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

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n personality."Interview of Catherine Samali Kavuma by Asmaou Diallo", ''Amina'', March 2003. In the mid-1980s Ms. Kavuma moved to

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to work with the Ambassador of Uganda to the United States, Elizabeth Bagaya. She later became employed with the Embassy of Canada. Two years on she was offered employment with the

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as a Program Assistant in the office of the executive director for Africa in 1989. She retired from the World Bank in 2014.

Publications

*''Malita and other stories''. New Jersey: Sungai Books, 2002 (183 pp.). HB / 1-889218-29-4 PB.

References

External links

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Interview with Catherine Samali Kavuma by Asmaou Diallo, published in ''Amina''
, March 2003. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kavuma, Catherine Samali 1960 births Living people Ugandan women writers Ugandan novelists Ugandan women novelists