JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI (Reuters) - From fish-shaped coffins to slaughtered bulls, funerals in Africa are lavish affairs, providing a lucrative opportunity for insurance companies looking for business in ...

Foreword / Jan Vansina -- Funerals in Africa : An Introduction / Michael Jindra and Joël Noret -- ch. 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change : A Review of Momentous Transformations across a ...

In South Africa, funeral cover is the most popular type of insurance, with approximately 22 million adults – 48% of the ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Funeral Services and Related Activities in South Africa 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. A global research study identified South Africa ...

Illness, death, and burial in Africa. In his brilliant little book about global income distribution, The Haves and the Have Nots (2011), the World Bank economist Branko Milanovic claims that ...

"From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "home-going" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely ...

EAST LONDON, South Africa (AP) — The deaths of 21 teenagers in a nightclub tragedy is a crime and South African officials must increase steps to prevent alcohol from being illegally sold to youths, ...

ULUNDI, South Africa (Reuters) -Thousands of mourners gathered in South Africa's eastern town of Ulundi on Saturday for the state funeral of veteran politician and Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

EAST LONDON, South Africa — More than a thousand grieving family and community members are attending the funeral in South Africa's East London for 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a ...

By Hafsa Obeng, GNA Accra, Nov. 25, GNA – Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, President, Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) in the United States, has appealed for international support to stop the ...

Florida State University will hold a vigil Friday evening for the victims of an on-campus shooting that killed two people and injured six others on Thursday. Read full article: FSU to hold vigil ...