A Celebration of Life in Death
The Ga People
The Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in the West African nation of Ghana. It is part of the Dangme ethnic group. The Ga people are grouped as part of the
Ga-Dangme ethnolinguistic group.
The Ga-Adangbe people inhabit mostly the Greater Accra Plains. Some are found in the Eastern Region at Akuse, Somaya, Dodowa, Akwapim, Akwamu and surrounding areas in Ghana. Others live in the Anecho area in Togo. The modern day Adangbe include the people of Osu, Shai, La, Ningo, Kpone, Osudoku, Krobo, Gbugble, Ada and Agotime who speak similar dialects.
The Ga also include the Ga-Mashie groups occupying neighborhoods in the central part of Accra, and other Ga speakers who migrated from Akwamu, Anecho in Togo, Akwapim, and surrounding areas.
There are about 2,000,000 Ga-Adangbe speakers, making up about 8% of Ghana's population. Most Ga live in the southeastern coastal region of the country, around the capital of Accra, which the Ga founded in the 1500s as a trading port. The traditional Ga kingdom of Nkran gives Accra its name. Nkran state has been ruled by a succession of kings known as Ga Mantse since its founding in 1510.
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Ghana in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)
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Buried Spirit: Incredible Coffins of Ghana
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Airplane Coffin
(photo by Laura Padgett)
Videos of Ga Coffins
Ga Coffin Links
- eShopAfrica.com
- Purchase a coffin or a chest from these Ga carpenters. Custom-made six foot coffins, three foot chests, or smaller table top or desk top chests.
- NPR : Ghana's Coffins Deliver a Colorful Sendoff
- For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funeral processions feature brightly colored coffins shaped like cars, sewing machines or cigarettes -- honoring the dead by celebrating the way they lived.
- Coffins From Ghana
- For the Ga tribe in coastal Ghana, funerals are a time of mourning, but also of celebration. The Ga people believe that when their loved ones die, they move on into another life -- and the Ga make sure they do so in style. They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived.
- Fantasy Coffins from Ghana
- Meticulously detailed and based on objects of significance to the deceased, such coffins are an important aspect of the burial ritual.
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- BevsPaper BevsPaper Sep 6, 2009 @ 4:05 pm
- Fascinating topic!
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- OhMe OhMe Jul 18, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
- This is amazing. The closest thing I have seen to anything like this is Clemson Fans being buried in Orange Coffins. lol
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- aj2008 aj2008 Jul 18, 2009 @ 7:57 am
- What an unusual and fascinating lens! I wonder if any Lensmasters will opt for a Squid coffin?
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe May 30, 2009 @ 11:55 am
- Very interesting lens. I'm glad I found it.
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- Joan4 Joan4 May 30, 2009 @ 11:18 am
- fascinating!! for me? cremation for sure! but this is fascinating to read! Wow!
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