chiwanga

Professional biography

Biography:Comrade Fredrick Chiwanga is a lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Recreation, Sokoine University of Agriculture. rural development and livelihood strategies, farmer’s institutions (groups and cooperatives), group’s dynamics (formations and management). Currently, he is a National Coordinator of two JICA’s funded projects in Tanzania as well as a research team member of the Timber Rush project in Sothern Highlands, funded by DANIDA.
Besides, Comrade Chiwanga is one of the renowned competent translators and conference interpreters. He is a member of professional associations including the East Africa Interpreters and Translators Association.
When Comrade Chiwanga joined SUA, he had worked in the Tourism industry for about 8 years as a courier, among other titles, who could lead VIP tourist convoys to different tourist destinations including national parks, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Mt Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa.
He is passionate about teaching, consultancies (interpreting, translation, editing, proofreading), research, and outreach programmes.
As for the teaching, he is fond of teaching English and French as foreign languages, Kiswahili to foreigners, also cultural tourism, tour guiding and interpretation techniques.
With regard to consultancies and outreach programmes, Comrade Chiwanga deals with rapporteuring, transcription, teaching language for Specific purposes, and organising tours and safaris apart from the conference interpreting and translation.
Comrade Chiwanga has also edited and proofread a good number of scholarly works (Research papers, Masters & PhD Dissertations/Theses) from various univeristies and other related works from NGOs at national and international levels.
Specific areas that he likes researching include the language of tourism, oral communicative competence, translation, interpretation, discourse analysis, language and culture, onomastics, historical linguistics, diplomatic interactions, sign language, cultural norms, and human-wildlife interaction, to mention a few.

Academic qualification

PhD (Area Studies leave)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
M.A. (Linguistics) UDSM; D.U.
M.A. (French) Stendhal-Grenoble 3 Univ., France
B.A. (Language Studies) UDSM
Dipl. (French) France, Dipl. (Tourism) PEN-CBE, Dodoma
Cert. (International Relations & Diplomacy), CFR, DSM

Research projects

Consultancies

Interpreting Services (English < >French, English < >Kiswahili; French < >Kiswahili):
1. Budget Estimates of the Revenues and Expenditures for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation for the 2018/2019 Fiscal Year (Interpreted for Ambassadors and other Diplomats present), The 11th Parliament of Tanzania, Dodoma, 23 May 2018
2. La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa (LVCSEAf) Climate Justice Event ( Food sovereignty & Agroecology), Harare, Zimbabwe, 14-17 May, 2018
3. Differentiated Resilience in Agri-Food Chains, MVIWATA, 23 April 2018
4. Consultative Forum on Health Financing Strategy and National Health Insurance in Tanzania, 12 April 2018, World Bank, WHO, USAID and P4H, Moreno Hotel Dodoma
5. Tanzania Grandmothers Gathering, Mt Meru Hotel, Arusha, Stephen Lewis Foundation, 26 Feb – 1 March 2018
6. 4th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference, Dodoma Hotel, 14 February 2018
7. CCM’s 9th General Assembly (Interpreting for Ambassadors), Dodoma CCM Hall, 18 Dec. 2017
8. Data for Decision Making – Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation Capacity Building workshop, NSSF Conference Hall, Kigoma, 28-30 Nov. 2017
9. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Bamako Mali and Guinea Conakry from 26 Oct. to 24 Nov. 2017
10. 7th NSSF Stakeholders’ Conference, AICC Arusha, 18-20 Oct. 2017 (English < >Kiswahili/ French)
11. GEF Land Degradation Monitoring Project, Vital Signs, Nashera Hotel, Morogoro, 2-6 Oct. 2017
12. CDC Foundation Capacity Building workshop, Lake Tanganyika Hotel, Kigoma,18-19 Sep. 2017
13. Tanzania National EGRA/EGMA Capacity Building workshop, Sea Cliff Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 24-28 July 2017
14. 7th Sugar Industry Stakeholders’ Forum, Nashera Hotel, Morogoro, 30th June 2017
15. African Business Connect 2017: Multisectoral B 2 B / B 2 G Mission, BMCE Bank of Africa, 6 April 2017
16. The Annual SAGCOT Partnership Forum 2017: Unleashing Agricultural Opportunities. Kisenga LAPF International Conference Centre, 10 March 2017
17. Training in Trauma Counselling for People Working with Albinism. Under the Same Sun. Gold Crest Hotel, Mwanza 17-20 Jan. 2017
18. 6th NSSF Stakeholders’ Conference. AICC Arusha, 20-21 Oct. 2016 (English < > French)
19. Effective Oversight Parliamentary Accounts Committees (PAC & LAAC). Canada CCAF, Morogoro Hotel, 13 -15 April, 2016
20. African Agricultural Transformation Strategy, African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. New Africa Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 8 March 2016
21. Parliamentarian and Civil Society Session: Investing in Health. White Sands Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 7 March 2016
22. Fish-i Africa, Nordenfjeldske Development Services (NFDS), Zanzibar Beach Resort, 1-3 Dec. 2015
23. Opening of the 11th National Assembly of Tanzania (interpreted the President’s inaugural speech) Parliamentary Services Commission, The Parliament of Tanzania, Dodoma, 20 Nov. 2015
24. African Group on Statistical Training (AGROST) Meeting, Economic Commission for Africa, Golden Tulip Hotel, Dar es Salaam, 3-6 Nov. 2015
25. Africa Open Data Conference, Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, JNICC, DSM, 4-6 Sep. 2015
26. Training on Nutrition Assessment and Surveillance. SADC, SUA & UKAid, Kingsway Hotel, Morogoro, 16-27 Feb. 2015
27. Disaster Preparedness & Response Plan for the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar – The Prime Minister’s office. USAID. Zanzibar Beach Hotel, 9-13 Feb. 2015

Translation Services (English > French, English > Kiswahili; Kiswahili > English):

1. DRC – Tanzania cases, Emesu & Co. Advocates, March, 2018
2. Tanzania Grandmothers Gathering (OVC/MVC issues), Mt Meru Hotel, Arusha, 26 Feb – 1 March 2018
3. UNFPA, Mali and Guinea Conakry from 26 Oct. to 24 Nov. 2017
4. History of table tennis in Western countries – China paper work – 2017
5. Prevalence of trypanosome infections in cattle and tsetse flies in the Maasai steppe, northern Tanzania – PI WHO/TDR Project – 2016
6. Community knowledge and attitudes towards tsetse and trypanosomiasis at the human-wildlife interface of the Maasai steppe, northern Tanzania – PI WHO/TDR Project – 2016
7. Tsetse abundance and infection rates in relation to host availability and habitat in the Maasai steppe – PI WHO/TDR Project – 2016
8. Seasonality of tsetse fly abundance and prevalence of trypanosome infections in Emboreet village in Simanjiro – PI WHO/TDR Project – 2016
9. Pastoralists’ vulnerabilities to Trypanosomiasis and adaptation strategies in Simanjiro and Monduli – PI WHO/TDR Project – 2016
10. Agreement for the Establishment of a User Pay Fee for Sustainable Funding of the Dar-es- Salaam Corridor– the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Republic of Zambia – 2016
11. Taarifa ya Mafunzo ya Kilimo cha Kisasa kwa Kutumia Teknolojia ya Kitalu Nyumba yaliyofanyika kwa Wakulima mbali mbali katika Mikoa Kumi, Tanzania Bara – Right Way for Development (RIWADE) – 2016
12. The Agreement for the Establishment of the Dar es Salaam Corridor – the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Republic of Zambia – 2016

Community work

List of publications

Book

Book chapters

Journal articles

  1.  Chiwanga, F.E. & Iddy, S. (2017). Competence in French connected speech: A study on Tanzanian pre-service secondary school French teachers. Education Research Journal, 7(6), 117-122.
  2. Iddy, S. & Chiwanga, F.E. (2017). Is the learner-centred approach indeed adopted in the teaching-learning of French in O – level state secondary schools in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania? Education Research Journal, 7(6), 123-133.
  3. Mkiramweni, N.P., Delacy, T., Jiang, M., & Chiwanga, F.E. (2016). Climate change risks on protected areas ecotourism: Shocks and stressors perspectives in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Journal of Ecotourism. doi: 10.1080/14724049.2016.1153645
  4. Chiwanga, F.E. (2014a). Understanding the language of tourism: Tanzanian perspective. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 24(2), 147-200.
  5. Chiwanga, F.E. (2014b). Assessment of English language oral communicative competence: A case of tour guides in Arusha, Tanzania (Master’s Thesis, UDSM, Tanzania).
  6. Chiwanga, F.E. (2011a). Pourquoi les enseignants de FLE en Tanzanie n’arrivent pas à résoudre les problèmes de prononciation de leurs apprenants au niveau secondaire malgré de longues périodes d’enseignement/apprentissage? (Master’s dissertation, University of Grenoble 3, France.
  7. Chiwanga, F.E. (2011b). Stop off-road driving to save small animals, Kakakuona: Wildlife Magazine 57.1: 11–13.
  8. Chiwanga, F.E. (2011c). Rats can excel in explosion and TB sputum detection. Kakakuona: Tanzania Wildlife Magazine 57.1: 33-37.
  9. Chiwanga, F.E. (2016, November). Language for specific purposes: A case of French for tourism in Tanzania. A paper presented under the theme “East African Community: Exchanging and Trading with the Francophone World” at the EAC Headquarters, Tanzania.
  10. Chiwanga, F.E. & Delabie, A. (n.d). Les erreurs phonétiques fossilisées chez les enseignants tanzaniens de FLE dans les écoles secondaires publiques à Ilala, Dar es Salaam: Analyse et propositions de remédiation (in press).
  11. Chiwanga, F.E., & Mkiramweni, N.P. (n.d.). Ethno-ornithological classification and onomastics in the Natta community in Serengeti, Tanzania (in press)
  12. Chiwanga, F.E., Sererya, G. O., Modest, R., & Mangewa, L. (n.d.). Anthropogenic activities in Selous Game Reserve and adjacent villages and their effects on conservation and tourism business (in press).
  13. Chiwanga, F.E., Kideghesho, J.R., & Sererya, G.O. (n.d.). How local and religious beliefs affect natural resources and tourism sustainability: A study on Ngarambe villages adjacent to Selous Game Reserve (on progress).
  14. Chiwanga, F.E., Sengelela, M. & Marwa, P.E. (n.d.). Can ethno-botany promote medicinal tourism in Kibosho forest edge villages, Kilimanjaro? (on progress).
  15. Chiwanga, F.E. & Maro, O.G. (n.d.). Opportunities, challenges and strategies in developing cultural tourism in Morogoro: Can Solomon Mahlangu and Dakawa camps form potential tourist destinations? (on progress).

Training/seminars/Conference proceedings

Working papers

Positions

Lecturer

Contacts

Fredrick Chiwanga
Department of Languages studies
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Sokoine University of Agriculture,
P.O. Box: 3167
Phone: +255 784 448 881
Email:fchiwanga@sua.co.tz