Ghana practicing this wake keeping?

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Sanjay Abu Dhabi
06-03 06:07
 
 
 
 
ONLY ASHANTIS & AKYEMS KEEP LONG E. Ohene, you are over generalizing. You faint in the North and fail to recover in time and see whether they will not start digging your grave in an hour. So why write as if Ghana is Ashantis and Akyems? How about the Mosl

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TRUMP
06-03 06:45
 
 
 
 
 
My beloved grandma was buried too fast While the Akans take too long to bury, we must also admit that the Northeners are too fast. It has been years but it still pains me that I didn't behold my grandma's corpse. She had a heart attack in the evening and the messa

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Inusa Mekuka
06-03 10:43
 
 
 
 
 
 
USELESS LEARN FROM MUSLAMS WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. DOESN'T MAKE SENSE WHILES THOSE LEFT BEHIND ARE HUNGRY, NO MONEY TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. IT SHAME ONLY BLACK MONKEYS DO THAT

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JOSH1
06-03 15:42
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - Hahaha!!!! this only happens in Africa, because we wast so much, we love the dead than the living and we don't learn.

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Sophie USA
06-03 02:40
 
 
 
 
SICK PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE DEAD THAN LEAVI ONLY IN BLACK AFRICA GHANA AND IT SICK IGNORANCE, ILLITRATE LACK SIMPLE KNOWLEDGE. FAIL TO MOVE ON INTO THE FUTURE. WHY DON'T DAY STAY HOME WITH THEM AND FEED THEM AS WELL. MONEY THAT CAN BE USE TO CARE FOR THOSE LEFT BEHIND

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JOSH1
06-03 15:46
 
 
 
Really? Meanwhile, there are children in the family who can't access quality health services or proceed further in education because their parents can't afford tuition but has money for funerals. And we accuse Trump for calling a sp

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Koo Nimo
06-03 03:11
 
 
 
Waste of time and money Interesting piece. May I add the stupidity of an tradition where handkerchiefs, drinks, clothes and others are arranged, carried by young girls, not boys to show off as if the dead need these. If some family members happens t

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Kojo
06-03 04:24
 
 
 
 
HAVE PRORATED MORGUE FEES Morgue fees encourage people to keep dead bodies for prolonged time. Collect the fees up front. Double the fees after the first 2 weeks. Double it again after another 2 weeks. This is a cash cow in the wait.

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Kokrokoo
06-03 06:33
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - Please this story is not entirely true because some Ghanaians do even leave their bodies beyond a day

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Shaotic
06-03 04:28
 
 
 
 
Treasury in death I think those of Islamic religion do not keep their bodies for ages. If you work in Europe or the USA and told your employer you lost your father in January they gave you a compassionate period of a week. In November after

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Jackson
06-03 04:43
 
 
 
 
 
BEAUTIFUL WRITING GREAT WRITING. NO WONDER YOU WRITE FOR THE BBC. THERE ARE SOME HORRIBLE PIECES YOU READ HERE. THANK YOU LIZ.

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ABEN WAHA
06-03 05:05
 
 
 
Hypocrisy . This is not only acake but foolishness. This kind of cultural practices makes Akans the most foolish and damp people on earth. What nonsense is called befitting burial. They mostly ignore the person when he is sick but o

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DDT
06-03 04:46
 
 
 
 
rubbish talk No wonder your name is ddt,dude across Ghana it's only those who practice Islam region bury their dead on a day or two. Apart from that no tribes in ghana from North to south, I can give you chiefs in the north those bodies a

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Jeffrey Daniels
06-03 10:10
 
 
 
Divide the body! They have become Europeans! When there was no morgue how did they do? If there's confusion then they should divide the body so everyone can do what he/like!

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Badu
06-03 04:56
 
 
 
 
Untrue story Be specific and mention the ethnic groups and do not indicate Ghanaians. It is some Akan and Ewe groups who practice this backward activities. When President Mills died, it never took weeks before the burial. Moslems and trad

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True Talk
06-03 05:26
 
 
 
 
 
I AM DISAPPOINTED IN LIZ. THIS WRITER SEEMS TO RELISH THIS CULTURE IN HER WRITE-UP. I THINK IT IS ONLY A FEW TRIBES DOING IT. I THINK IT IS OVERDONE BECAUSE IN SOME CASES, THIS PERSON IS EVEN IGNORED WHEN THEY ARE SICK. IT ALSO MUST BE IN THE TOWNS WH

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don't give up
06-03 08:38
 
 
 
D. TRUMP MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT So, Donald Trump may have been right, after all.

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Odikro
06-03 05:18
 
 
 
burying the dead it is only the too know Akans who do this...............

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jon dough
06-03 05:38
 
 
 
Cost of funerals and its impact Very interesting coverage. We also need to know the associated cost of the funeral and its impact on the family and government. Many families go through a heap of debt after funerals have been and these are affecting the soci

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Foster soley
06-03 06:19
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - Fools,are Muslims Ghanaians?

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Nana Taabea
06-03 06:57
 
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - Muslims don't even want to be Ghanaians; a country full of corruption, hatred, bitterness, fake pastors etc. Is Ghana better than Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon etc

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Hanson UK
06-03 09:02
 
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - Nana Taabea is a wasted sperm who adds up nothing to motherland Ghana but just occupying space and a negative in everything.

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Abdul-mumin
06-03 10:05
 
 
 
 
Anyone born in Ghana is Ghanian. YES MUSLIMS ARE GHANIANS IF BORN IN GHANA ISLAM IS,A RELIGION NOT A NATIONALITY OR COUNTRY.. ANYONE BORN IN AMETICAN IS AMERICAN NATIONAL, BUT, RELIGION COULD BE MUSLIN, BAPTIST, CATHOLIC ETC... I THINK YOU ARE CONFUSED

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marie springs khela
06-03 19:33
 
 
 
 
Burn the sea Hmmmm brother what is the difference between you and a Muslim ,I believed u can't think far ,when did you take your last maleria tablets?

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Adjoa
06-04 18:10
 
 
 
Put an end to such funerals. I think the government should intervene so the parliament can amend a law that will put an end off all this unnecessary cost and pressure they put on people when they lost their relatives, I am an Akan myself but I see this a

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Akosua
06-03 06:58
 
 
 
 
re Akosua,I agree with some of your subsections.but if you read the bible James tells us not to be quick in judgment the article needs to considered by parliament as you rightful said, but at the same these kind of practice is

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Jeffrey Daniels
06-03 10:31
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - The writer is talking about the Akans who are the true Ghanaians but you say Muslims, are Muslims Ghanaians? The are the Malians, Bukinabes and Nigeriens who migrated to Ghana.

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Nana Taabea
06-03 07:05
 
 
 
 
double fool You're a double fool to assume Muslims are not Ghanaians. Are u saying sheikh I.C quay, sheikh Amin Bonsu, Dr mahamudu bawumia, Aliu mahama, hajia alima mahama, hawa yakubu ogede, kwesi nyantekyi, etc are not Ghanaians? What

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Hanson UK
06-03 08:59
 
 
 
 
Asante region is Ghana! Gyimi niba kwasia aboaba! Instead seeking knowledge! So an akan who is a Muslim is no more Ghanaian? Then Asante region is Ghana!

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West
06-03 12:28
 
 
 
Are there other good reasons too? The writer did not make world know that the African sees death as a celebration of life. This celebration is both the life of the dead and the living. The narrow interpretation of funerals as event that disposes the dead is n

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Augustine
06-03 07:10
 
 
 
Ghana for u This is true talk

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Sammy tuga
06-03 07:27
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - Hausa speakers in the country are not Ghanaians,but rather illegal migrants from Niger and Nigeria

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korku
06-03 09:44
 
 
 
 
Speak hausa then u r Nigerian! Kwasia! Then any Asante who can speak hausa is Nigerian!

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West
06-03 12:33
 
 
 
Really? backward culture. unproductive. time wasting and wasted resources. ignorance is king. everything is backward in Africa. culture how crude and archaic it turns out to be is killing the people.

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yebopower
06-03 11:20
 
 
 
Re-source When it comes to death, I love how moslems deal with it.Why waste soo much money on a dead body?Here in Germany, the dead are burried within a week!This is what we have to adopt!Many families go bankrupt in Ghana because of v

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Nkansah.
06-03 12:26
 
 
 
GHANAIANS WORSHIP THE DEAD! FOOLS! WHO SAID GHANAIANS AREN'T FOOLISH. MANY GHANAIANS WORSHIP THE DEAD THAN THE LIVING. GHANAIANS WORSHIP THE LIVING ONLY IF S/HE IS RICH, REGARDLESS OF THE SOURCE OF THE RICHES. FOOLS DIE FOR WANT OF WISDOM! THAT'S WHY GHANA IS

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Pastor Bend Over
06-03 14:40
 
 
 
I DONT NEED A CIRCUS. NONSENSE AN CRAZINEES..I WILL BE CREMATED AN IF MY HUSBAND MY NEXT OF KIN AN MY ADULT CHILDREN WANT TO HOST A MEMORIAL SERVICE, ITS THEIR BUSINESS. I'LL BE DEAD AN WONT KNOW ANTHING AN IT WILL ALL BE OVER WITHIN TWO WEEKS

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marie springs khela
06-03 19:22
 
 
 
Funerals/Burial Both my grandparents were buried within three days! My father, insisted on 7 days. We managed it in 10 days due to some sluggishness in the system. These people mentioned are well known members of society/professiional. I abh

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Yvonne
06-03 23:05
 
 
 
Why stupid ghanians r slow to bury We are FOOLISH, including being MENTALLY RETARDED, funerals r a big show off nd party for the masses, l wouldn't want people dancing nd partying @ my parents funeral, it's a time for the deceased children nd spouse to mourn

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Queenie
06-04 02:22
 
 
 
DEMONS Inhibits Dead Bodies If Not ..... To ALL GHS for your information, your love ones dead bodies will be inhibited by DEMONS if your dead love ones are not burried within days of their passing. Their stinky corpes releases stentch smells that attracts DEMONS to

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Palmwine Tapper
06-04 09:23
 
 
 
Re: Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead - It is not only to settle dispute but rather Tolerate the dead than the living cus they will announce the final funeral rites for a long time so that at the funeral they actually get what they are looking for (Money)

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Agyapong Peter
06-04 13:31
 
 
 
My take on the subject matter In the Akan community, it's the queen rather who decides on who succeeds a dead. The idea of keeping the dead in the fridge and the others like brochures etc. are all imported tradition which were not part of the Akan traditi

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Paul
06-04 19:36
 
 
 
Funeral and Culture This kind of culture originated from ISRAEL and I was told it’s been practise in some part of Ethiopia as well. Let us not condemn it as a bad culture. I think we have to consider the dignity of the dead and the last respec

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Charles Konadu
06-05 06:15
 
 
 
Funerals in Ghana The report by Elizabeth Ohene it's a true picture of Ghanaian society However she has not addressed the issues of some of the family members not be be around and working outside where the dead persons live Some children a

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Debbie
06-05 07:42
 
 
 
Barbaric Funerals waste time and money. The state must enact laws to control long, archaic funerals. Keeping e body in e morgue for long, One week celebration, Obituary, radio and TV announcements, arranging for chairs, canopies, PA s

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KWAME Nkrumah Osagyefo
06-05 17:29
 
 
 
The Essence of Being Born Again Blessed be God! Madam Elizabeth, this is a very, very important topic you have raised. This is a subject that you need to study and come up with an answer. If you truly open your heart to the scriptures and understand why Jes

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Evelyn Abotsi@thegospler80
06-05 23:13
 
 
 
Burying the dead You are ace world journalist and you use the statement "Ghanaians). Oh my dear writer how do you disgrace your own country like this when you, (yourself) claimed you burried your mother "not slowly" but quickly. It is not the

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David Sowah
06-06 12:26
 
 
 
SO WHAT BBC GOT TO DO THAT We Africans are proud of our culture so if for some reason a person is not burial takes a longer time, thatis our business not BBC business.

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Agya Owusu Bantama
06-06 13:08
 
 
 
Nkrumah will be turning in his grave We are really sick people on earth six in the morgue waste of money in this 21st century @ peace

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lone prophet of Jehovah
06-06 18:51