Araba Botchwey, the daughter of one of Ghana’s most favourite actors, Kofi Middleton-Mends, who passed away on Monday, has disclosed that her late father died of kidney failure.
The veteran actor’s first child disclosed in an interview with Myjoyonline.com on Wednesday morning that her late father had been battling kidney disease for some time now and was on dialysis when he passed away.
Kofi Middleton-Mends starred in successful local and international productions and was known for his role in the 1968 hit, ‘No Tears for Ananse’ and ‘Grey Dawn’ (2015).
One of his most recent mainstream efforts was in Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s ‘Grew Dawn’, where he played the role of an ailing politician whose tax issues meant trouble for his family.
The late actor, according to his daughter, had been in and out of hospital for the past two years and was rushed to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Monday dawn where he passed away at 4:00pm that same day.
The respected actor, well-known for his catch phrase, ‘Sarah, My Socks’ and the television commercial for Key Soap, had been off the television screens for some years now.
The late Kofi Middleton Mends was a lecturer at the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and the University of Ghana. He stopped lecturing about two years ago.
Araba Botchwey said that one of her fond memories of her late father was his attention to the use of words and the English language.
“Whenever he tells you bring that brown dictionary, then know that you have pronounced a word wrongly,” she recalled.
Kofi Middleton Mends who died at the age of 77 was survived by a wife and three children. He had five children, but two had passed on.