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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 ... -
What Do City Planners Need to Know?
(2015)Do university planning programs provide their graduates with the knowledge, skills and values they will require in their professional careers? A national on-line survey of planning practitioners finds that there is a close ... -
Socialising Government: Evaluating the Role of Social Media in Governance and Ethics in Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2015-01)Social media involves social networking sites, such as Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype, blogs, MySpace, YouTube, Instagram, and Weechat. Currently, social media is gaining popularity in the field of governance and ethics. ... -
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 ... -
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 Olunyala (K) Syllable Onset
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2015-11)Olunyala(K) is one of the more than 17 dialects of the Luyia language spoken in Western Kenya, East Africa (Angogo,1980; Guthrie, 1967; Osogo,1966). The purpose of the study was to ... -
The confession of a criminal woman: An interrogation of Saga McOdongo's Deadly Money Maker
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-11)Autobiographical writing in Kenya, specifically crime writing, is dominated by male writers. Hence, Saga McOdongo's autobiography, Deadly Money Maker, is unique because it is one of its kind, written by a Kenyan woman ... -
Uncovering Cloze Testing Practices in Selected Practice Papers for Primary Schools in Kenya
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2016)Reading comprehension is probably the most prominently tested skill in upper primary classes in Kenya. Most test papers, for instance, comprise a fifteen-item cloze test, a fictional passage and a factual one both of which ... -
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 ... -
Sustainable Product Design Strategies for Women Empowerment in Kenya
(2016)The design of products is a major tool for women empowerment in the world’s developing countries. Women and especially those living in the rural peripheries as well as slum areas, shoulder the burden of the world’s poverty. ... -
The Sheng Identity, Cultural Background and Their Influence on Communication in Academic Endevours: The Case of Machakos University College
(International Journal of Social Science and Economics Invention, 2016)Young people in Kenya want to be identified with Sheng and some, in addition, want to be identified with their cultures. Sheng is a slang language originating in Nairobi, Kenya, spoken by the ... -
COMMUNITY THEATRE AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES IN NYANZA REGION, KENYA
(Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies, 2016)Positing Community Theatre as a site and agency for development, an effective way to share information and encourage community dialogue, this paper interrogates practices and efficacies of Community Theatre in Nyanza, ... -
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 ... -
Designing for Informal Contexts: A Case Study of Enkanini Sanitation Intervention
(Chinese Institute of Design, 2016)Increasing social agency in the design profession corresponds to the call for greater participation of science in solving complex social problems. We analyse the complex problem of informal urban sanitation in the Enkanini ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
POPULAR MUSIC AND IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG KENYAN YOUTH
(Journal of Music Research in Africa, 2017)The role of music in the formation and shaping of identity cannot be gainsaid since music represents an important cultural sphere where identities are affirmed, challenged, torn apart and reconstructed. ... -
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 ...