Dead Ghanaian Kumasi woman pounds fufu at her funeral(photos)

Information gathered from some Ghanaian netizens indicate the dead Ghanaian woman was a popular 'fufu' chop bar operator in Kumasi who had manned this business for decades, and when she was alive she requested that in the event of her demise they should make her sit on a chair and pound fufu by herself without the help of anyone as the mourners file past her body instead of the usual laying in a coffin.

Fufu (mixture of cooked cassava, yam or cocoyam and plantain pounded together) is a staple food of the natives of Ashanti Region of Ghana with Kumasi as their capital.

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