He was a Member of Parliament for Hohoe South and was the Minister for the Volta Region of Ghana from January 2009 until his dismissal on 6 March 2012, he worked as a university lecturer prior to going into politics.
[1] Amenowode's family hails from Ve-Deme in the Hohoe Municipal District of the Volta Region, he was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
He attended the Hohoe Evangelical Presbyterian Secondary School between 1966 and 1971 obtaining the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level, he proceeded to Kpando Secondary School for his sixth form education, completing the GCE Advanced Level in 1973.
His undergraduate university education was at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in 1979, he continued for an extra year to complete a postgraduate diploma in 1980.
[1][3] Joseph Amenowode is a member of the National Democratic Congress, he first stood for the 2004 Ghanaian general election, winning with a majority of 17,720 (75.6%) and taking his seat in the Fourth parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.