[1] Formerly a pupil of Achimota School, his contemporaries included K. B. Asante, Victor Owusu and R. R.
[2] He was a research student in history at Cambridge University in 1951, completing his studies in 1956 and finishing a law degree at the same time.
He returned to Ghana after his research studies in 1956 to enter into private legal practice.
During the inception of the third republic in 1979, he was appointed Attorney General and minister for Justice[4] in the Limann led government.
He resigned after he was moved to the ministry of Local Government in a 1981 ministerial reshuffle.