What Is Wrong With Us: We can find money to bury the dead, but not to keep the living well

There are few occasions in African communal life as emotionally powerful as a funeral. When death visits, families gather from considerable distances, friends contribute without being asked, and communities organise with a discipline that would impress any project manager. Food is prepared, chairs appear in their hundreds, and grief is transformed into collective remembrance. African funerals rightly remind us that no human being should disappear as though they never mattered.