Ghana’s dancing pallbearers starts new campaign: ‘Stay home or dance with us’

The dancing pallbearers from Ghana started a new campaign, ‘stay home or dance with us’. The purpose of this campaign is to spread the awareness to fight against coronavirus pandemic.

Now Benjamin Aidoo, one of the performers of the troupe who leads them, uploaded a video on his twitter accounts in which the pallbearers are seen wearing masks. He said that this was to warn people and extend gratitude to health workers.

From NANA OTAFRIJA to all the doctors in the world 🌍
Thank you 👏🏻
Mention 👇🏻 all the doctors out there with your country flag. #COVIDー19 #CoffinMeme #benjaminaidoo #nanaotafrija #CoffinDance #Doctors pic.twitter.com/OVrv5Ib8pz

— Benjamin Aidoo (@nanaotafrija) May 5, 2020

Social media platforms have been flooded with memes and GIFs of the dancing pallbearers from around the globe and after this social media users start discussing it and mostly appreciated the initiative.

We watch these guys flow across our feeds daily in meme form — but here are the actual Ghana Coffin Dancers — and they’ve made a video to thank doctors… but also warned "Stay at home OR dance with us."

I’m SO here for this.🌎❤️pic.twitter.com/6E7843PneA

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 6, 2020

oh my god his LAUGH https://t.co/hcrh4w4SgZ

— meredith graves (@gravesmeredith) May 6, 2020

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These kings got memed so well that their positive message here was meet with positivity from different languages in the replies. The best part of this 2020 anime by miles! https://t.co/epK4WNhBLX

— DSX🐝🇻🇨 (@DellStarX) May 7, 2020

"Stay at home or you'll dance with us" LOL
SAVAGE but message delivered 👌#coffinDance #coffindancememe https://t.co/Uzk8zrmNEb

— Roqaya (@Ruca_20) May 6, 2020

The Ghanaian dancing pallbearers with visuals of their showy dances while carrying coffins is very viral on social media, they first notices on the internet in 2017. But the music track ‘Astronomia’ was produced by Tony Igy in 2010.