[3] Bossman was born on 27 March 1907 at Prampram, Greater Accra Region, Ghana (then Gold Coast).
[7] He had his tertiary education at King's College, University of London from 1924 to 1928 where he was admitted as Edward Kofi Bossman.
[7] Upon his return to the Gold Coast, he began private legal practice in Accra at Kojo Thompson's chambers.
[10] In 1929, Bossman was a founding member of the Gold Coast Youth Conference and served as the first secretary of the group.
[19] On 2 March 1964, Bossman together with Edward Akufo-Addo and Robert Samuel Blay were dismissed and their appointments revoked by the then president Kwame Nkrumah.