Video: Unique culture in Ghana where the dead are buried in figurative coffins

28th August 2016

Ghana has a unique culture where the dead are buried in figurative coffins depending on the dead’s profession or calling in life. It could be in the shape of a house for a landlord, a plane for a pilot or a cobra for an aggressive person.

Alex Chamwada met a carpenter making such coffins in Volta region of Ghana and filed the following report.