[1][2] Mustapha Abdul-Hamid was born in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale on the 14th of June 1971 to Hamidu Yakubu and Adama Musah.

In 1991, he entered the University of Cape Coast to pursue a Bachelor of Arts course with English Language, Classics and Religious Studies.

Some of his publications include, “Religious Language and the Charge of Blasphemy: In Defense of Al-Hallaj,” and “Christian-Muslim Relations in Ghana: A Model for World Dialogue and Peace.” Mustapha Abdul-Hamid showed an early interest and capacity for debate.

[5] Before his appointment as minister for information in March 2017, he was a lecturer at the Department of Religion and Human Values of the University of Cape Coast.

At that time, the military government of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC), headed by Flight Lieutenant (retired) Jerry John Rawlings, had hinted that it was to lift the ban on party political activity in May 1992.

The group that in Ghana's political history had been associated with the Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition, formed what they called at the time, the Danquah-Busia Club.

The man who was responsible for planting the club in the Central Region was a senior figure in the tradition called Lawyer Spio.

It was he who began the process of recruiting young men and women at the University of Cape Coast to form the nucleus of the club.

Mustapha Abdul-Hamid was among the first batch of young men who were recruited to start the party's University of Cape Coast branch.