School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Challenges of Kenya’s Vision 2030 and the Jubilee Manifesto: the Case of Old People Cash Transfer Pension Scheme in Nakuru County
(Redfame Publishing, 2015)Most Kenyans lack financial resources for retirement and rely on their families, yet the family is becoming a less reliable source of support in old age due to decreasing fertility and the increasing mobility of the young. ... -
A Cognitive Analysis of Meta phorical euphemisms of death in Kenyan Newspaper Obtuaries
(Infogain Publication, 2018)This paper examines metaphorical euphemisms of death appearing in Kenyan newspaper using the theoretical framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory as initiated by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). Obituaries are used to publicly ... -
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 ... -
Syntactic Aspects in Text Messaging
(Sciedu Press, 2011)Online interactive media such as text messaging has influenced syntactic aspects of language. In order to determine how text messaging has resulted in paradigm shift in the traditional uses of language, this paper explores ... -
Community Theatre and Development Practices in the Nyanza Region of Kenya
(2015)Positing Community Theatre as an agency for development and is an effective way to encourage community dialogue, this article interrogates practices and efficacies of Community Theatre in Nyanza, ... -
Pedagogical Aspects of Riddles: A Critical Examination of Abagusii Riddles
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013)This paper is based on a critical examination of pedagogical aspects of riddles among the Abagusii community and opines that riddles play an important role in the education system of notonlychildren but ... -
Power and Gendered Identities: (Re) Configuring the Gendered Self in Kenyan Drama
(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013)Studies of power and gender identity form part of the dominant discourses of various scholars such as Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Margaret Hall, Michel Foucault, and Gloria Anzaldua who have explored the ... -
Reading the Story of Jesus Christ as an Epic
(Cultural and Religious Studies, 2015)There is no doubt that Jesus Christ is the eternal embodiment of the Christian faith. The story of salvation, especially the life of Jesus, forms the basis through which many Christians encounter the ... -
The Criminalization of Youth in Popular Art in Kenya
(The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018)Couched on cultural criminology, this article presents a critical exegesis of how popular cultural productions in Kenya mediate the “criminal” label among youth in Kenya using purposively selected ... -
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. ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Crop Diversification as a Determinant of Household Decision-Making in the Production of Roselle Plant in Mwea Sub-County, Kenya
(International Journal of Social S ciences and Information Technology, 2018-05)This study sought to analyze crop diversification as a determinant of household decision making towards production of the Roselle plant. The study employed a stratified sampling technique which involves dividing ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Radicalization as a Functional Aspect of Crime
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2017-11)Radicalization into extremism and terrorism is a controversial topic amongst scholars on the approaches used to understand the phenomenon. This paper examine some theories on the subject and the debate raging amongst ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
