She decided to stay after her husband's death, she had established herself as a successful bead trader in Abidjan.
He lived with his family in Swedru where he continued schooling, this time in the English Language.
He sat for his standard seven school leaving certificate in 1932 and entered Wesley College in 1933 to train as a teacher.
[4] After the death of Kwesi Plange in 1953 he was selected by his party the CPP to stand elections in his home town Cape Coast as a municipal member of the legislative assembly.
He contested for the Cape Coast seat with Amponsah Dadzie of the United Party.
Welbeck won the election but the results were contested by his opponent; Amponsah Dadzie.
He was returned to Ghana in November 1960 after his residence was besieged by the Congo military for allegedly plotting with the then deposed Patrice Lumumba against Mobutu's regime.
[8][9] In September 1962, he became acting executive secretary of the CPP due to Hugh Horatio Coffie Crabbe's detention.
[10] In 1965 Welbeck was appointed Minister of information (a non cabinet post) and party propaganda secretary.