Prior to joining parliament he had served on various positions for the Ghana Trade Union Congress.
He completed his elementary education in 1944 and entered the School of Architecture at Cape Coast.
[5] He worked in this position for about six months and was later moved to the Economic Department of the Trades Union Congress serving there as a director.
That same year he was transferred to the Political and Social Affairs department of the Trades Union Congress.
He was appointed the Administrative Secretary of the All African Peoples Conference in 1960 while he doubled as a news consultant of Radio Ghana.