He specializes in the music of sub-Saharan Africa and his areas of interest and research include historical ethnomusicology, organology, and the relationship between musical practice and sociopolitical systems. His current research focuses on the royalist music institution of the Kingdom of Buganda, Uganda. An active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Kafumbe is the current member-at-large and treasurer of the Northeast Chapter (NECSEM) and in-coming chair of the African Music Section (AfMS). He is also serving on the Program Committees for this year’s SEM meeting in Austin, Texas and NECSEM meeting in Providence, Rhode Island.