The funeral dancing pallbearers are one of the unique tradition went viral, the pallbearers are at the centre of a global internet sensation.
Let's find out the history and origin of the Dancing Pallbearers also known as Dancing Coffin and the Coffin Dance.
The Ghanaian dancing pallbearers are led by Benjamin Aidoo, who started the group as a regular pallbearer service. Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones off in style. The dancing pallbearers first rose to prominence in 2017 when they were featured in a BBC News report.
Though the group initially gained worldwide attention though a BBC feature story in 2017, the footage became part of an Internet meme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. BBC Africa's Sulley Lansah met up with the leader of the troupe to get his reaction to his new-found fame.
In April 2020, the group became the subject of a darkly comedic internet meme when videos of people suffering various mishaps, followed by clips of the pallbearers dancing with coffins implicitly the victims of the preceding clips, were widely uploaded to Reddit, YouTube and TikTok.
Many uses of this meme are commonly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, which was ongoing when the meme became popular on social media.
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Video Credits:
BBC News: https://youtube.com/bbcnews
BBC Africa: https://youtube.com/bbcafrica
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