Posted on 01/24/2025 5:49:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
For more than 50 years, one family has dedicated itself to caring for the biggest graveyard in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna - much to the gratitude of other residents who do not fancy the job of dealing with the dead.
Until a few weeks ago, they did it for no formal pay - digging graves, washing corpses and tending to the vast cemetery, receiving only small donations from mourners for their labour.
The vast Tudun Wada Cemetery was set aside for the Muslim residents of the city by the authorities a century ago.
The Abdullahi family became involved in the 1970s when two brothers - Ibrahim and Adamu - began working there.
The two siblings now lie beneath the soil in the graveyard, and their sons have become the cemetery's main custodians.
"Their teachings to us, their children, was that God loves the service and would reward us for it even if we don't get any worldly gains," Ibrahim Abdullahi's oldest son Magaji told the BBC when asked why they had chosen to continue as unpaid undertakers.
The 58-year-old is now in charge at Tudun Wada - shepherding operations and the 18 members of staff or until recently - volunteers.
He and his two younger cousins - Abdullahi, 50, and Aliyu, 40, (Adamu Abdullahi's sons) - are the three full-time workers, all reporting in by 07:00 for a 12-hour shift, seven days a week.
They always need to be on call because, according to Muslim rites, a burial should be organised within a few hours of someone's death.
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I thought this was a Go Fund me pitch, but the actors, they are all a super extended family from Nigeria so you never know.
Mr fine American, I am from nigeria and I bury people, lots of people, but one man, he was a very rich man woke up and told me that he made a deal with the Devil.
He had miraculously been healed of all his ailments and said the deal was that he would give his mega fortunes to me, and I would find a judas goat body and bury it in my grave.
I kindly need your help to move some of these billions of your US dollars sent to the devils agent Z back to your country to help fight facism and Nazi people who dare to think they can be free from domination
Have they heard of a backhoe?
Trying to humanize the stabby people?
Pretty lame.
If Irishmen were black, they would be born in Nigeria.
Many Nigerians have the gift of blarney; weaving fascinating, captivating and most compelling tales.
Isn’t it mostly christians being killed by radical islamists over there?
They pre-paid with their lives.
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