[3] Allassani was born around 1906 at Gumo a suburb of the Kumbungu District about 9 km from Tamale in the Northern Region, Ghana then a territory of Togoland under the trusteeship of the United Kingdom.
[citation needed] He received his elementary education at Catholic schools in Tamale, Elmina, Sunyani, and finally at St. Peter's in Kumasi.
On 1 April 1951, he was appointed ministerial secretary (deputy minister) to the ministry of development and on 20 June 1954 he was appointed Minister for Education, officially taking office on 21 June that year.
[8][9] In 1955 and 1956 he argued for the integration of Northern Togoland with the Gold Coast before the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations.
He served in this capacity until 1 January when he was appointed chairman of the State Paints Corporation.