Aaron is a lecturer and researcher specializing in comparative politics and politics of development, with a particular focus on democratization, political parties, and party systems in Africa.
He serves as a Lecturer of Political Science in the Department of Government and Management Studies at the University of Zambia’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Concurrently, he is advancing his doctoral research as a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His thesis investigates the complex interplay between clientelism and institutionalization of political parties in Zambia.
He holds a Master of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a Master in Intellectual Property from Africa University, Zimbabwe. His research portfolio bridges the fields of political party dynamics and policy-relevant studies, as evidenced by his recent co-authored contribution to the volume “Dominant Parties as Governments in Southern Africa” and Parliamentary Female Representation and Party Candidate Selection Methods in Zambia in Ojo, (2025: 87-110), African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder’s Participation
- Ndambwa, B.J. & Siwale, A.W. (2025). Parliamentary Female Representation and Party Candidate Selection Methods in Zambia. In Ojo (Ed.), African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder's Participation (pp. 87–110). UJ Press.
- Siwale, A.W. & Ndambwa, B.J. (2023). Democratisation and the Survival of Liberation Movements in Southern Africa: The Case of Zambia's UNIP. In Blaauw and Zaire (Eds.), Dominant Parties as Governments in Southern Africa (pp. 137–153). Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
- Ndambwa, B.J. & Siwale, A.W. (2022). Reinterpreting Domestic Sources of Zambia's Foreign Policy: The Party and the President. Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy, 3(1).
- Siwale, A.W. & Momba, J.C. (2020). Party Funding: A Crisis of Zambia's Multiparty Politics (1991–2016). In Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia (pp. 195–210). Brill.
- Siwale, A.W. (2016). The Survival of Political Parties in Consolidating Democracies: A Qualitative Case Study of Zambian Political Parties 1991–2015 (Master's thesis). University of Gothenburg.
- Comparative Politics (political parties, party systems, elections and electoral systems),
- Environmental Politics and Institutions