Ga-Adangbe Tribe & Fantasy Coffins
Although both languages are derived from a common proto-Ga-Adangbe ancestral language, modern Ga and Adangbe are mutually unintelligible. The modern Adangbe include the people of Shai, La, Ningo, Kpone, Osudoku, Krobo, Gbugble, and Ada, who speak different dialects.
The Ga also include the Ga-Mashie groups occupying neighborhoods in the central part of Accra, and other Gaspeakers who migrated from Akwamu, Anecho in Togo, Akwapim, and surrounding areas.
Ga people are also well known, to have invented the "Fantasy Coffins" of Ghana.
The Ga also include the Ga-Mashie groups occupying neighborhoods in the central part of Accra, and other Gaspeakers who migrated from Akwamu, Anecho in Togo, Akwapim, and surrounding areas.
Ga people are also well known, to have invented the "Fantasy Coffins" of Ghana.
In the West African country of Ghana, a tribe called the Ga is making its name in the business of fantasy coffins.
The coffins come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from air planes and fishes, cars to Coke bottles and cell phones. A Ghanian funeral is no small affair, and many families in costal wish to bury their deceased loved ones in something that reflects their life and trade.
The "Fantasy Coffins," as the trade has come to be known, is a relatively new tradition. About 50 years ago, as the story goes, one Ata Owoo was well-known for making magnificent chairs to transport the village chief on poles or the shoulders of minions. When Owoo had finished one particularly elaborate creation, an eagle, a neighboring chief wanted one too, this time in the shape of a cocoa pod, a major crop in Ghana. However, the chief next door died before the bean was finished, and so it became his coffin. Thus, a tradition was born.
The coffins come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from air planes and fishes, cars to Coke bottles and cell phones. A Ghanian funeral is no small affair, and many families in costal wish to bury their deceased loved ones in something that reflects their life and trade.
The "Fantasy Coffins," as the trade has come to be known, is a relatively new tradition. About 50 years ago, as the story goes, one Ata Owoo was well-known for making magnificent chairs to transport the village chief on poles or the shoulders of minions. When Owoo had finished one particularly elaborate creation, an eagle, a neighboring chief wanted one too, this time in the shape of a cocoa pod, a major crop in Ghana. However, the chief next door died before the bean was finished, and so it became his coffin. Thus, a tradition was born.
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