Kwame Dzokoto

Kwame Dzokoto died on Thursday 22 October 2026, aged 51. Early that morning he was appearing as a panellist on the morning show of Owass Radio in Tarkwa, in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region, when he collapsed. GBC reported that in the station's livestream he appeared to struggle for breath and handed a bottle of water to another guest before the broadcast was cut off. He was rushed to a hospital in Tarkwa, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

His death was confirmed by Kirk Mensah, Western Regional communication officer of the National Democratic Congress. Only weeks earlier, in September 2026, he had dismissed rumours of his death on B.E. TV, saying he was recovering from health problems. No medical cause of death had been made public, and funeral arrangements were yet to be announced.

Seth Kwame Dzokoto was born in 1975. Graphic Showbiz reported that he hailed from the Volta Region, while he described growing up partly in Takoradi, where he lived with his parents. There he fell in love with the Takoradi dialect of Fante, with its sprinkling of local jargon, which he later said was the source of the witty phrases that became his trademark, such as "Edziban a dzidzi".

He was educated at Tarkwa Secondary School and Cape Coast Technical, then went on to the Nautical College at Nungua. While already working in radio in Kumasi he studied for a Bachelor of Arts in business administration at the Kumasi campus of the University of Education, Winneba.

Dzokoto began in radio and remained devoted to it throughout his life, saying in 2026 that he loved radio because listeners connect with a presenter without seeing him. He worked at Skyy Power FM in Takoradi and was a drive time host at Hello FM in Kumasi, and he became widely known as a voice in radio commercials.

On television he became a household name as Judge Koboo in Efiewura, the TV3 sitcom about a landlord and his tenants. He went on to host Edziban, a TV3 food and tourism programme that visited food joints and homes across Ghana to explore local cuisine. He also appeared in films including For Girls, Monster, Wazenger and Fatal Lust, and in the comedy series Osumesi. Shortly before his death he attended the media launch of The 70 Slate, a three-film collaboration by Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Peter Sedufia to mark Ghana's 70th anniversary of independence in 2027, and was named among its cast.

In politics, he was the National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for Tarkwa-Nsuaem in the 2016 general election, losing to George Mireku Duker of the New Patriotic Party. He later said he intended to study law. In August 2025 he graduated from the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College with a master's degree in defence and international politics, saying he had been inspired by hearing Professor Vladimir Antwi-Danso analyse the Russia and Ukraine war on GBC radio.

Graphic Showbiz reported in an earlier profile that Dzokoto was married with two children. He lived for many years in the Western Region and kept a public profile in Tarkwa, where he had stood for Parliament and regularly appeared on local radio. In September 2026 he said publicly that he was dealing with high blood pressure and diabetes, and thanked the businessman Ibrahim Mahama for supporting his surgery abroad.

Dzokoto is remembered as one of the most familiar faces and voices in Ghanaian popular entertainment, above all as Judge Koboo in Efiewura and as the host who made Edziban a celebration of Ghanaian food and daily life. His career spanned radio, television, film, comedy and advertising voice-overs, and his witty catchphrases drawn from Fante street slang became part of everyday speech for many viewers and listeners.