Funeral business in Africa
Africans are willing to spend large sums on luxurious funerals for their relatives, and they are not alone in this. But Africa has a very high death rate, so each African, on average, has to organize a funeral more often than anyone else in the world. The funeral business in Africa brings a lot of income to its owners.
1. Relatives of the deceased walk in a funeral procession near a cemetery in Lagos, Nigeria. (AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS)
2. A street vendor walks past a fish-shaped coffin outside a workshop in Accra, Ghana. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
3. Coffins in the form of a planer and fish in a workshop in Accra, Ghana. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
4. Worker makes a coffin in the form of a film projector in a workshop in Accra, Ghana. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
5. The mistress of the bureau of funeral services stands near the new coffins in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
6. A worker makes a fish-shaped coffin at a workshop in Accra, Ghana. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
7. A coffin in the shape of a film projector stands in a workshop in Accra, Ghana. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
8. A man stands at the entrance to his funeral parlor near the morgue in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
9. A worker makes a coffin in a workshop in Accra, Ghana. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
10. A carpenter attaches a wreath to a coffin in a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
11. A woman sits outside her funeral parlor in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
12. Advertising funeral services at the entrance to the funeral home in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
13. A woman sews upholstery for coffins in a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
14. Carpenter dusts off the silk upholstery of the coffin in a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
15. Relatives of the deceased came to the workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, to pick up the coffin. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
16. Carpenter makes a coffin in a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
17. A sign outside a funeral parlor in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
18. Joiner makes a coffin in a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
19. A sign at a funeral parlor in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
20. Coffins are sold at a funeral home in Soweto, South Africa. (SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS)
21. Undertaker works in his workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. (AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS)
22. A sign at a funeral parlor in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
23. Tailors brought burial clothes to a workshop near the mortuary in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
24. The undertaker works in his workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. (AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS)
25. Funeral procession in Lagos, Nigeria. (AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS)
26. A man sits at a table in a funeral home near the mortuary in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)
27. Joiners make coffins outside the workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. (NOOR KHAMIS/REUTERS)
Keywords: Business | Coffin | Funeral | Funeral services | Death