He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Social Studies Education from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and received his Master of Arts in Social Sciences Education in 2004 and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a cognate in Research Methods from the University of South Florida. His areas of research include immigrant issues in education focused specifically on the educational and non-educational experiences of immigrant students from Africa, cross-cultural learning experiences of Black immigrant students, the cultural contexts of education, international education (education in sub-Saharan Africa), and multicultural online education. His work has appeared in journals such as Transformative Education, Adult Learning and International Forum of Teaching and Studies.