He proceeded to the University of Ghana in 1972 to pursue a bachelor's degree in English and Russian completing in 1975 with second class upper division honours.
[6] He returned to Ghana in 1991 to work as the deputy director of Finance and Accounts Bureau and also serve as a personal assistant to the honourable minister for foreign affairs; Obed Asamoah.
In 1998 he was appointed personal assistant to the honorable minister at the State Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was assigned to the office of the Vice President.
In 2000 he was made Minister and Deputy Head of Mission serving in the Ghana High Commission to Nigeria, Abuja.
Four months later he was sent to Ethiopia as minister and deputy head of mission at the Ghana Embassy at Addis Ababa.
[5] In November 2008 Kwame Asamoah Tenkorang was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Libyan Jamahiriya with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner to the Republic of Malta and Permanent Representative to the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) by the then president John Kufuor.