Christopher Komla Taff Mensah was born Ghana in 1939 and educated at Mawuli Secondary School, in Ho, from 1953-57. He studied architecture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Kumasi, from 1958-61 and began work, along with KNUST classmate, Francis Kobia-Amanfi, at the Architectural and Civil Engineering company in Accra (1962-63). In 1963 they both travelled to the UK as part of a group students selected as an exchange programme between the KNUST and the Architectural Association (AA), London, the two institutions having entered a contract to work together to develop the architecture programme at KNUST. Mensah entered the Third Year cohort of the AA five-year Diploma course and, as part of his final year’s studies in 1965-66, elected to join the programme of the AA Department of Tropical Studies. During his studies he lived at the AA’s hostel at 113 Stapleton Hall Road, in Stroud Green, London, alongside fellow Ghanaian students, Samuel Larbi, John Nutsugah and Francis Segbedzi. From 1968 Mensah worked for four years worked for the UK Ministry of Public Building and Works, in London (absorbed into the Department of the Environment in 1970). Details of his subsequent life and career are not yet known to us.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll, 1966. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 18th July 1966