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Burial of the old one is often an expensive affair In Yoruba land. When an old person dies, it is not mournful, but of celebration marked with dancing and feasting particularly when the old person is survived by successful grown up children. All the families, contemporaries and the entire community often join hands to perform the last rites for such old person. The children and grand-children would join hands in the performance of several days’ traditional burial ceremonies held to give the deceased old mother or father a befitting last rites. As one traditional performer is departing another one is replacing, this is a contributory factor to the fun enjoyed in the smaller Yoruba communities.
Video recording example of traditional burial of the elderly held in Iboropa Akoko, a small town near Ikare-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria are here below.
