Ghanaian Highlife music superstar Daddy Lumba has shared the inspiration behind his megahit titled ‘Ye Ne Wo Sere Kwa’ in an interview posted to his official YouTube channel.  

The song was released “at the end of 2011,” he first pointed out.  

On the inspiration, he began with: “When my mother was alive, she had only one friend and so anytime we went to my hometown, Nsuta-Atonsu, the first person she’d always look for was called Maame Yendow.”

Indicating that the name fascinated him as a boy, he added he was never able to ask for the history behind it because, unlike today, children of those times, by cultural prescription and codes of respect, could not interrupt adults in conversation.

“So after my mother died, during which time I became ill for over 10 years, I always thought to myself that if this particular woman was close, she would have perhaps come to see me,” he narrated.

According to the singer and businessman, during this period of sickness, he kept thinking about the name up until “one afternoon when I was lost in deep thought about my own life – mind you, I had been sick for a long time during this period.”

“I had been bedridden for 5 years without hearing from anyone,” he made a stunning revelation.  

“It was in this period that I understood the name,” the serial hitmaker continued.

“I had initially misheard it as Yenno when it was actually Yen do wo,” he explained.

He outlined possible reasons for the blunder.

“You know when you’re little, there’s a [shallow] way you think about things,” the singer nicknamed DL noted.

“And as musicians, it seems when we sleep, that’s what our minds do, it contemplates things thoroughly,” he added.

This was when, with glee, he carried on elaborating by stating how the eventual discovery of the name’s proper pronunciation and meaning made sense of his predicament; he was in a dire period of sickness with so called loved ones unconcerned.

Born Charles Kwadwo Fosu, he said stressed: “Yen do wo,” to wit in Akan: they do not in fact love you.

“People just smile to you or laugh with you but in truth, they don’t mean it,” he added and in turn explained the title of the record.

He reiterated how people make promises of love and fealty, even to the point of death but one often finds oneself alone and forsaken in their darkest times.

"You'd understand if you were to get sick and be confined to a wheelchair for close to 10 years," he added before saying, "I, Kwadwo Fosu, have been there so if I'm telling you this, believe me."