[1][2] Edward Martinus Lartey Odjidja was born at Sra, a small town near Somanya on 16 October 1900.
[2] His mother gave him lessons at home until he turned ten and was enrolled at the Basel Mission Junior School in Odumase, Krobo.
W. T. Odjidja ordered that all students at Christianborg from Krobo, Shai and Ada areas should be sent to the specially built Bana Hills Presbyterian Middle Boarding School.
Odjidja undertook and was awarded the University of London's Diploma in Education whilst on an eighteen-month stay away in the United Kingdom.
[4][2] In April 1952, he announced his decision to retire from the educational field so as to serve the Presbyterian church as a minister at a Presbytery gathering at Anum.
After serving as a pastor to congregations in Odumase, Bisa and Kumasi, he was elected the ninth Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 1959.
[9][10] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.