Christine H. Sophie Kabuye

Christine H. Sophie Kabuye (born 1938) is an ethnobotanist from Uganda. From 1971 to 1994, she served as botanist in charge of the East African Herbarium in Nairobi, Kenya.

Early life and education Christine H. Sophie Kabuye was born in 1938 in Uganda.

In 1964, Kabuye graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Science degree in botany and zoology. While in Europe, she also visited herbariums across Sweden, France, Italy, and other countries.

From 1971 to 1994, Kabuye administrated the East African Herbarium at the National Museums of Kenya, which she had first joined in 1964. She also led the Kenya Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge from 1992 to 1996. From 1994 to 1996, she served as president of the International Society of Ethnobiology.