He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Ghana and a deputy minister of state in the Busia government.
[2][4] He ventured politics in 1969 and was elected a member of parliament for the Abura constituency on the ticket of the Progress Party.
[5][6] That same year he was appointed deputy minister for local government and administration serving in this position together with Justice Akuamoa Boateng.
[7] He served in this capacity until 1971 when he was moved to the ministry of Education, Culture and Sports in the January 1971 reschuffel.
[2][4] He was recalled to the history department of the University of Ghana[2] working as an associate professor at the Institute of African Studies.
[9] He served as dean of the faculty of social sciences from 1982 to 1984 doubling as head of the university's history department in the same period.
[4] In 1985 he was enstooled nifahene of the Abura traditional area of the Central Region of Ghana with the stool name; Nana Budukuma IV.