Asumda begun his early education at Gambaga Primary School in 1931.
In 1946 Asumda took a teaching appointment at Zebilla and taught there until 1951 when he decided to venture politics.
[9] In 1951 Asumda was nominated to represent the Kusasi West constituency in the National Assembly.
He was buried in Kusanaba a town in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region.
[17] In 2006 the then vice president Alhaji Aliu Mahama launched the Asumda foundation for education.