[6] The name, according to Ga custom, is given to the fourth successive male son of a couple.
[9] According to his grandfather, every fourth male-born child had passed on during their infancy based on his research into the family's history.
[9] In his grandfather's opinion, an odd name could prevent the spirits from taking his life at his infancy.
In January 1929 he entered Achimota College to study for his Intermediate bachelor's degree, there he was the first to be awarded the Achimota Council scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.
[7] In 1948, he was awarded his master's degree from Oxford University as part of an extramural program which was being run by the Gold Coast Government on an experimental basis.
[3][17][18][19] At the inception of the Second Republic later in 1969, he was appointed the Chairman of the National Commission for Higher Education.