 After his secondary education he returned to the Brong Ahafo Region to help revive the abandoned Dormaa Senior High School (then Dormaa State College) in Dormaa which was founded by one Mr. Oppong and one Mr. Yeboah who were both from Dormaa.He was made principal of the school by the founders when the first principal resigned upon threats from the British Colonial Government District Commissioner (DC) as the District Commissioner insisted the college's establishment was not part of the Government's development plan.Yeboah-Afari started the college again on 8 January 1948 with three students.