Professor Momade was born at Adutor, a small town about five kilometres south of Sogakope in the South Tongu District. He attended the E.P. Primary and L.A. Middle Schools in the town and continued his secondary education at the Sogakope Secondary School, and then to the Sixth Forms at the St Augustine's College in Cape Coast. In order to prepare himself financially for university education he took up teaching appointment at the Ada Secondary School and worked at the Central Laboratories of the then Ghana Water and Sewage Corporation.

In 1974, he won a government scholarship to Hungary. After about one year of language studies, he enrolled at the Veszprem University, where he was trained

as a Chemical Engineer and obtained both the BSc and MSc degrees. After graduation, he worked in the Ajka Alumina Plant and Aluminium Smelter for more than a year before returning to Ghana in 1982. However, in 1983, due to his performance at the University, the Hungarian Government offered him a scholarship to do his PhD studies, which he completed with a Summa Cum Laude in 1985.

Prof. Momade joined the KNUST in 1987 as a lecturer in the Department of Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy of the Institute of Mining and Mineral Engineering. As a young lecturer, he was given various responsibilities besides lecturing which among others included examinations officer, transport officer and the handling of sophisticated equipment such as the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) and the X-ray diffractometer (XRD) in the laboratory. He has been Head of Department of the Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy/Materials Science and Engineering and Dean of the School of Mines, Kumasi. He lectured various courses in extractive metallurgy and materials science as well as engineering at the undergraduate level and environmental assessment and management at the graduate level.

Professor Momade represented the Institute of Mining and Mineral Engineering on various University Boards and Committees. Within the Institute of Mining and Mineral Engineering, he has served as a Member of the GTZ Project Management Board, Finance Committee, Computer Committee, Equipment Committee, Research and Consultancy Committee, Member/Secretary of the Seminar and Publication Committee, and the Editorial Board of the Ghana Mining Journal. At the University level, he has served as a Member of the Executive Committee, Academic Board, Scholarships Committee, Research and Conference Committee, Resources and Planning and Resource Committee and Budget Committee. He is also a Hall Fellow of the Unity Hall

Prof. Momade has as a scholar, been promoted from the position of Lecturer to a Senior Lecturer in 1994 and then to an Associate Professor in 2000. He has conducted research in many areas. On various occasions, he has been a visiting scientist to TU Clausthal ( Germany) to carry out research on topics of importance for the development of the mining sector in Ghana. He has peer reviewed various papers for Hydrometallurgy (an international journal of repute published by Elsevier) and the Ghana Mining Journal. He has also reviewed a textbook manuscript for UNESCO and attended international conferences both abroad and at home.

Prof. Momade provided services not only to the KNUST community but also to the Ghanaian industries as well. He has been involved in projects with the industry including the technological evaluation of the Kibi Bauxite, the optimisation of flow sheet for upgrading low-grade ores at the Nsuta Manganese mine and the characterisation of alluvial gold ores to aid equipment selection with the view of optimising flow sheets. The other projects include the characterisation of bauxite mine waste, feasibility studies into the use of bauxite mine waste for the production of aluminium sulphate for water purification and the evaluation of bauxite mine waste for the production of refractory materials, among others. He is a member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, and has been a member of the Geological Society of Ghana (now Ghana Institution of Geosciences) and the Mining Metallurgical Petroleum Society of Ghana.

Prof. Momade met his wife at the University in 1976 and has been married since 1981. His wife Zsusza is a lecturer in chemical engineering and they together have two children, Eszter and Viktor. Eszter is a medical student at this university and Viktor is in class four at the Ridge School.