[1] She was her country's high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Nigeria and ambassador to West Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the European Economic Community.
[1][8] She attended Fort Hare University, also in South Africa, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree as well as a postgraduate diploma in education.
[7][11] She was appointed to the post of high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Nigeria and ambassador to West Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the European Economic Community from 1970 to 1974.
[7][12][13][14] During her time as High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, she chaired the fifth Caroline Haslett Memorial Lecture at the Royal Society of Arts.
[7] Run by the Women's Engineering Society, Letitia Obeng, then Director of Freshwater Research Institute of Aquatic Biology in Ghana spoke on 'Nation Building & the African Woman'.
[13] In 2013, she was the headline speaker at Botswana's International Day of Older Persons held in the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, saying "We want to be 'the aged in counsel and the young in action ... Let us, as the elderly not be relegated to being dinosaurs but utilize our knowledge and hard earned wisdom to not only increase our relevance and longevity in society, but also increase the contact between generations, bridging the gap between young and old.