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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Popular Art and the Reconfiguration of Political Intolerance in Kenya
(Imbizo, 2022-05)Political intolerance is a recurrent feature in any general election in Kenya. The charged political atmosphere during elections has often seen heated verbal tiffs among politicians and supporters of opposing political ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Power Sharing and Political Inclusion in Post-Accord Democracies: Lessons from Zimbabwe and Kenya
(2014)Power sharing and political inclusion have long been espoused as solutions for states where ethnic, religious, or racial divides threaten to undermine a democratic transition. This type of resolution is designed to provide ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Recognizing and Strengthening the Role of the Njuri Ncheke in Devolved Governance in Meru County, Kenya
(Journal of Educational Policy and Entrepreneurial Research (JEPER), 2015)After fifty years of mixed fortunes in governance, Kenyans hope that the devolved system of governance as enshrined in chapter eleven of the Constitution fulfills the potential the country anticipated since independence. ... -
Reflections on the genre-based approach to the teaching of thesis writing
(2018)This paper discusses how the genre-based approach can be employed in the teaching thesis writing in the universities. An analysis of six theses drawn from public universities in Kenya revealed that generic features fulfil ... -
The Role of African Traditional Religion, Culture and World-View in the Context of Post- War Healing among the Dinka Community of Southern Sudan
(Centre for Promoting Ideas, 2012-11)This article explores how the Dinka concept of health and illness is filtered and interpreted through religion, culture and world-view. Health and illness have a broader dimension that includes the religious, cultural, ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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. ... -
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 ...