Foreword / Jan Vansina -- Funerals in Africa : An Introduction / Michael Jindra and Joël Noret -- ch. 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change : A Review of Momentous Transformations across a ...
In South Africa, funeral cover is the most popular type of insurance, with approximately 22 million adults – 48% of the ...
Across the continent, from the deserts of Namibia to the forests of Ghana and the shores of Tanzania, one phenomenon remains strangely consistent. Africans are most united at funerals. In those ...
Illness, death, and burial in Africa. In his brilliant little book about global income distribution, The Haves and the Have Nots (2011), the World Bank economist Branko Milanovic claims that ...
"From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "home-going" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely ...
Nelson Mandela will be laid to rest on Sunday in an elaborate ceremony combining a state funeral and all its military pomp with the traditional burial rituals of his Xhosa clan to ensure he has an ...
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