Laher taught Black Studies, African Studies, and Political Science at universities in the United States (
Portland), South Africa (
Stellenbosch), and India (
Jawaharlal Nehru University). He published papers in international peer-reviewed journals and made research presentations at conferences in Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, and Kenya. In 2006 he was appointed as the Nelson Mandela Chair and Professor for African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Laher returned to Kimberley in South Africa in 2010 to be with his mother after his father had died, there acting as an independent consultant and research associate of the McGregor Museum. He headed a team of museum historians producing new displays and publications on the history of the liberation struggle in the Northern Cape, 1850 to the present. He and
Abraham Korir Sing'Oei edited a volume,
Indigenous People in Africa: Contestations, Empowerment and Group Rights, published in 2014 by the
Africa Institute of South Africa, where Laher had been a chief research specialist. At the time of his death, he had been employed as an independent political consultant to the Premier's Office, reviewing twenty years of departmental performance in the
Northern Cape. ==Blogging==