Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Acceptability of cereal banks as a marketing intervention among smallholders in western Kenya
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2012-03)A new impetus is emerging with regard to the potential role that agricultural producer associations might play in improving rural economies. For this study, the use of cereal banking to improve accessibility to premium ... -
Molecular epidemiology of measles virus in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics, 2003-12)Measles causes significant morbidity and mortality globally. Many countries have embarked on immunization programs to control and prevent measles outbreaks and eventually to eliminate endemic measles. Kenya is currently ... -
The jurisdictional challenges to the prosecution of piracy cases in Kenya: mixed fortunes for a perfect model in the global war against piracy
(Springer-VerlagCommercial Law Department, University of Nairobi School of Law, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)Since 2008 Kenya has distinguished itself in the global war against piracy by undertaking prosecutions in the national courts of suspected pirates arrested in the high seas and handed over by navies of leading maritime ... -
Viral Metagenomics Demonstrates That Domestic Pigs Are A Potential Reservoir For Ndumu Virus
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012)Background The rising demand for pork has resulted in a massive expansion of pig production in Uganda. This has resulted in increased contact between humans and pigs. Pigs can act as reservoirs for emerging infectious ... -
Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa, Luise White : book review
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2001)Extracted from text ... 241 BOOK REVIEWS Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. By Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000. 352 pp. ISBN 05 20217 047. 'I call this transnational ... -
Tea Farming Enterprise Contribution to Smallholders’ Well Being In Kenya
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2007)Po verty reduction among smallholders has remained a major priority for the Kenyan government. Efforts have been geared to have a streamlined agri -business system like emulated by the tea sub-sector. In the smallholder ... -
Latent tuberculosis detection by interferon γ release assay during pregnancy predicts active tuberculosis and mortality in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected women and their children.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics, 2010-12)BACKGROUND: We evaluated the prognostic usefulness of interferon γ release assays (IGRAs) for active tuberculosis and mortality in Kenyan human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected women and their infants. ME ... -
Enhancing regional maritime cooperation in Africa: the planned end state
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Lysistrata in Nairobi: performing the power of womanhood in the post‐colony
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1999)This paper is based on my personal experience of adapting and producing the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata1 in Nairobi, Kenya. Originally written by Aristophanes in the fifth century BC, the play gives voice to the ... -
Spatial variability in woody species richness along altitudinal gradient in a lowland-dryland site, Lokapel Turkana, Kenya
(SpringerDepartment of Geography and Environmental Studies,, 2009)The woody species richness patterns in three 2–4 km long transects, approximately 1–3 km apart in a lowland (600–700 m) dryland around Lokapel in Turkana northern Kenya was analyzed in 2003 at 200–500 m intervals using the ... -
The Media We Want: The Kenya Media Vulnerabilities Study
(School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2010)The Kenyan Media have operating in an predictable and swiftly changing political, social, cultural, economic and technological environment that have heavily influenced its development -
African Politics and the Struggle for the Artist's Freedom: viewpoints from Kenya
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1997)Kenya is one of the three East African Countries (the others are Uganda and Tanzania). It has a population of over 24 million people and has been independent, at least nominally, from Britain, since 1963. (It is the home ... -
Immune responses to measles and tetanus vaccines among Kenyan human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected children pre- and post-highly active antiretroviral therapy and revaccination.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics, 2009-04)BACKGROUND: : HIV-1-infected children have lower response rates after measles and tetanus immunization than uninfected children. We determined the extent to which highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) augments ... -
Strategies and Tactics of Inauguration of African Underdevelopment: The Case of Christian Missionization Violence in East Africa
(Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1980) -
The effect of women's role on health: The paradox
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Forest and woodland depletion in the Lake Elementeita basin, Kenya
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 1991)Colour infra-red LANDSAT imagery was used to estimate areal changes in forest and woodland vegetation of the Lake Elementeita watershed (335 km2) in Kenya's rift valley. The rate of depletion from 1973 to 1984 was estimated ... -
Population Distribution in Africa: Urbanization Under Weak Economic Conditions , in United Nations (ed) Population and Migration. New York: United Nations, 1998:
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Segmentation of television audience using demographic data - a case study
(University of NairobiFaculty of Commerce, 1992-06)This case study is concerned with segmenting a restricted TV audience in Kenya using demographic characteristics of the audience. The restricted audience chosen was the staff of the University of Nairobi. A sample of ... -
Consistency of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific interferon-gamma responses in HIV-1-infected women during pregnancy and postpartum.
(University of Nairobi.Department of Paediatrics, 2012)Background: We determined the consistency of positive interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) release assays (IGRAs) to detect latent TB infection (LTBI) over one-year postpartum in HIV-1-infected women. Methods: Women with positive IGRAs ... -
Fertilizer retailing in the Kenyan Highlands
(SpringerSchool of Economics, University of Nairobi, 1999)Local retailers of agricultural supplies in developing countries occupy an important link in the dissemination of agricultural technologies but little is documented on their business activities in the Highlands of Kenya. ...
