Erzuah was born in 1914 at Takinta a town in the Western Region of Ghana.
He was trained as a teacher at St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast and passed his intermediate bachelors.
He was chairman of the Erzuah committee that was established to review the salaries and service conditions of non government teachers.
[7] In 1952, he was a member of the Ghana delegates in the African Education Conference held at Cambridge.
He was re-elected as a member of the legislative assembly in 1956 and that same year he was promoted to Minister of Education.