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Meet African professional mourners who get paid to cry at funerals

by Staff writer

They are called professional mourners and they get paid to cry at funerals.

The practice of hiring mourners is not new in Africa — in fact, in places like Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya, professional mourning has grown into a flourishing business that brings in a lot of money.

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Daniel Nkado is a Nigerian writer and social researcher whose work examines Black identity, racism, institutional inequality, social power and belonging. He is the founder of DNB Stories Africa. Read more about Daniel, including his research methodology and full biography, here.

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