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Figurative palanquin; drawing by Ataa Oko from Ghana. Among Christians, the use of custom coffins is relatively recent and began in the Greater Accra Region around 1950. They were formerly used only by Ga chiefs and priests, but since around 1960, figurative coffins have become an integral part of the local funeral culture. [4]
He was a long time considered to be the inventor in the early 1950s of design coffins or fantasy coffins, [1] called Abebuu adekai ("boxes with proverbs") by the Ga people, the dominant ethnic group of the region of Accra. Though, an anthropologist recently published a different story of the origin of the coffins.
Paa Joe with a sandal coffin in collaboration with Regula Tschumi for the Kunstmuseum Berne 2006. Paa Joe was born in 1947 at Akwapim in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Joe began his career with a twelve-year apprenticeship as a coffin artist in the workshop of Kane Kwei (1924–1992) in Teshie. [8] In 1976, Joe started his own business in Nungua.
In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the song became the subject of the "Coffin Dance" internet meme, which involves the remix playing over a group of Ghanaian men dancing while carrying a coffin. This was a common funeral tradition in Ghana and parts of Africa with the idea of sending off deceased loved ones in style, rather than in the ...
Dancing Pallbearers, also known by a variety of names, including Dancing Coffin, Coffin Dancers, Coffin Dance Meme, or simply Coffin Dance, is the informal name given to a group of pallbearers from Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service who are based in the coastal town of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of southern Ghana, although they perform across the country as well as outside ...
Ataa Oko (c. 1919 –2012), sculptor, builder of figurative palanquins, and figurative fantasy coffins; Theodosia Okoh (1922–2015), teacher and designer of Ghana's national flag; Albert Opoku (1915–2002), printmaker, painter, choreographer, and dancer; Zohra Opoku (born 1976), German-born Ghanaian textile artist and photographer
[7] [8] The EP was released on 15 October 2021, with six of their respective videos being premiered on her 4Real Entertainment YouTube channel. [ 9 ] In 2022, she was nominated for Best New Artiste of the Year award and her music video for her song Fine Girl was nominated for Best Music Video of the Year at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2022 ...
The song's music video was directed by Big OJ Films and uploaded to YouTube in September 2013. [19] [20] On February 14, 2013, Efya released "Body", a cover of Chris Brown's single "Don't Judge Me". [21] Efya's debut studio album, Janesis, was released on April 22, 2016. It was initially slated for release in the third quarter of 2013, but ...