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Effect of Training on Hazard Prevention on Performance of Cement Manufacturing Firms in Kenya
(Research Publish Journals, 2019)This study sought to find out the effect of hazard prevention training on the performance of cement manufacturing companies in Kenya. Manufacturing firms are spending a lot of money to take care of their workers’ absenteeism ... -
The Effects of Participatory Forest Management Projects on the Livelihoods of Communities Adjacent to Forests
(International Journal of Social Sciences and Information Technology, 2016-01)This study examines the effects of participatory forest management projects on the livelihoods of communities adjacent to forests.Previously, such projects were government led through a top-down ... -
An Evaluation of the Treatment of Application Letters and Reports in Core Kenyan form Three English Course Books
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017)Functional writing is an important skill since it involves writing for real life purposes. It should fit the intended purpose, audience and context. Despite the centrality of this form of writing, it has been performed ... -
From Technauriture to Cultauriture: Developing a Coherent Digitisation Paradigm for Enhancing Cultural Impac
(International Journal of Society, Culture and Language, 2017-07)Developing suitable frameworks and paradigms (theoretical and practical) is a challenge for all disciplines in the face of rapid technological changes. Technological advances are fundamentally changing discourse in many ... -
The Functions Of Olutura Sounds
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2018)The aim of this study was to identify the sounds that occur in Olutura so as to develop a phonetic inventory and to show how these sounds function in this dialect. A purposive sampling technique was used to identify native ... -
Gender Disparities in Water Resource Management Projects in Njoro Sub-County, Kenya
(Redfame Publishing, 2015)Gender disparities are of major concern, in water resources management because men and women play different roles and have different rights on water usage and it is important to take in account the interest of both genders ... -
A genre Analysis of the Scholarly Electronic Mail: Implications for Pedagogy
(University of Isfahan, 2018)Scholarly mails apparently display stable conventional principles as an emerging genre. Thus, contributors should structure their electronic mails appropriately when writing for purposes of discussing professional topics. ... -
Group identities in Kenyan SMS messages
(University of the Free State, 2010)Short Message Service (SMS) as a new form of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) seems to dissolve interaction and social hierarchies, thus resulting in the emergence of social groups. To determine how SMS has resulted ... -
The Illusion of Truth in Three Kenyan Crime Novels
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-05)Focusing on crime autobiography in Kenya, this article reads John Kiriamiti’s three novels, My Life in Crime (1984), My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story (1989) and My Life in Prison (2004) to argue that although the ... -
Influence of Selected Socio-cultural Practices on Internal Efficiency in Selected Public Technical Training Institutes in Baringo County, Kenya
(2018)Education forms the basis upon which economic, social and political development of any nation is founded. It is one of the basic human rights that are universally proclaimed as many countries in the world aim at attaining ... -
Influence of Selected Socio-Cultural Practices on Internal Efficiency in Selected Public Technical Training Institutesin Baringo County, Kenya
(International Journal of Science and Research, 2016)Education forms the basis upon which economic, social and political development of any nation is founded. It is one of the basic human rights that are universally proclaimed internationally as many countries in the world ... -
INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A CASE STUDY OF MAU-NAROK DIVISION IN NJORO SUB-COUNTY
(2015)In Kenya women are confined at some definite work, position and role which generally differ to men in society.Their status is seen as below that of men in patriarchal social structure. The situation is more or less remaining ... -
Intersections of the knowledge-power nexus as a precursor to (dis)empowerment and resistance in the poetry of Maya Angelou
(International Journal of Research and Scholarly Communication, 2021-03-13)This article investigates how knowledge and its recursive relation with power is manifested in the poetry of Maya Angelou. It analyses how various contexts, such as the social, political, cultural and ... -
Intersections of voice and agency as strategies for power and resistance in the poetry of Maya Angelou
(Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 2021-03-13)This article sought to analyse intersections of voice and agency in the poetry of Maya Angelou. It explores how various discourses of marginalization such as those of gender, race and class inform knowledge production ... -
Kenyan English Monophthongs: An Element Theory Approach
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017)This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English (KenE) monophthongs and uses those characteristics to identify the phonemes and also to determine the internal Element Theory ... -
Learning about author positioning in written academic discourse
(Argentinian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013-11)Graduate students are usually not sure of the appropriate stance to take in relation to their writing. Even style guides provide little information regarding authorial positioning in academic texts. This paper describes ... -
Lexical Change: Naming of the Months of the Year in Ekegusii
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2016)This paper documents the native terms used to name the months of the year in EkeGusii. EkeGusii is a language spoken by a Bantu speaking community (AbaGusii) in the South Western part of Kenya. It is a language with a rich ... -
Market Integration as a Determinant of Household Decision - Making in the Production of Roselle Plant in Mwea Sub - County
(International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2015-10)This study sought to analyze market integration as determinant of household decision-making in the production of Roselle plant in Mwea Sub-County. This study employed a descriptive survey since this ... -
The Morphophonemics of Vowel Compensatory Lengthening in Ekegusii
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-09)Literature shows that not much is known about the prosodic systems in Ekegusii, a Bantu language spoken by about 2.2 million people in south western Kenya. This paper presents an analysis of vowel compensatory lengthening ... -
Need for Integration of Indigenous Healing Into Western Psychosocial Interventions in Trauma Healing Among Victims of Armed Conflict in South Sudan
(Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research (JEPER), 2015-05)The epistemological terrain upon which indigenous and Western psychosocial approaches in trauma healing traverse is not level. This has resulted in superficial dichotomies between the two healing approaches, thereby ...