Strange jobs: Getting paid to cry for someone else's deceased

Dancing, singing and crying is all a part of the centuries-old tradition at Ghanaian funerals.

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00:00I've been selling lejiwada akwa for 33 years.

00:25I've been selling lejiwada akwa for 33 years.

00:45I don't know, I have no idea!

01:00So that's why I didn't know it was like that.

01:07It's hard. It's a difficult situation.

01:09I met a young man in the neighborhood.

01:12He just wanted to help us.

01:15So I thought that maybe he would know.

01:18And he told me that I wouldn't get through.

01:20So I decided to go to him.

01:23And he helped us.

01:30Oh, I would like to become a doctor.

01:39I would like to be a doctor and retire.

01:43I would like to retire.

01:44I will retire.

01:45I would like to retire.

01:46I would retire.

01:47I would retire.