Catherine Namono

Catherine Namono is a Ugandan archaeologist and art historian who specializes in the study of Rock art. She is the first Ugandan woman to qualify as an archaeologist.

Early life Catherine Namono was born in Uganda to parents Joyce Apaku and Engineer Martin Wambwa. She attended Fairway Primary School in Mbale. She then transferred to Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga, in Mukono District, for her O-Level education. She then went to Trinity College, an all-girls boarding school located in Nabbingo, Wakiso District, where she completed her A-Level education, graduating with a High School Diploma. She is also a Ugandan rock art specialist working at the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is also currently conducting another study on the pygmy rock art tradition and rock art in Kondowa in Tanzania. Her contributions to this fairly understudied field has increased the data base on rock art in the Lake Victoria basin as well as shed light on the understandings of this rock art with her interpretations.

Uganda's rock art has not been thoroughly examined along with the fact that source and date of this art remains unidentified because of the unclear geometric symbols.