Ghanaian Funerals

So a Ghanaian funeral is, for the most part, a happy time. Its sad that the person and/or people have passed but they would rather celebrate life and have a big party in their honor than mourn them quietly. When i first came to homestay the weekends were pretty quiet because apparently the chiefs of a lot of the surrounding communities had put a ban on funerals for awhile. Im not sure what the reason was but just judging from seeing them now they do get very loud and people get extremely fired up and rowdy so maybe they were trying to calm everybody down for a bit. They lifted the ban on funerals a couple of weeks ago so now, starting every friday, there are mass amounts of people flooding the streets and there is constant music playing and everyone is wearing black, red or white or a combination of the colors because that is the funeral attire here. Usually when there is a funeral, it is for more than one person. I think it averages between 5-10 people a weekend. So the person or people may have actually passed a long time ago but they wait for a free or scheduled weekend to "celebrate" them. I've heard families waiting months to give their funeral to a family member who has passed. This past weekend there were a ton of people staying at my homestay who were attending a funeral in my village. I have not found out yet who actually died but ill keep researching. But it has been very busy at my household and really nice to meet some of my extended homestay family.