Kamanzi Adalbertus

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at University of Namibia

This book aims to empower our minds so that we are able to self-counsel ourselves in order not to get to a point of stress or to overcome stress if we got to it in a workplace. Besides self-counselling, we also need to be able to spot signals of stress in our colleagues and friends. Spotting such signals is the beginning of a journey of interventio...

The baseline argument for the book is that you are unhappy because you are socialized to compete in order to succeed. So, you compete with yourself, in your family, at the workplace, and even at places of worship. In order to have fundamental happiness, a productive competition-free attitude is necessary: recognize that you are a possibility with a...

Purpose: The paper examines if gender matters in the financial inclusion in the enterprises of Namibia. Methodology: Using the Namibia Enterprise Survey Database (NESD) 2014/2015, which was collected from 580 enterprises by the World Bank, the paper tests a null hypothesis that there is no association between gender and financial inclusion in the N...

In an anecdote, a university professor, who has done research on happiness for the rest of her life, invited students to talk about happiness. She gave each one a balloon, asked them to fill them with air, write their names on them, and release them in the air. In a short moment, the whole hall was full of balloons. She then asked each one to get t...

The paper examines if gender matters in the use of emails in the enterprises of Namibia. The paper is based on the usefulness of emails in business organizations, using the Namibia Enterprise Survey data collected from 580 enterprises by the World Bank in 2014/2015 in order to test a null hypothesis that there is no association in the use of emails...

Social norms comprise of “the rules and standards that are understood by members of a group, and that guide and/or constrain social behaviour without the force of laws. Social norms are the public rules of action and thought, acting as the backbone of societal habits, routines, and customs, and legal frames. In African settings, influence is organi...

This book is about how to make a difference. Acknowledging both our active agency that catalyses life, and the passive agency that weighs on us, the book builds on our worth, being, and desires to live a life of active agency by battling dischargers, cultivating chargers, borrowing a leaf elsewhere, believing in oneself, and being creative.

For many decades the worldwide expansion of supply and demand for skilled work has been at the heart of economic growth and development. In this paper, we use the 1991–2010 panel data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey in North West Tanzania to examine the work outcomes at the end of the panel of those who were young (7 to 24 years) in t...

Tanzanian legislation for women’s rights is a product of decades of indigenous women’s struggles and considered amongst the most progressive in Africa. However, implementation has been problematic and some elements in the current discourse appear to push back against gender equality with an essentialist framing of women and men as naturally differe...

This article takes the big data era as a starting point to examine common assumptions about confidentiality and privacy, arguing that confidentiality is a westernized notion that is currently facing various challenges because of the present shift toward the openness of data access across multiple platforms. We contend that the notion of privacy is...

We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of communitylevel social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the cont...

This paper presents eKichabi, a tool for retrieving contact information for agriculture-related enterprises in Tanzania. eKichabi is an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) application which users can access through basic mobile phones. We describe our focus groups, a design iteration, deployment in four villages, and follow up interviews...

This paper bases on the literature review to signify that women have been largely invisible in migration studies. It shows that there are different factors for migration, referred to as push and pull factors. Generally migration is considered as a strategy for livelihood promotion as people always migrate to seek better living condition. However, t...

The paper unpacks the narrative of gender-based violence (GBV) and makes a reflection within the patriarchal structure. The main argument in the paper is that gender-based violence victimizes the victim because of the rigid nature of the patriarchal discursive structure. Data for this paper has been collected in a higher learning institution in Dod...

The paper tries to establish if modern sanitation discourse has had an impact on the traditional sanitation discourse in Tanzania. This is done by exploring what people perceive as the problems of sanitation; how they try to deal with the problems; and the results of their actions in dealing with the perceived problems. The findings of the paper ar...

What we can see is that Tanzanians, being challenged with vulnerabilities and the hollow state with very little possibilities, have been able to organize themselves for service provision, on the one hand, and they are proud of the performance of their initiatives, on the other hand. It is cooperation at heart, with the principal pillar of trust at...

The main thrust of the paper is to explain how development problematization happens through unveiling the mini-discourses in the idea-sets of health, education, water, and sanitation. Literature review has been used to characterize the idea-sets in the context of Tanzania, revealing that there are some improvements in health, education, water, and...

The main thrust of the paper is to respond to the question as to how the livelihoods discursive elements have influenced the practice of Conservation Agriculture technologies among the cotton growers. Conservation Agriculture is being propagated by Lead Farmers who were trained in order to train others in the technologies. Qualitative data has been...

An assessment of Dutch bilateral development cooperation with Africa between 1998 and 2006 that was conducted by the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008 was critical of the policies and development strategies it evaluated. In the wake of the debate on the report’s findings and discussio...

This paper is a reflection on the methodology that was used for a study (Kamanzi forthcoming) entitled Connectedness in evolution: The discourse of modernity on the ecosophy of the Haya people in Tanzania.1 The monograph is about the thesis that the discourse of modernity has rendered eco-centered ecosophies more exploitative of the environment. Th...

The degrading environment is one of the major discussions of our time. The environmental challenges include acid rains, air pollution, global warming, hazardous waste disposal, ozone depletion, smog, water pollution, overpopulation, rainforest destruction, poverty, and soil erosion. The most affected areas include land, forests, water, the ozone la...

The objective of the present Study was to help uncover the “character of power” in villages and mitaa [streets] in Tanzania, specifically as related to decision-making about local development. It examined how power is exercised at the local level, and by whom. In addition, it sought to identify which opportunities are available for people living in...

This article has as main aim the examination of how modernity, through the revolutions in thinking about nature and economics, has led to exploitation of nature. In answering the question as to how the ethos of modernity has influenced the environmental degradation processes, the article argues that while the Baconian revolution inspires the push t...

With the liberalisation of the economic and political structures, Tanzania has experienced an outbreak of complex amalgamations, among which the farmers’ organisations. With these organisations, however, farmers are faced with a siphoning system from their representatives. Nonetheless, farmers, as active agents, are able to engage in organising pra...

Microfinance is one of the outspoken agents for the acceleration of development, particularly in rural areas. The belief lies in the observed excellent experience of transforming poverties into prosperities in some countries. However, testing this agency in some contexts reveals that it is not all that magic, but a mere expression of a modern devel...

This article is aimed at contributing to the ongoing debate on the identity of Development Studies. It argues that the discipline, which holds a chair for rural development theorisation, is currently in an introspection moment because of the loss of direction in its prophetic mission of addressing inequalities (due to giving up to the challenges of...

Whereas HIV/AIDS has been largely explained and addressed based on the biomedical and African permissive sexuality thesis perspectives, they are not exhaustive. This paper argues that a meaningful life discourse complements the existing approaches to improve our understanding of the reality of HIV/AIDS. Both of the older discourses have resulted in...

Despite many efforts to end the practice of female circumcision globally, it is still persistent in many countries, including Tanzania. Activists have given the practice various names reflecting their perceptions and values. Governments have taken strong positions against the practice. This study is aimed at finding out why female circumcision is s...

Education of the youth is one of the key aspects for any society because it inculcates in the youths those valuable things that the society needs for its future survival. The article argues that the current society is being faced with a critical situation of “decisively anti-people” role models for the youths. Such models are fruit of the modernity...

This paper begins from an assumption that Africa is currently 'celebrating violence'. For this matter, then, the paper tries to reflect on how we have come to celebrate violence, on the one hand, and on how we can strategise towards celebrating peace, on the other hand. In order to have the idea of violence clearly contextualised in Tanzania, the p...

This article, based in Bukoba District, Kagera Region, Tanzania, is about how the powerless in the discontents in donor globalisation processes manage to promote their livelihoods through engaging in organising practices. It is guided by the question: How do the powerless aid recipients manoeuvre their way out in the discontents of the donor global...

This paper presents ideas on the party politics, with special attention to Tanzania. It is geared towards answering a question as to why multi-party politics is losing popularity in Tanzania, from which to pull out lessons that other African countries. The paper discusses a range of issues and primarily suggests a re-thinking of the notion of oppos...

Kagera is one of the areas considered to be an epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Tanzania. This has been due to linking HIV/AIDS and the cross-border trade between Uganda and Tanzania, an activity that was due to lack of essential commodities after the Uganda-Tanzania War of 1978-1981. In a survey in the landing sites of Lake Victoria, where on...

This book is about the relationship between donors and aid recipients in bilateral development cooperation programmes. Using the example of the Dutch District Rural Development Programmes (DRDPs) in Bukoba, Tanzania, it examines the processes in which the aid beneficiaries are engaged, so that they can appropriate opportunities that accrue from the...