[1][2][3][4] Addow-Obeng obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1981.
He moved to the Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya that same year and was promoted to full professorship in New Testament Studies and Theology in 1996.
After years working outside Ghana, he returned in 1997 to the University of Cape Coast to head the Department of Religion.
The release said Prof Addow-Obeng had also taught at Central University College, Miotso, Ghana, where he had spent his sabbatical in 2008–2010.
[citation needed] He has thirty-three (33) years experience at the university level and is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.