Browsing Inaugural Lectures by Issue Date
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Kenya’s Cancers
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Prevention of Fainting and Oedema in the Giraffe
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Towards the end of the beginning: development, implications and prospects of Kenya's medical school
(02-12-71)In this lecture, the author looks back since the Faculty of Medicine was established in the University of Nairobi. In reviewing historical events he draws some lessons for the present and the future. He attempts to review ... -
Insect production and reproduction
(02-12-75)This lecture examines the important role the rich insect fauna of tropical Africa has played in its history, health and economic life. He illustrates his theme by recent studies in the reproductive and population biology ... -
Formal monogamy and informal polygyny in parallel
(04-10-07)The task of this inaugural lecture is to identify some of the defining features of the traditional African family system, speak to their continuing transition, examine the factors contributing to these trends and highlight ... -
Laying a Basis for Rights: towards a jurisprudence of development.
([s.n.], 09-07-92)The lecture attempts to paint a plausible picture of the rights-creative process; considers the African experience in rights-creation; and proposes an approach to a jurisprudence of development which views the formation ... -
Environmental degradation and pollution: let us reverse the trends
(09-09-04)Degradation of land and ecosystem results in loss of productivity. The paper reviews impacts and possible trends of degradation and pollution with regard to land and ecosystems, water and sanitaion, soil waste, chemicals, ... -
Urological footprints in Kenya 'that water may flow' : a story about male genital cancer and dysfuntion
(University of Nairobi, 09-10-03)The research focuses on genetal cancer, the most common cancer for men in Africa -
Geophysics in tropical Africa
(11-05-78)The author examines the scope of geophysics and covers the study of the physical properties of the earth, including its interior and its atmosphere. He also explain why geophysics is a very relevant and practically useful ... -
The Anthropological basis of Medicine in East Africa
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Achieving oral health for all in kenya; a reality or a myth
(University of Nairobi, 18-05-06) -
Achieving oral health for all in Kenya: a reality or a myth?
(Department of periodontology, 18-05-06) -
The growth of a literary tradition in East Africa
(University of Nairobi,Department of Linguistics and Literature, 19-05-03) -
The Art of Rain Makers
([s.n.], 19-05-76)In this lecture, the author gives examples of recent occurences of drought and the misery accompanying them in various parts of the world. In particular, he stresses the need for the perfection in the art of rainmakers to ... -
The growth of a literary tradition in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 19-06-03)The concern for a literary tradition in East Africa is an old one. It is tied to the attempts by East African Men of Letters to liberate the African aesthetic. For a long time what held sway here was the Great Tradition. The ... -
The Relevance of Animal physiology to Animal Production in Kenya
([s.n.], 22-10-71)David Robertshaw was appointed as the first professor of the department of veterinary physilogy in 1969. The lecture discusses the physiology of animals and justifies the existence of a department of animal physiology in ... -
Surveying in developing Kenya: the role of the prospects
(23-01-86)The lecture examines survey, the oldest profession known in history. It examines its developments that include computer and the utilization of space technologies that has evolved surveying to provide for new needs. The ...
