The nationality of legendary highlife musician Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, has come under scrutiny at a Kumasi High Court.
He was born on September 29, 1964, to Johnson Kwadwo Fosuh and Ama Saa, also known as Comfort Gyamfi, at Nsuta in the Ashanti Region.
Both of his parents were teachers. Charles Kwadwo Fosuh attended Juaben Senior High School in the Ashanti Region, where he studied agricultural science and was described by his teachers as a brilliant student.
Daddy Lumba discovered his musical talent while in senior high school in the 1980s and later relocated to Germany in 1996, where his music career flourished.
He and his wife, Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, contracted a civil ordinance marriage in 2004 in Bornheim, Germany.
His mother, a spiritual pillar in his life for whom he composed and performed many songs, passed away at the age of 55 on December 21, 2001, at the Military Hospital in Kumasi. Charles Kwadwo Fosuh died at the age of 60 at the Bank Hospital in Accra.
The matter of his nationality arose during proceedings of a civil suit initiated by Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, who is asking the Kumasi High Court to recognise her as the only surviving wife and sole widow entitled to perform widowhood rites at the late musician’s funeral.
She is also seeking to restrain Priscilla Ofori, also known as Odo Broni, from claiming to be the late musician’s wife.
During cross-examination, counsel for the applicant, William Kusi, questioned Abusuapanin Kofi Owusu, the head of the Ekuona family at Parkoso and the first defendant in the case, on the late musician’s nationality at the time of his death.
Abusuapanin Kofi Owusu testified that Daddy Lumba was a Ghanaian at the time of his death.
However, Counsel Kusi suggested that the late musician might have held German nationality instead.
The court is expected to deliver its ruling on the case this Friday.
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