Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a privat

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If weddings are the most lavish events in many parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant oc