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Biography

  • 1950-1957 at Trinity School, Croydon
  • 1957-1960 at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge       BA Geography
  • 1960-1962 at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda as postgraduate student
  • 1962-1963 at Cambridge  -  Ph D degree awarded 
  • 1963-1967  Lecturer in Geography, Makerere University, Uganda 
  • 1967-2004  Lecturer,  then Reader,  UCL

  • Secondments as Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria  1972-3;  and as 
  • Professor and HoD, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone  1974-5

  • Visiting appointments at University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1978;  at 
  • Cambridge University in 1993;  and at Bournemouth University in 2005

  • Visiting examiner at Royal Holloway,  Birmingham,  Oxford  universities; 
  • and at Njala University, Sierra Leone,  and Makerere University, Uganda

  • Administrative positions included  
    • Secretary to the University of London Board of Studies in Geography 1981-84;
    • Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on University Studies of Africa 1984-88; 
    • Secretary-General of the European Council on African Studies  1982-87;  
    • Assessor in Geography, Higher Education Funding Council for England  1994-95

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