Catherine Samali Kavuma

Catherine Samali Kavuma (born 1960) is a novelist and a prominent Ugandan personality.

She was born in Nkokonjeru. At the age of eight she moved with her family to Great Britain where her father was employed by the Uganda Coffee Marketing Board. In the early 1970s, her family moved to Ethiopia. Catherine went to Loreto Convent School Msongari, in Nairobi, Kenya where she finished secondary school. Later she went back to Britain again to study at St. Francis de Sales Convent in Tring, Hertfordshire.

In 1980 she moved to the United States to study at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland, where she got a Bachelors Degree in Anthropology specialising in Archeology. During her study at the SUNY she founded the 'Culture Club', an anthroplogical society aimed at raising funds to invite eminent scholars and specialists in the field of Anthropology and Archeology.

In the middle of the 1980s Catherine Samali Kavuma moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Ambassdor of Uganda to the United States at the Embassy of Uganda. After working with the Embassy of Canada she got a job at the World Bank as Program Assistant in the office of the Executive Director for Africa.

Catherine has two children, Nadia and Philip and a grandson named Joaquin.

References

* [http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/aflit/AMINAKavuma.html Interview with Catherine Samali Kavuma by Asmaou Diallo published in ' Amina'] March 2003.

Publications

*"Malita and other stories." New Jersey: Sungai Books, 2002. (183p.). ISBN 1-889218-28-6 HB / 1-889218-29-4 PB. "Short stories"