• Consultant,
World Health Organization, 1977–1980 • President, African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK), 1978–1979 • Chair, World University Southern African Scholarships Committee, 1981–1992 • Council Society for Protection of Science and Learning (now Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)), 1983–2013 (chair 1993–2004) • Governor, Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, 1988–1991 • Chair, The International Records Management Trust, 1989–2004 • Advisory Council on Public Records, 1989–1994 • Governing Body Queen Elizabeth House Oxford, 1991–1994 • Commonwealth Scholarships Commission, 1992–1998 •
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), 1995 •
OBE, 1996 • 7th Annual Bindoff lecture, "Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head", Queen Mary and Westfield College (
University of London), delivered 12 March 1996 • Humanities Research Board 1997–98, a
Non-Departmental Government Body of the British Research Council •
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRB), 1998–2000 • Vice-president,
Royal African Society, 1999– • Distinguished Africanist Award, African Studies Association of the UK, 2002 • Trustee, Council Member,
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