ATLANTIC CITY - Funerals in the West African country of Ghana are loud and lavish and steeped in tradition. The people revere their dead, sometimes waiting months to finally inter a body. Funeral announcements are listed in newspapers under "homecomings."
When members of the Ghanaian Association of Atlantic City experience the death of another member, they come together to raise money for a funeral here, and then raise even more to send the body of the deceased back to Ghana.
"Should something happen to any of us, we can help one another," said Sharon Asamoah, the group's vice president. [Read more]
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