Comments on: Ghana: delayed funerals

By: david bakeri

david bakeri — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:38:11 +0000

The opinions expressed so far are valid. But let’s admit that things are getting exaggerated. Let us say about 100 years ago when there were no storage facilities in the mortuary could any ethnic group leave a corpse for even 2 weeks before burial? It is not the case that a successor must by all means be got before the dead chief is burried. If that was the case how come traditionally when a chief dies a reagent is elected to fill the space in the interim? food for thought!

By: george naykene

george naykene — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:59:50 +0000

delay funerals are part of a traditional setting where the deceased are kept, renovations made and all necessary arrangments made to give the departed a befiting burial.
Our dead in Africa and Ghana in particular are belived to be travelling inotanother world and msut be properly prepared before they are sent hom
Consult local Ghanaian cultural experts for further explanations.
The blog may not satisfy all your curiosity.

By: enoch darfah frimpong

enoch darfah frimpong — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:21:01 +0000

Culturally in Ghana, there is the need for procedures to be followed in the installation of a new chief when an old one dies. There is the need for proper investigations to be instituted into one’s background before he is installed a chief. All these are done such that as a successor is found before the chief is buried. After the chief is buried, the successor is outdoored and subsequently installed after which the new chief organises the funeral of the dead one. This is the little I know about it but there are more to it.

By: kwabena

kwabena — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:59:34 +0000

Why not find out the cultural significance. The weblog is not the right place to inquire about such things.