He entered Tetteh's Business College and Scriba Commercial Institute, he obtained a group diploma in Secretaryship at the London School of Accountancy in 1955.

He had an extra mural education at the University College of the Gold Coast then later studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, on ICFTU Scholarship which took him to the British TUC, the French Trade Union Headquarters, Force Ouvriere, Paris, and the Office of the Belgian Workers Movement Brussels, LC.

At the 13th Annual Conference, in Sekondi-Takoradi he was elected President of the Ghana Trades Union Congress and also served as Director of Education.

That same year he was made the President of the Association of Students of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Brussels.

At the 40th International Labour Conference in 1957, he participated in a study tour of trade unions, the factories and office cooperatives in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom and the Labor movement representing Ghana.

In 1958 he was elected President of the executive board of the Ghana Trades Union Congress and appointed vice-president of the Builders Brigade Council with the rank of Lieutenant.