Membership of Committees, Councils and Boards (e.g.)

(a) University of Khartoum

  • Member of the Council of the U. of K., 1975-79, 1983-1990.
  • Member of the Senate, U. of K, 1965-1984, and Chairman 1985-1990.

     (b) Membership of some Learned Institutions in the Sudan

  • Board of the Central (or National) Records Office, Ministry of Interior, since 1966 to date.
  • Board Anthropology, Ministry of Interior 1966-1979.
  • UNESCO National Committee, 1969-1980.
  • Board of Antiquities, Ministry of higher Education and Scientific Research, 1971-1975.
  • Founding member of the National Council for the Press and Publications, 1973-77.
  • National Council for Research 1970-71, 1973-74 and 1985.
  • Member of the Councils of the Universities of Gezira and Juba; and Omdourman Islamic University and Khartoum Polytechnic 1985-1990.
  • Member of the National Council for Higher Education, 1985-1990.
  • Chairman, National Corporation of Antiquities.
  • Chairman,National Committee of Geographical Names.
  • Founding member, and member of the Board of Trustees of Khartoum International High School, 1974-1990.
  • Founding member of Al Mahmiyya Girls High Secondary School, 1993.
  • Chief Examiner for the selection of Young Sudanese Diplomats for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1961-1990.

     (c) Membership of Editorial Boards and Academic Journals

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Majalat Al-Dirasat Al-Sudaniyya since 1968.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the leading academic Journal, Sudan Notes and Records (issued in English since 1918, since 1964, Editor since 1966).

     (d) Ministerial Committees

  • Head of the Education Committee for the Preparation of Six Years’ Budget Plan, Ministry of Economy and Finance, 1975-76.
  • Member of the Technical Committee that drew the constitution of Regional Government in the Sudan 1979.

     (e) Examples of conferences convened and attended

  • A Conference on ‘Logic, Physical Reality and History’, University of Denver, USA, May 1966.
  • A seminar on “Race Problems and International Relations’, University of Denver, May 20-21-1966.
  • Governor of Sudan Research Unit, First International Conference on the Place of Sudan in Africa, February 1968.
  • Attended a conference on the “Place of Oral Traditions in African Studies”, Niamey, September 1968, UNESCO.
  • Participated in the Conference of African Specialists to plan the writing of a General History of Africa, UNESCO, Paris, June 1969.
  • Sudan Government representative to the international conference celebrating the bicentenary of Muhammad Ali Jinah, Islamabad, Pakistan, 1976.
  • Attended the Orientalist Conference in Mexico, 1977.

(f) Membership of Regional and International bodies:

  • Member of the Governing Board, International African Institute, London, 1969-74, 1992-1994.
  • Member of the Executive Committee on Oral Traditions, American Africanists Association, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 1971-74.
  • Member of the Sudanese Delegation to the meeting of the Arab Ministers of Culture, Arab League, Jordan, December 1976.
  • Member of the Sudanese delegation to the International Ministerial Conference on Education, Geneva, 1977.
  • Member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President of the International Congress of African Studies 1974-78, first Vice—President and Treasurer, 1978-1984 and President 1984-1991.
  • Member of the Sudanese Delegation to the Twenty First General Conference of UNESCO, Belgrade, October 1980.
  • Member of the Associations of Arab Universities and African Universities, 1984 -90.
  • Member of the Council of University of Zambia,       1989-1991.* Addressed the United Kingdom Sudanese Studies Association in Durham, April 1990,       presented the keynote address in September, 2000, and that of the United States of America in April, 1991, at Vassar College.