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Biography
editAikande 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. There, she works on rural and urban development in Tanzania. She focuses on political and economic analyses at her profession to encourage management decisions and development interventions. Kwayu combines her academic background and consulting experience to provide well-researched advice to several types of organizations in Tanzania and around the world.
Alongside consulting, Kwayu also 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.
Publications
edit- 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 (2016). 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.