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Meet dancing pallbearers who send loved ones off in style

 

  • The pallbearers execute complex dance moves and even pretend to drop the casket
  • Many families are paying for their services to spice up funerals

Funerals drive Africans crazy. To many, this is a big bash, where the departed is celebrated. Just like we recently reported the oddities in Kenyan funerals, turns out Ghanaian, too, have ‘swagged’ up funerals.

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