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  • PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE - An Inward Journey to Authentic Existence
    2025

    This book, Philosophy of Life: An Inward Journey to Authentic Existence, is an exploration of these profound inquiries. It is not merely an academic exercise but a heartfelt attempt to navigate the complexities of human existence. Rooted in both ancient and modern philosophical traditions as well as personal insights, it offers perspectives on the nature of suffering, the pursuit of wisdom, and the intricate balance between reason and emotion. The pages ahead invite you to contemplate the essence of what it means to be alive, urging you to seek clarity in uncertainty and purpose in chaos.

     

  • A HISTORICAL DECONSTRUCTION OF ANIMAL TRYPANOSOMIASIS IN KWIMBA DISTRICT, TANZANIA 1920s-1970s.
    2024

    The historiography of African trypanosomiasis is featured by a lopsided relationship between studies on human and animal trypanosomiasis.There exists too much leaning in historical scholarship towards the study of human trypanosomiasis while there is a handful studies on animal trypanosomiasis. Studies on animal trypanosomiasis have focused at national and regional levels, covering colonial period while lacking local people's response. These studies provide a room for historical analysis of animal trypanosomiasis control and local people's response at a local level and over a long historical period from colonial to post-colonial periods. This paper constructs the history of animal trypanosomiasis control and local people's responses in Kwimba district from the 1920s to the 1970s. The paper argues that bush clearing in Kwimba district was an important veterinary intervention in controlling animal trypanosomiasis under the period of study though local people's response varied from acceptance to rejection at different times. The paper contributes knowledge on understanding African governments' initiatives to control animal trypanosomiasis at a local level over a long historical period from colonial to post-colonial period. Furthermore, the paper is crucial in redressing knowledge gap between human and animal trypanosomiasis since historians have focused more attention on human than animal trypanosomiasis.

     

  • Private Sector Investment in Tanzania: A Viewpoint in the Creation of Employment Opportunities
    Vol. 9 (2024)

    This study assessed private sector investment and the creation of employment opportunities in Tanzania.The study employed a cross-sectional research design.The questionnaire was completed by 181 people,and the semi- structured interview was conducted by 16 people.The objective one,which assessed the level of private sector investment in the creation of employment opportunities,was analysed descriptively.With the aid of SPSS version 21, responses on the level of private sector investment in the creation of employment opportunities were captured using a five-point Likert scale. Objectives two on the challenges facing the private sector's investment and three on the best actions to be taken to improve the private sector's investment towards the creation of employment opportunities were analysed through content analysis.The study found that there was evidence that private sector investment in the study area resulted in job creation.However,private sector investment is hampered by difficulties that hinder Tanzania's efforts to create the required job opportunities.Hence,policymakers and the government should improve the operating environment for private sector investment and improve the communication mechanisms to capture private sector potential in employment creation in Tanzania.

     

  • I HATE DIVORCE: An Insight into the Nature of Marriage and Causes of Family Crises and Divorce
    2024

    One of the institutions that have faced multiple challenges in our modern time is the institution of marriage. For so many in the west, marriage is outdated, accounting for the crashing of several marriages annually. For some who come into marriage, there is the difficulty of remaining in marriage, accounting for the rise in divorce cases. In the face of several questions emerging about marriage, from where shall come the answers needed? In this book titled: I Hate Divorce: An Insight into the Nature of Marriage and Causes of family Crises, Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip, has not only shown the value and potential of marriage but responded to emerging fundamental questions bordering on divorce.

    The Code of Canon Law defines Catholic marriage using key concepts (Can 1055, 1°): permanent, lifetime, intimate, consensual and exclusive partnership. This implies that, while marriage and remarriage are possible, the Catholic Church has no place for divorce in marriage. However, there is separation and dissolution. In the case of separation, the person is considered to be in good standing and is entitled to participate fully in the spiritual and sacramental life of the Church. However, the divorced and remarried without a Declaration of Invalidity is only entitled to participate in a limited way. The absence of divorce in the lexicon of Catholic Sacramental Theology has shaped the thoughts of Fr. Peter in this beautiful piece of ten chapters.

    The author, therefore, presents marriage as a permanent, intimate, consensual and exclusive partnership or community of life and love; an institution established by the Creator and endowed by Him with its own proper laws. Fr. Peter holds that God has inscribed this union in the very nature of man and woman, not just as a covenant relationship but as a vocation through which God is loved and served. Given the fundamental place that marriage occupies in God's plan and in the life of the Church, it is commendable that Fr. Bakwaph is marking his 50th birthday anniversary with the gift of a book on marriage to the Church. Taking from the benefits of his several years of experience as a pastor and teacher, he combined insightful imagination and originality in substantially treating the issues surrounding divorce. This gives this piece a unique behavour.

    For all these reasons, it is an honour and my pleasure to salute this splendid achievement with a foreword. I, therefore, strongly recommend this book for all who treasure good theological/spiritual literature; and most especially for anyone who wishes to be abreast with important teachings and developments on marriage and divorce. Pastors, teachers, experts, researchers, undergraduate and post-graduate students, beginners and casual readers within and outside the parameters of theology are bound to treasure the usefulness of Fr. Peter's unique contribution to knowledge.

     

  • EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS
    2024

    I consider writing this foreword beyond mere honor done me, for two broad reasons; firstly, having spent twenty-five (25) years in the university system, Professing for over a decade now and still counting, I was tempted to rationalize that very little is left unstudied in the field of Educational Management and Policy. This text titled EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS; APPLICATION OF BASIC CONCEPTS IN ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION has proven this axiom that I considered germane by default very dogmatic and otherwise. The advent of this creative approach in this new addition to the subject, authored by Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip, an Associate Professor in Educational Management, has not only educated me and my co-travelers, who hold the same shade of opinion on the subject, but has equally through this humbled effort made us comprehend in lucid language through its logical analysis that much is yet to be covered and indeed studied in the discipline that has today become very sophisticated at a higher level of scholarship, and even much subscribed, at postgraduate level. Secondly, this in itself has exemplified the beauty of knowledge generation that cannot be pidgin- held or compartmentalized.

    The Text Educational Management and Policy Analysis; Application of Basic Concepts in Administration of Higher Education is segmented into twenty-two (22) chapters and each deals with a fundamental aspect of Educational Management that is tangential to the administration of higher education. The book further dissects its anatomy in simple and comprehensive language for the reader's delight. What is of scientific interest is the gamut of relevant evidence of minute details and eyes for mechanical accuracy in the presentation of facts within the discipline under review, which is very commendable. More so, the combination of the author's ecclesiastical background further shaped the direction of thoughts with Christian charity, and ethics in the promotion of effective administration of higher education which was hitherto a deficient component now made available. This blend of background reflective on the text has shown the capacity of creating a Womuo Universale and proactive menials, men of virtue with unpolluted integrity in the management of educational enterprise rather than a cacophony of neophytes in the field who merely exhibited gaps and distortions in knowledge for which this current effort aspired and has corrected.

    From a collection of the twenty two (22) chapters x-rayed and painstakingly written, the scholar addressed the conventional and innovative educational management approaches from both national and international perspectives. The thinking of this publication is to arrive at a position common to varied stakeholders whose interests on the subject are affected, a movement towards systematic planning from the angle of participatory planning, a basic step in policy design and formulation.

    Generally, the text has charted a cause of action in a new educational management trajectory. It is convincing that this humble effort has provided a leeway as a policy guide to overcoming the frontal issues that are today exacerbated by leadership crises in some less developed countries of the world, as noted by the erudite scholar, Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip in his text. The evidence adduced in this edition on Educational Management is very adequate to market the contents as a credible product itself. Accordingly, I am strongly recommending this text to government bureaucrats, parents, proprietors of schools, education administrators, lecturers and students, particularly, at the tertiary level to share in the lessons therefrom, to bring about an informed and improved educational management architecture for the globe, for which Nigeria is not an exception.

     

  • THE ECHOES OF ORE SECTOR
    2022

    ‘The Echoes of Ore Sector of the Nigerian/Biafran Civil War,’ reminds one of the encounters between the Nigerian and Biafran soldiers during the 30 month’s old civil war (1967-1970). The narratives presented by the author, disclosed how the Biafran troops ventured to liberate the Mid-West Region of Nigeria, and perhaps, capture Lagos, the then capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, where Dodan Barracks, which housed the Nigerian Army Headquarters, and the abode of the, then, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, (Lt.-Col.)General Yakubu Gowon, was situated. The Biafran Leader appointed a Military Governor for the Region, in the person of Major Albert Okonkwo, and thereafter, the Region was renamed the ‘Republic of Benin.’
    The speed with which the Biafran soldiers swept across Benin and Ore within a space of two weeks, seemed to make their thoughts and strategies realisable, but the reported disagreements between the Biafran Leader, (Lt.-Col.) General Chukwuemaka Odumegwu Ojukwu, and the alleged inordinate ambitions of the war lords fighting on the Biafran side, frustrated and delayed the advance of the Biafran troops to Lagos. The Federal troops, on the other hand, capitalized on that conflict that afflicted the Biafran war planners, and launched a devastating counter attack at all the sectors in the Mid- West Region, and drove back the Biafran troops with the same speed with which they invaded the Mid-West.
    One can infer from the narratives that the Biafran troops were ill-trained, ill-equipped and unprepared for such enormous and excruciating task of attempting to liberate an autonomous Region in the midst of mistrust among the warring parties. Such mistrust could not be immediately changed to earn the confidence of the Obas/Traditional Rulers and some powerful first Republic Politicians from the Mid-West Region.
    Inference can also be drawn from what transpired in the Ore sector of the war to judge federal government’s favourable execution of the war in other sectors of the Nigerian/Biafran war. Though it took 30 months to achieve that feat, the blockades of Biafran territories by land, air and sea; and the use of starvation as an instrument of warfare, were, visible, veritable tools of war that played powerful roles in the achievement of that purpose.
    The inevitable lesson to be learnt from the entire gory tales rendered above is that war can never be an option to resolving conflicts; instead a round-table conference whereby giving/taking from both sides on the burning issues should not be neglected. The position of the federal government of ‘No Victor, No Vanquished’ was expected to reflect on the promise of ‘Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation’ (the 3 Rs). Your guess on the implementation of those promises is as good as mine. Nothing is too late for the living. Total embrace of Dialogue, at all fronts, therefore, to resolve all the conflicts raging across the entire nation, can never be over-emphasized.
    I quite agree with the author that CHANGE, (from negativity to positivity), which is very constant, and a very powerful tool in making or marring critical, vital and favourable decisions in conflict resolution, should be embraced by all the actors and actresses engaged in the struggle to see a peaceful, united and prosperous country like ours. Let us put the country first before self in all spheres of our daily endeavours, and everything will surely fall into place.
    This book will, no doubt, afford the readers the opportunity to have sober and sincere reflections on the need to always consult and dialogue over burning issues than to plunge into unwanted and undesirable war with its woeful, destructive and regrettable consequences.