 He taught at Makerere College (now Makerere University), Kyambogo Technical Institute (now Kyambogo University) and the University of Dar es Salaam, where he helped found the Department of Music, Arts and Theatre.In Dar es Salaam he was Resident Artist, Senior Lecturer and at his retirement associate professor.He did research in the United States of America, in the 1970s at Dillard & Xavier Universities in New Orleans, Louisiana and in the 1980s at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in both areas of Fine Art and African Studies.