Daughter’s quest to solve father’s 30-year-old murder mystery · Who killed Sylvester Kofi Williams, and why?
The Queen Mother says there is no closure until she know who killed her father, and why. The Queen Mother hold vigil at the site of her father's killing. Sylvester Kofi Williams was a distinguished lawyer and politician. JACK ZIMBA Lusaka “THIS is the exact spot where my father’s body lay when he was shot dead. It was lying in its blood for three hours,” said Sylvia Golden Hope quietly, almost meditatively as if the body was still lying there. She was wearing an ankle-length peach dress and a headdress sequinned with cowries, and a tingling miniature bell dangling on her chest, giving her an enigmatic look like a goddess. She also insisted on her official title: Saa Pog’Naa Yaa Asantewaa Ababio II or, simply, Queen Mother. She sees herself as the reincarnation of a venerated and fearless ancient Ghanaian matriarch, Yaa Asantewaa I, Warrior Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, who fought against the British at the turn of the 20 th