Black is merely a skin colour not a way of life. First I'll start by disputing the wrong notion that Blacks are Africans or Africans are blacks. That's not true as quite a number of Africans are white skinned and many blacks are not Africans.

In some parts in Africa, a mans burial seems to be celebrated rather than mourned. Many in defence of this, say its due to religious belief but that's not the case as the European and American counterparts of those religious sects don't practice such. Others say its culture. Be it religion or culture, it doesn't annul the fact that the practice is faulty.

On a man's burial in some parts of Africa, music is played, attendees dance and family members spend extravagantly to lay the dead to rest.

This wouldn't have been a case If the dead before they die received such financial assistance from their family relations. The families tend to overlook their relatives even while on a sick bed or in hardship but will run down to assist financially when their relatives kick the bucket.

Why do we offer so much respect to the dead than the living. Why will a family spend over 2million naira to bury the dead that they never catered for when he was alive.

A story has it that a family in Anambra State preferred to discontinue further treatment of their sibling in other to save enough funds to bury him when he dies. This is madness!

We tend to care much about how expensive a burial is or would be rather than how stress free, living should be. The living they say will bury the dead, not money!

Let's offer help to the needy when they're still alive and not cater for them when they've given up their ghost.