[1] Alex Tettey-Enyo was born at Akuse in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
[citation needed] He started his first teaching job at the Yilo State School at Somanya in 1958.
After his university education, during which he was President of the national socialist students' organisation (Ghanaso), he joined a group of students from the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute who went to the GDR's central party school in Berlin for extended study.
[4] In 2009, President John Atta Mills appointed Tettey-Enyo as Minister for Education in his government.
[5] Tettey-Enyo's term as minister ended in 2011 following the cabinet reshuffle by President Mills.