[3] He was employed by the Institut des Sciences Humaines and began conducting archaeological expeditions to the Lakes Region.
[4] In 1986 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to Rice University where he eventually completed an MA and PhD with Roderick and Susan McIntosh.
[7] In 1989–1990, he worked extensively with Kevin MacDonald, then of the University of Cambridge, and undertook vigorous investigations in the Mema, where they inventoried 137 sites, including 32 of the Neolithic period.
[7] Togola was instrumental in securing Tombeau des Askia of Gao as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and also protecting the Timbuktu monuments during his term as Cultural Minister.
"[10] He was also the author of The Inland Delta and the Manding Mountains,[11] and Archaeological Investigations of Iron Age sites in the Mema Region, Mali (West Africa) (2008).