Background
Kavuma 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.
Kavuma 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.
Catherine attended Loreto Convent School, Msongari, in Nairobi, Kenya, where she finished secondary school.
In the early 1970s, her family moved to Ethiopia. Later she went back to Britain again to study at Saint Francis de Sales Convent in Tring, Hertfordshire. In 1980 she moved to the United States to study at the State University of New York (State University of New York) College at Cortland, where she earned a Bachelor"s degree in Anthropology, specialising in Archeology.
During her study at State University of New York she founded the "Culture Club", an anthropological society aimed at raising funds to invite eminent scholars and specialists in the field of Anthropology and Archeology.
In the mid-1980s Catherine Samali Kavuma moved to Washington, District of Columbia 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.
