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A family buried their prostitute daughter in a coffin shaped like a man’s genitals has been shared thousands of times in Africa.

A post published by a Kenyan Facebook page on July 23, 2020 shared two images of a coffin shaped like a Penis surrounded by a crowd. One year later, the post is recirculating online attracting new comments.

“A family buried their daughter (prostitute) in a casket resembling what she liked most,” reads the Facebook post, which has been shared more than 2,300 times.

This tweet from an account that describes itself as a Zimbabwean online news feed shared a similar claim but purported that the deceased was a woman who had died during intercourse.

Why on earth will someone be buried in this d shaped coffin? ? pic.twitter.com/766tkkc7Z4

— Sel The Bomb (@SelormTali) July 23, 2020

Different Funeral

A journalist who covered the story told AFP Fact Check that the man, whose funeral took place in 2020, had conducted circumcisions for several decades, locally known as a wanzam.

A reverse image search showed media reports (here and here) indicating that the casket was the final resting place of a man from Ghana who practiced traditional male circumcisions.

An online search revealed that when images of the casket began spreading on the internet in July 2020, it led to the publication of articles here and here claiming the person buried in the coffin was a woman sex worker.

However, this Ghanian television station interviewed William Kpalpo Allotey, the brother of the deceased, John Nii Addo Allotey, and he confirmed that the family’s choice of coffin was intended to honor the decades-long work of his brother.

“In our community, the profession you are involved in, the type of work you do, is what we use to design the casket used for your burial. For a fisherman, we design a fish for you and since this man was a wanzam, we designed a human sexual organ for the burial,” Allotey said during the interview with Television CK.

Jeffries Kwabena Sintim-Koree, a Ghanian journalist and founder of Television CK, confirmed the story to AFP Fact Check.

“The man was a wanzam … He was the main one in charge of the circumcision of boys in that community for about five decades. He circumcised over 2,000 penises,” Kwabena said.

Fancy Coffins

Coffin designs in Ghana can be personalized based on a client’s life, dreams, passions, profession and status (see reports here, here and here).

“Designing fancy coffins started with my grandfather in 1951,” Isaac Tettehfio, who works in the coffin business in Teshie-Nungua, Ghana, told AFP Fact Check. “Now, it’s my father controlling the business. We do a lot of designs; animals, cars, airplanes. It cost about 2,000 to 3,000 Ghana cedis (about $300 to $500); an airplane in particular costs 3,500 cedis; a microphone 2,500 cedis. We have made a canoe that was exported.”

Tettehfio, who runs an Instagram page showcasing the business’ fancy coffins, said that while he has designed penis-shaped coffins before, he does not recall making one for a sex worker.

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