Lee aizoenderera mberi nekugadzira chirongwa chevadzidzi ve hostel uye imba yevaenzi, achitarisira kupa pekugara pasingadhuri kune vadzidzi vepasi rose vanobva kune dzimwe nzvimbo dzeAfrica. Akaisawo mari muzvimwe zvirongwa zvakasiyana-siyana, kusanganisira purazi uye nzvimbo yokurovedza. Akasiya basa rake rokurapa mazino muna 2002. Muna 2007, akapa mifananidzo yaKwame Nkrumah yaakanga atora mumazuva ake paLincoln University kuKwame Nkrumah Mausoleum mukugadzirira nyika yeGolden Jubilee inopemberera makore makumi mashanu ekuzvimiririra. Mumakore ake okukwegura, akaramba achicherechedza zvinoitika muUnited States, zvikurukuru nhimbe yaBarack Obama yokuva purezidhendi
uye sarudzo dzakazotevera muna 2008. Munguva yekushanya kwaVaObama kuGhana muna 2009, vakati vaifara kuona kuti United States yakanga ichifambira mberi, asi vaifunga kuti "Ghana yakanga yafambira mberi nguva refu pamberi peUnited States". Yunivhesiti yeGhana-Legon yakamupa degree rekuremekedza muna 2008 kuti azive mupiro wake wakasarudzika kubasa reveruzhinji, zvichimuita wechipiri muAmerican wavakapa degree rakadai, mushure meW. E. B. Du Bois.