Dr Samuel Kakambi Mafwila was born at Mahundu in Zambezi Region, Namibia. He did all his primary and secondary school education at various schools in the eastern Zambezi region, and matriculated in STEM field in 1992. He was employed as a temporal teacher for Mathematics and Physical Science in 1993, and then moved to Windhoek in 1994 to pursue the BSc at the University of Namibia. He started working as a student intern at the Multi-disciplinary Research Centre (MRC) at the University of Namibia in 1996 & 1997, and then got employed as a Junior Researcher in the Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) Programme in MRC in 1998. In 2003, he joined the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences as a Lecturer, which then transformed to the then Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences in the capacity as a Senior Lecturer, at University of Namibia. In 2016, he took a senior management position as Director of the Sam Nujoma Marine and Coastal Resources Research Centre (SANUMARC), and in July 2020, he assumed an acting role of assistant Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Sam Nujoma Campus, Henties Bay, Namibia.