Kwasi Amakye-Boateng studied for his Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Linguistics at the University of Ghana-Legon. He had another Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Philosophy degree both in Political Science at the University of Tromso, Norway.

He was a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Journalism and was later recruited to lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. 

He studied for a Ph.D. in African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon in 2016 and has since been lecturing at the Department of History and Political Studies.