Switbert Kamazima

Switbert Rwechungura Kamazima, a MacArthur scholar, is a Ph. D. candidate (Sociology) at the University of Minnesota, USA. Mr. Kamazima is a teacher by profession, an adult-learning facilitator, and a demographer. He earned a diploma in education in 1981 from Mkwawa teachers' college Tanzania; a Bachelor degree in education from the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1988; and a Master of Arts degree (Demography) from the same university in 1995. His MA (Demography) thesis is titled: "Existence and Implications of Female Commercial Sex Workers in Urban Centres: A Case of Female Streetwalkers in the City of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania." In addition to classroom teaching experience and planning, implementing, and evaluating adult education programs in Tanzania, Mr. Kamazima has extensive experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research (in Tanzania) on issues related to primary and adult education, safe motherhood, gender and equality, and prostitution. One of his (co-written) field-research reports for UNICEF (Dar-es-Salaam office) is: "The Girl Child in Tanzania: Today's Girl Tomorrow's Woman" (1995). His current area of interest is Political Sociology focusing on issues of borders, boundaries, and nation-states; citizenship; regional integration; and globalization. Mr. Kamazima's Ph.D. dissertation research is about: "Borders, Boundaries, Peoples, and States: A Comparative Analysis of Post-independence Tanzania-Uganda Border Regions." He enjoys live music.