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Aikande Kwayu
Education-PhD in Politics and International Relations, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (2012).

-M.A (Summa Cum Laude) in International Relations, United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya (2007).

-B.A. (Cum Laude) in International Relations, United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya (2004).

-Certificate of Asian Studies, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka-Japan (2003)
Occupation-Life Insurance Consultant

-International Law Lecturer

-Researcher

-Author
Employer-Bumaco Life Insurance Company Limited -Tumaini University-Makumira
Websitehttp://aikandekwayu.com/

Aikande Kwayu is a Tanzanian researcher, author, and consultant who is most known for her contribution to academic literature on religion in international relations and development intervention in a field dominated by secularist theories.[1] As a life insurance consultant at Bumaco Life Insurance Company,[2] she works from the philosophy that insurance is a self-development tool, and as a researcher and part-time lecturer at Tumaini University-Makumira in Arusha, Tanzania, Kwayu's research is based on the theory of 'development as freedom'.[3] Born in a small village in Tanzania, she now focuses on education access and rural infrastructure development in Tanzania.[4] Kwayu has made a notable impact on individual and country-wide development in Tanzania.[5]

Biography[6]

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Aikande Kwayu first earned her Certificate of Asian Studies from Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan in 2003. Afterwards, she graduated Cum Laude from the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya in 2004 with her Bachelor's in International Relations and continued to earn her M.A. in the same program. Kwayu then earned her PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, UK in 2012.

Kwayu's main profession includes her work at Bumaco Life Insurance Company where she's been a senior consultant since 2012 and a managing director since 2019.

Alongside consulting, Kwayu started a career in academia in 2008 as a teaching fellow at the University of Nottingham. Since then, she has worked as a professor and professional researcher at universities across the globe, and is now settled at Tumaini University-Makumira in Arusha, Tanzania as a part-time lecturer where she has been since 2015.

Current Professional Focus

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Aikande Kwayu balances being a life insurance consultant, development researcher, and international law professor to help individual empowerment and development in Tanzania. She offers her professional work and services in English and Swahili.

Kwayu focuses on political, economic, and social analyses at her profession to encourage management decisions and development interventions. She combines her academic background and consulting experience to provide well-researched advice to several types of organizations in Tanzania and around the world.[7]

As a life insurance consultant, Kwayu works from a philosophy that insurance is a self-development tool that helps an individual manage risks and secure their achievements in old age, retirement, critical illness, disability, or death.[4]

As a researcher in development, Kwayu's research is based on the theory of 'development as freedom'. Kwayu is also a part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Tumaini University-Makumira in Arusha, Tanzania where she teaches international law modules.[8] She focuses on religion and development as well as party politics and its wider impact on democracy and development.[9] She is currently working on a publication on education access discrimination in Tanzania and the ten-cell house system[10] in rural Tanzania.[9]

Kwayu's proudest publication consists of a book she co-authored with Amy Stambach[11] at the University of Wisconsin-Madison[12] called "Pragmatic Faith and the Lutheran Church in Tanzania: Erasto Kweka's Life and Work[13]". In this book, the authors presented critical reflections on the role of church in development, the relationship between church and state, and the connections and distinctions between the church in Tanzania and the missionaries. They analyzed the ideals of socialism and self-reliance in Tanzania and the church's interpretation of the same.[14]

Prizes and Honors

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  • 2004: Best Essay: Awarded by and presented at SCUSA 56 Conference, West Point Military Academy, New York, USA.
    • Topic: Beyond Hegemony: The Consequences of the US's Actions Both at Home and Abroad.[15]
  • 2006: Top Performing M.A. Student, United States International University-Africa
  • 2006: Highest Performing Female in graduating class, United States International University-Africa
  • 2012: The University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Emerging Diversity Scholar Citation[15]
  • 2024: TrailBlazer,[16] Tanzania Women in Finance Association (TAWIFA)[17]
    • Kwayu earned this award as one of the few female CEOs in financial institutions in Tanzania.

Publications[18]

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  • Kwayu A. (forthcoming). The Immorality of Pregnancy and Truancy as Alibi: Uncovering systematic discrimination in access to basic education in Tanzania. In Cooper E., Erdmute A. and Wandiya N. (Eds.).Education Alibi. Michigan University Press
  • Kwayu A. (2023). Walking rallies: opposition party's new campaigning approach in Tanzania 2020 election. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 1-18.
  • Süleymanoglu-Kürüm R. and Kwayu Aikande (2022). Assessment of good governance and gender equality in the EU's budgetary support programme in Tanzania: Insights from agriculture sector. In Digdem S.C (Ed). EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline. Palgrave Mcmillan.
  • Stambach Amy and Kwayu Aikande (2021). Witness to a passing: The silent death of local water management and the quiet hand of government. Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 11 (2):412-427
  • Kwayu Aikande (2021). Determinants of a political party's social media strategy: A comparative analysis of Tanzania's opposition political parties' Twitter practices. Party Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211041039
  • Stambach Amy & Kwayu Aikande (2020). Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's and Work. Lexington.
  • Kwayu Aikande (2020). Religion and British International Development Policy. Palgrave Macmillan
  • Stambach Amy & Kwayu Aikande (2017). Confucius Institutes in Africa, or How the Educational Spirit in Africa is Re-Rationalised Towards the East. Journal of Southern African Studies. 43/2.
  • Kwayu Aikande (2016). Taxing the Rich in Tanzania: Interfaith Activism in Mining Sector, Smith J. P & Dreher S. (Eds.). Contrasting Roles of Religious Activism in the Global Economy. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
  • Kwayu Aikande (2015). Different 'uses of Nyerere' in the Constitutional Review debates: A touchstone for legitimacy in Tanzania, in Fouere, Marie-Aude (Ed.) Remembering Nyerere: History, Memory, Legacy. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Press.
  • Stambach Amy, & Kwayu Aikande (2013). Take the Gift of My Child and Return Something to Me: On Children, Chagga Trust, and Religion on Mount Kilimanjaro. Journal of Religion in Africa. 43.4, 379-395.
  • Kwayu, Aikande (2013). "Book Review: Understanding the Somalia Conflagration: Identity, Political Islam, and Peacebuilding, by Elmi A.A." Capital and Class. 37/1.
  • Kwayu, Aikande (2011). "Faith Groups in the First Ten Years of DFID (1997–2007)" and "Pluralism, Secularism, and Religious Schools: Addressing a Perennial Problem." Invited commentary with colleagues on the topic: "Religion, Education, and Secularism in International Agencies." Comparative Education Review. 55.1: 111-142.
  • Kwayu, Aikande. 2011. "Cameron Coming to the (Foreign) Aid of the Party?" Ballots and Bullets, School of Politics publication, University of Nottingham, 6/6/2011. See http://nottspolitics.org/2011/06/06/cameron-coming-to-the-aid-of-the-party/
  • Wameyo, Amboka; David Makala; & Aikande Kwayu (2005). What is Violence? Perspectives from Children in Tanzania: A Contribution to the United Nations Study on Violence Against Children. New York: World Vision International.

References

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  1. ^ "Can religion play a role in evidence-obsessed governance strategies? Lessons from Tanzania | From Poverty to Power". frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  2. ^ "Bumaco life - Insurance Company". www.bumacolife.co.tz.
  3. ^ "Skills". Aikande Clement Kwayu. 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  4. ^ a b "Community". Aikande Clement Kwayu. 2012-06-13. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  5. ^ The Chanzo (2024-04-13). Mazungumzo na Dk Aikande Kwayu: Uhusiano wa Dini na Serikali, Hali ya Siasa na Sera ya Mambo ya nje. Retrieved 2024-12-01 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ Kwayu, A. (2023). Resume. http://aikandekwayu.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kwayu-Aikande-C-Resume-2023-.pdf
  7. ^ "Aikande Clement Kwayu". Aikande Clement Kwayu. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  8. ^ "Aikande Clement Kwayu". The Conversation. 2020-05-11. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  9. ^ a b "Current Research". Aikande Clement Kwayu. 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  10. ^ Ingle, Clyde R. (1972). "The Ten-House Cell System in Tanzania: A Consideration of an Emerging Village Institution". The Journal of Developing Areas. 6 (2): 211–226 – via JSTOR.
  11. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-stambach/
  12. ^ Stambach, Amy. "Amy Stambach". Linkedin. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
  13. ^ "Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's Life and Work - 9781793603609".
  14. ^ Fischer, Moritz (2023-07-19). "Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu, Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's Life and Work. Lanham MD: Lexington Books (hb US$95/£73 – 978 1 7936 0359 3). 2020, 150 pp". Africa. 93 (3): 448–449. doi:10.1017/s0001972023000499. ISSN 0001-9720.
  15. ^ a b http://aikandekwayu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/AikandeCVAug.2013.pdf
  16. ^ "TIB'S MD AWARDED TRAILBLAZER... - TIB Development Bank Ltd".
  17. ^ "TAWiF - TANZANIA WOMEN IN FINANCE". www.tawifa.org.
  18. ^ "Academic Publications (Peer Reviewed)". Aikande Clement Kwayu. 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2024-12-01.

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