tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13080959.post-1149866704958240582006-06-09T16:20:00.000+01:002006-06-11T07:01:41.350+01:00Ghanaians know how to give someone a good send off. ‘Fantasy Coffins’ are all the rage and anyone who’s anyone is getting buried in a dead bed that’s shaped like a coke bottle or a chicken. Christoph Miensa Kofi Azornu was buried in a Palm Fruit shaped coffin.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mooky.net/uploaded_images/coffin-774983.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.mooky.net/uploaded_images/coffin-771579.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> His son Ruben explained: "However expensive it is, we feel that is the last way of according him respect." His father harvested palm fruits for a living.<br /><br />Families have also been known to advertise the time and date of a funeral (with an accompanying picture of the deceased) in Newspapers and on billboards to ensure a good turnout, but it’s the specialised coffin that offers the most prestigious farewell. "If you can't acquire it, you can at least be buried in it," says Kwame Labi, a research fellow at the University of Ghana's Institute of African Studies. Well I haven’t acquired shit so far, so I guess that makes for a rancid but cheap ceremony.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13080959-114986670495824058?l=www.mooky.net%2Findex.html'/></div>mookynoreply@blogger.com0