Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Evaluation capacity development in Kenya
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Psychology, 2000)In recent years, Kenya, along with other developing countries, has experienced a decline in economic growth that has adversely affected the quality of life of the population. The government has put in place measures to ... -
Kenya’s new water law: an analysis of the implications for the rural poor
(Department of Business Administration, 2005-01)This paper analyses the implications of Kenya’s Water Act 2002 for the rural poor in the management of water resources and delivery of water services. The paper is premised on the belief that pluralistic legal frameworks ... -
Development of Stock Markets in LDCs – The Case of Kenya – Seminar paper presented at Glasgow University -1989
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Mobility and in Economic Informality by Gender in Nairobi
(2013)Mobility in Economic Informality by Gender in Nairobi/Mobility including the movement of persons and goods is major constraint in a large majority of African cities. Mobility is even more constrained for people who are ... -
Inequality and Child Survival in Kenya: A Probit Model Approach
(School of Economics, 2010)In view of the low child survival rates in Kenya, conventional intervention has tended to focus more on the delivery of various clinical and public health technologies to the neglect of economic and psycho-social constraints ... -
Assessment of the capacity of business schools and other institutions to support the development of entrepreneurship in Eastern Africa, DFID
(EFMD Conference. , NairobiSchool of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2012) -
"Our Physical and Oral Heritage: A Link."In Our Landscapes, Our Narratives
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2006) -
Media score Card Report: The Coverage of the Referendum Campaigns 2005
(School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2005)The study systematically quantified media content on indicators such as independence, accuracy, fairness, diversity of opinion and open access to media institutions. The study gave the media a clean bill of health on ... -
Boda-bodas Rule: the Poverty and Inequality Implications of Non-farm Activities in Western Kenya
(University of NairobiInstitute of Development Studies, 2006-10)Several reasons have been advanced for income diversification into non-farm activities among rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Broadly, one may classify diversification behavior as ‘survival-led' or ‘opportunity-led'. ... -
Pragmatic strategies in the use of Kiswahili demonstratives
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The Role of Mass Media During the 2007 Post-Election Violence in Kenya
(School of Journalism, 2008)The paper discuss the role of mass media during the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya. The paper argues that while few media houses were responsible, the majority were irresponsible. However, it is not what they did ... -
Law Regulation and Politics in Kenya since 2002
(School of Journalism, 2008)The paper discusses the impact of legal and regulation framework on mass media in Kenya. It argues that weak, irresolute and inadequate legal, regulatory and policy framework inherited from the colonial administration and ... -
KENYA MEDIA SECTOR ANALYSIS REPORT NOVEMBER 2008
(School of Journalism, 2008) -
Media and the sustenance of collective identifications in Africa
(School of Journalism, 2005)The initial, post-independence attempt to unite the three East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania floundered in the wake of ideological differences by the political leadership in the three countries. Before ... -
Narrative Structure and Metaphor: Towards a new aesthetics of the Kiswahili novel
(Univesity of NairobiDepartment of Kiswahili, 2011)For a long time the Kiswahili novel has been firmly rooted in the classical realism associated with 19th Century European novel. There are a number of features that are associated with that mode of representing reality. ... -
Battered Women: A Socio-legal Perspective of Their Experiences in Nairobi
(University of NairobiInstitute of Anthropology ,Gender & African Studies, 2000-01)The literature and research on domestic violence against women have received increased attention in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but research on wife beating/battering is still sparse. This paper reports from a research project ... -
Imaginative Writing Since Independence
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1980)