 In the summer of 1974 he was a Visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.Between 1974 and 1977 he was a PhD student in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.Thereafter he was Research Fellow in African Music at the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya, and then Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Kenyatta University College in Nairobi.