Tag Archives: CORPSES

Africa is renowned for having intriguing customs and cultures. But when it comes to the deceased, many African societies avoid them and even regard talking to them as improper. The Chewa Community, the largest ethnic community in Malawi and a Bantu people of central and southern Africa, do not share …

Floods have destroyed more than 1,500 graves at a cemetery in the central Nigerian town of Mariga in Niger state. More than 500 graves have been swept away by the floods in the past week alone. The chief imam of the town, Alhassan Musa Na’ibi, told the BBC about 1,000 …

At daytime, all seems normal in the towns that make up both the Manya Krobo and Yilo Krobo districts of the Eastern Region of Ghana, but when night dawns, even the chirping sounds of birds tell the depth of the rot going on. The darkness that has enveloped these communities …

The Police Hospital has planned a mass burial for some 250 unidentified and unclaimed bodies as part of a routine measure to decongest the hospital’s mortuary. Before that exercise, the police has urged the public to contact the Pathology Department of the hospital for identification of persons who may not …

South African couple, Portia and Bellium Tjale have put their late son’s funeral event on hold after they discovered that his manhood is missing. Reports say the family claimed that their son’s body was mutilated and violated at the funeral parlour. To this end, they refused to bury their disfigured son and have also …

Several bereaved families preserving their dead at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) on Monday thronged the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital to withdraw their corpses. They feared the pending strike of mortuary workers will deal a devastating blow to their funeral plans and in the worse case, the shape of …