Agboti Yao is NOT dead.

AGBOTI Yao Mawuena, the popular Togolese “Eleboto” musician is alive and kicking in Germany and not dead as has been reported in some media in Accra.

“My son has been in regular touch with his brothers from his base in Germany and I am really surprised that anyone would want to create confusion here by spreading such news,” Mme Akoua Sofon, Agboti’s mother told this reporter last Saturday.


For the past couple of weeks, news has been rife in local showbiz circles in Accra that Agboti Yao, well-known in Ghana for his Akan-lyrics music and fascinating live performances had died in police cells in Togo after he had been allegedly arrested for political reasons.


Narrating to Showbiz how the news of the death of her son reached her at Have, a village about 50 kilometres north-west of Lome and 10 kilometres away from Tsefie, the district capital of Zio, Mme Akoua Sofon said it was about one month ago that a woman in mourning clothes came to report to her that her son, Yao, was dead.

Mme Akoua Sofon said when she asked the woman where the body of her son was, she told her that it was in Lome.


Mme Akoua Sofon said she dressed up to go and see the two brothers of Agboti at Agoenyive, a 10-kilometre town away from Lome. “When I reached the house of my children at Agoenyive with the news they started laughing at me. One of the children even asked me whether I was sick. I replied in the negative and told them that I was serious. They told me not to come to them with such news anymore and then called Agboti to speak with me on phone from Germany.”