he died on the 6th of june in 1996 and is buried in the forecourt of the administration of accra academy. konuah is remembered for his exploits in providing an education for children who showed some aptitude but whose parents who could not afford to send their children to the existing schools of the day in his country,ghana. he is also remembered as an one of the initiators of the first privately founded school in gold coast and not only so but for the first time in the then gold coast a school had been founded without the help of any church group or denomination. "the konuah-halm-addo-alema-awuletey lectures" is held annually in joint honour of him.