The Ghana Pallbearers Coffin Dance Memes

The troupe of Ghanaian pallbearers went viral of their flamboyant coffin carrying dances, garnering millions of views.

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.

SOURCE

Video Credits:
BBC News: https://youtube.com/bbcnews
BBC Africa: https://youtube.com/bbcafrica

Related Weird News:
Chinese Fetus Soup Hoax
Disturbing 'Momo Challenge' Hoax Spreads
Devil Baby Attacks New York City
Mysterious City In The Clouds Over China
America’s Creepy Clown Craze, Explained
Hurricane Matthew 'Skull' In Eerie Satellite Image
Artificial Intelligence May Kill Us All By 2050
Rise of the Sex Robots - Mini Documentary
How German Sounds Compared To Other Languages
Beauty Vlog 'You Look Disgusting' Goes Viral
You Might Be Buying Trash On Amazon
Can I Squeeze Your Boobs
Fap Guy Calls Deaf Video Service 4,000 Times
Video Relay Service For Deaf - Phone Sex Scene
Jonny TV - Masturbation Prank On Video Chat
The Indian Head Shakes Explained
The Ghana Pallbearers Coffin Dance Memes
The 'Hollywood Graveyard' Tour
Meteorite Hits Russian Urals Video Compilation
Tianjin Explosion & Aftermath Video Compilation
The Ultimate Horror Video Compilation
Top 10s Creepiest Urban Legends Compilation
Short Film: Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Stop Webcam Child Sex Tourism
The True Story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Worst Road Rage Incidents Of All Time

Related Posts: #Ghana - #WTF - #WeirdNews

Chinese Medical Team Helps Ghana Deaf School

Chinese medical team offers free screening to the Deaf school for students and staff in Ghana.

MAMPONG -- New China TV channel on YouTube share the News in English subtitles - a nine-member Chinese medical team on Saturday provided free physical screening to teachers, students of the Demonstration School for the Deaf in Akuapim-Mampong, some 35 km north of the Ghana capital, Accra.

Subscribe at New Chine TV: https://youtube.com/channel/newchinatv

Related Posts: #DeafChinese - #DeafCommunity - #DeafNews - #SignLanguage

The First African Deaf University In Ghana

Deaf News: Ghana will become the second in the world to host Deaf University after America’s Gallaudet University in Washington.

ACCRA, GHANA -- The first ever University for the Deaf in Africa is to be constructed in Ghana to simplify education and communication in sign language on the continent.

The University, which is expected to be operational in about two years, will be situated on the Techiman campus of the Valley View University in the Brong Ahafo region.

The former president of the European Union for the Deaf, Jean-Francois Labes, made the disclosure during a courtesy call on the management of Excellence in Broadcasting Network (EIB) - operators of Starr 103.5 FM and a host of other media houses.

He said the University will bridge the gap between the hearing and the hearing impaired as far as “education is concerned.”

According to him, the facility will run as a mainstream university which will have faculties such as data processing, business, law and medicine as well as vocational departments among others. The University will be opened to all Deaf students in Africa.

J. F. Labes, who communicates in the sign language, told Starrfmonline.com he bought into the idea after officials of Mieux Vivre Foundation mooted it to him since he had helped establish schools for the Deaf in France – his home country – and in Morocco.

He was full of praise for the “exceptional” Vice Chancellor of Valley View University Prof. Robert Osei-Bonsu, who immediately offered a 50-acre space to construct the University for the Deaf. He stressed that the university is going to be autonomous, despite being on the campus of Valley View University.

“I’m so impressed that we have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),” J. F. Labes, who is also the president of Unisda said. “We chose Ghana because it is a stable country and peaceful since it is the first in sub-Saharan Africa to attain independence.”

He announced that Ghana will become the second in the world to host such facility after America’s Gallaudet University in Washington.

A sponsors’ gathering is expected to be held in September in Ghana to appeal for funds for the ground-breaking initiative. Stakeholders including MPs, officials in the education sector and office of the president are scheduled to grace the occasion.

“We want to make sure that everyone including the Deaf will have equal access to education. Persons with hearing impairments are more in Africa and in Ghana alone they make up 7% of the population. There is the need for education for those people hence our resolve to come up with the University,” he noted.

He noted that all stakeholders including the schools of the Deaf in Ghana, national association of the Deaf have all been involved in the project.

Accompanying J. F. Labes to EIB Network were officials of Evanmike Multi Company Limited – the firm helping with negotiations – Aaron N’Kiambi-Yavanga, Akouate Fianou, the secretary general and vice president respectively of Mieux Vivre Foundation and Sara Minneboo, the interpreter.

SOURCE - StarRfmonline