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Mr. Wellington Enninful-Eghan was born in Kumasi in December 1939 to comfort Harriet Unmindful and Edumadze Eghan of blessed memory. He lived with his grandfather, Rev. G.B Enninful, Presiding Elder, of the A.M.E Zion mission and traveled with him during his missionary journeys, which took him to Cape Coast, Akim Akroso and Winneba. He therefore started his elementary schooling at Varick Memorial A.M.E Zion School , Cape Coast, continued at Akim Akroso State School,
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Prince Memorial A.M.E Zion Middle School, Winneba and completed at his former school in Cape Coast.He studied architectural draughtsmanship in Cape Coast Technical School from 1955 – 1958.After completion he worked at P.W.D., Accra and was later transferred to K.N.U.S.T. Development Office. While working, he realised that he was worth more than a draughtsman so he started taking evening classes. With persistent effort and determination, he passed the ‘O’ and ‘A’ Level General certificate of Education (London) and gained admission into Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), to pursue architecture from 1969 – 1975. He settled in Kumasi and married a young nurse by name Stella Opoku-Acquah in 1973.
He set up an Architectural Practice named Enninful Design Services (EDS) in 1978 and was the Director and Chief Consultant. He became a successful architect, with a number of monuments to his credit including the Len Clay Stadium in Obuasi; Gold House in Accra; CAL Merchant Bank also in Accra; Ghamot building (Kumasi), GUSS Hostel on the KNUST campus and later Otumfuo’s Residence, Manhyia. Selfless as he was, he joined the KNUST staff as Senior Lecturer in Architecture in 1986. He was a Fellow of the Ghana Institute of Architects (GIA), member of the Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA), served as a Council member of the GIA for well over 10 years and became the Vice president of the Institute.
He has delivered public lectures to a number of organizations including the Ghana Sports Council; Ghana Institution of Engineers; Religious Groups including the yearly Conference Studies of the A.M.E. Zion Conferences; the Superintendent Minister’s Class of the Wesley Methodist Church, Kumasi, and even across the seas to the University of Maryland (USA). He was also a Lay Preacher at the Bishop Small Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church.
He worshiped and served his church A.M.E. Zion Church faithfully. Through his good services to his church, he was invited to attend many conferences in the United State of America. Professionally, he placed his services at the doors of the West and Mid-Ghana Conferences and designed a number of churches and parsonages for both Conferences. These included the parsonage and the church tower for the Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, Winneba and Afrancho A.M.E. Zion Church. The most recent of his works are the Refurbishment of the Episcopal Residence Lartebiokorshie, Accra and Assembly Hall and Chapel Complex at Aggrey Memorial Zion Secondary School, Cape Coast.
His free will professional services were not confined only to the Zion mission. He designed among others the Catholic Bishop’s Residence Kumasi; Divine Providence Monastery Jamasi; Rev Sisters Convent Jamasi; Church Building Donyina; Retired priest home for the Catholic Diocese of Kumasi. During the visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Kumasi in 1980, he was appointed the architect and a member of the Decoration committee by the Catholic Diocese of Kumasi. He designed the rostrum where the mass was said at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its commentary on the Pope’s visit stated, “ .... the mass was said on a golden and magnificent altar”. Also, he designed and supervised the construction of the refurbishment and expansion of Calvary Methodist Church, (Church Hall) Amakom – Kumasi, Lutheran Church Building Kumasi; Anglican Fathers’ Residence etc. He loved traveling and visited countries like U.S.A., Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Holland and other African countries and in all these places his interest was in architecture.
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