An haifi Captain Moussa Dadis Camara ne ne a shekarar 1964 a garin Koule dake kusa da Nzerekore- a ƙasar ta Guinea. Captain Camara yayi karatun sa na pramare da na sakandare ne a Nzerekore inda ya samu diploma ta Baccalaureat a fannin lissafi na shiga jami'ya a makarantar lycee Samory Toure. Sannan a 1986 ya shiga Jami'ar Gamal Abdel Nasser dake Conakry, babban birnin ƙasar, inda ya samu digiri a fannin tattalin arziki. A shekarar 1990, Moussa Dadis Camara ya shiga sojan kasar Guinea inda ya cigaba da samun horon soja a hindia dake da nisan km 137 da birnin Conakry. Bayan shekara shidda wato a shekarar 1996 ya shiga makarantar offissa a Dresde dake nan Jamus, inda ya samu diploma na shugaban sashen Tsimi a Breme kasar ta Jamus, sannan daga nan ya shiga wata rundunar haɗin gwiwa ta sojojin ƙasar Faransa da Jamus. A lokacin da ya dawo daga Turai a shekarar 1999 ya zama ma taimakin mai kula da hukumar soja ta dakarun majalissar dinkin duniya a ƙasar Saliyo. Daga 2000 zuwa 2001 ya riƙe muƙamin shugaban kula da sashen man petur da sojojin ƙasar ta Guinea ke anfani dashi.