Career
In 1966, Kabuye traveled to Europe to work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she focused her research on flowering plants in the Oxalidaceae family. [1] Her research on Oxalidaceae was later included in the Royal Botanic Gardens' Flora of Tropical East Africa . [4] [5] While in Europe, she also visited herbariums across Sweden, France, Italy, and other countries. [1] She would later return to Europe to study Indigenous knowledge at Leiden University and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania. [1]
Kabuye is an expert in the ethnobotany and Indigenous knowledge of East Africa. [1] Her taxonomic specialties include Oxalidaceae and Poaceae. [1] She has worked both to collect plant specimens and to explore their use in partnership with Indigenous groups such as the Maasai. [1] [6]
From 1971 to 1994, Kabuye administrated the East African Herbarium at the National Museums of Kenya, which she had first joined in 1964. [1] [6] [7] She also led the Kenya Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge from 1992 to 1996. [1] [6] She represented Kenya in the negotiations around the 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity. [1] [8] From 1994 to 1996, she served as president of the International Society of Ethnobiology. [1] [6]
In 1985, Kabuye spent time in the United States working at the Smithsonian Institution and Southern Methodist University. [1] She was later chosen as a fellow at Australian National University in 1988. [1]
After retiring from the East African Herbarium, Kabuye returned to Uganda, where she worked as a part-time lecturer at Makerere University beginning in 2004. [1] [6]
