[3] He served in various capacities in many institutions, including the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences as its president and the West African Examinations Council as its chairman.
He was educated at Achimota College and St Peter's Hall, now St Peter's College, University of Oxford, England,[6] where he read history and geography, majoring in social and political geography, and graduated in 1949.
[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][excessive citations] His teaching began at the Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong.
He was a member of the UNESCO International Advisory Committee on Humid Tropics Research from 1961 to 1963.
In 1961, he was made a member of the National Planning Commission of Ghana, serving in this capacity for three years.
In 1967, he was a member of the Ghana delegation at the United Nations Conference on Geographical Names, hosted in Geneva.
He was a member of the Ghana delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in 1976.
[8][12] That same year, he was Alternate Leader of the Ghana Delegation to the United Nations Conference in Vancouver.
In 1980, he was a member of the Presidential Task Force on Investments of Ghana and the National Council for Higher Education from 1975 to 1983.
[34][35] Some of his works include: While at the University of Oxford, he was awarded the Henry Oliver Beckit Memorial Prize for geography.