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Dancing Pallbearers are led by Benjamin Aidoo, who started the group as a regular pallbearer service in 2003. He later had the idea of adding choreography to their pallbearing work. Extra fees are charged for dancing with the coffin during a funeral.
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report. The third video, which depicted pallbearers accidentally dropping a coffin during their dance, was first posted by
Facebook user "Bigscout Nana Prempeh" on May 2, 2019, and gained over 2,900 reactions, 4,600 shares and 350,000 views in one year.
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imitated the group's dance carrying a coffin on their shoulders, encouraging the community to stay home to stem the spread of the
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of southern Ghana, although they perform across the country as well as outside Ghana. The founder and leader of the group is
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On March 30, 2020, a YouTuber named DigiNeko "Matthew
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