Ga

The Ga, or Ga-Adangbe, occupy the area of ​​the capital Accra and it was precisely this population who settled in this area and founded the city as a port to trade with the Portuguese 500 years ago.

The Ga have numerous traditional religious beliefs, even if colonialism has brought and spread Christianity in Ghana; some populations like the Ga have created a mix between the archaic religions and the new beliefs.

The Ga are famous for the coffins they make; families believe that life transcends death and that the deceased continues with his profession in the afterlife, so the idea is that the dead must be buried in something that represents the work they did while they were alive, to remember where they come from and what they left off.

In fact, they make coffins of various shapes, such as a car, an airplane, a boat but also in the shape of animals such as the lion, the elephant or various fishes and, ultimately, also in the form of a cell phone or other technological objects.