School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Youth Employability: Fostering University-Industry Links in Syllabus Design

Maroko, Geoffrey Mokua; Ndivo, Larry Mutinda (EAST AFRICANNATURE & SCIENCEORGANIZATION, 2021)

The potential of young people to be agents of social and economic progress continues to be undermined by massive unemployment. According to statistics on the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender ...

Intersections of voice and agency as strategies for power and resistance in the poetry of Maya Angelou

Kaberia, Teresia (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 ...

Intersections of the knowledge-power nexus as a precursor to (dis)empowerment and resistance in the poetry of Maya Angelou

Kaberia, Teresia; Ndivo, Larry (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 ...

An African Learning Network on Sustainability for the development and diffusion of teaching materials and tools on Design for Sustainability in an open-source and copyleft ethos

Vezzoli, Carlo; Ceschin, Fabrizio; M’Rithaa, Mugendi (CARMA, 2009)

It is a shared opinion that sustainable development requires a system discontinuity, meaning that radical changes in the way we produce and consume are needed. Within this framework there is an emerging understanding that ...

Designing for Informal Contexts: A Case Study of Enkanini Sanitation Intervention

Ambole, Lorraine Amollo; Swilling, Mark; M’Rithaa, Mugendi K. (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 ...

What Do City Planners Need to Know?

Saghir, Chade; Sands, Gary; Wambu, Charles (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 ...

Reflections on the genre-based approach to the teaching of thesis writing

Maroko, Geoffrey Mokua (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 ...

A genre Analysis of the Scholarly Electronic Mail: Implications for Pedagogy

Malandi, Anne Bancy; Maroko, Geoffrey Mokua (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. ...

What Do City Planners Need to Know? When Do They Need to Know It?

Saghir, Chade; Sands, Gary; Wambu, Charles (2014)

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 ...

INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A CASE STUDY OF MAU-NAROK DIVISION IN NJORO SUB-COUNTY

Wambu, Charles (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 ...

Influence of Selected Socio-Cultural Practices on Internal Efficiency in Selected Public Technical Training Institutesin Baringo County, Kenya

Nkatha, Lydia; Wambu, Charles (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 ...

Tense Usage in Selected Humanities and Science Dissertations

Maroko, Geoffrey M.; Kiai, Alice (2014)

Graduate students are usually not sure of the appropriate tense to use in each rhetorical section of their dissertations in their disciplines. Even style guides provide little information regarding tense usage ...

The Functions Of Olutura Sounds

Etakwa, Everlyn; Akidah, Mohamed; Mukhwana, Ayub (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 ...

Using Culture to Enhance Ambience: Artistic Inspiration from Leather Crafts

Oguda, Benta G. Adhiambo (Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2019)

The choice of a theme and concept in any design work is fundamental to driving the success of a project. In this paper, the author draws attention to the use of material culture of the Maasai, Swahili and the Luo of Kenya ...

Influence of Selected Socio-cultural Practices on Internal Efficiency in Selected Public Technical Training Institutes in Baringo County, Kenya

Wambu, Charles (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 ...

Gender Disparities in Water Resource Management Projects in Njoro Sub-County, Kenya

Wambu, Charles; Kindiki, Moses (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

Kindiki, Moses Mpuria; Wambu, Charles (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. ...