Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Law, Business Mgt (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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The political economy of educational inequality: A study of the roots of educational inequality in colonial and post-colonial Kenya
(University of NairobiSchool of Education, 1979)This is a study of the origin of the origin and the reproduction of educational inequality at the primary school level in colonial and post-colonial Kenya. Regional and class inequalities are the two aspects of education ... -
Credit and investments by micro and small scale enterprises: a study of women traders in Busia town.
(Arts-Development studies, 2010)Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) are a critical sector of Kenya's trade activities both in the urban and rural areas. Available evidence on MSEs in Kenya demonstrates that women traders' activities such as clothing, ... -
From household to region: the marketing/production interface
(Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, 1983)Academic interest in African pastoralism increased considerably in the 1970s and early 1980s. Studies in this time period emphasized, inter alia, ecology and subsistence production, political economy, farmer/pastoralists ... -
A Literary artist's understanding of ''freedom'': A study of existentialist influences in tile short stories and poems of Taban Lo Liyong
(University of Nairobi.Department of Literature, 1989-09)Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's most prolific literary writers and arguably, the most controversial. He is one writer whose works have baffled most literary critics specifically because of his iconoclastic ideas as ... -
Natural resource based conflicts and pastoral livelihoods:a focus on the impact of water resource based conflicts on pastoralism in Dadajabulla Location of Wajir District, Kenya
(Arts-Development studies, 2003)The study describes and analyzes relationships between natural resource based conflicts and pastoral livelihoods. The study is based on the obvious assumption that water is an important natural resource in the maintenance ... -
Demographic, socio-economic and environmental factors influencing maternal morbidity and mortality in Nairobi: 1977 - 1986
(University of Nairobi.Department of Arts, 1988-05)In Kenya, women aged 15-49 years make up almost one-quarter of the total population. This is a significant figure and calls for serious consideration of the women's reproductive health problems as it is now recognized ... -
Wole Soyinka's satire in the interpreters
(University of Nairobi.Department of Arts, 1989-02)This thesis intends to examine Wole Soyinka's satire in his novel The Interpreters. The study seeks to highlight the fact that Soyinka attempts to ridicule and condemn different kinds of human follies in the novel by ... -
The impact of age at first birth and age at first birth and age at first marriage on fertility in Kenya
(Department of Population Studies & Research Institute, University of Nairobi, 1990-06)This study examines the impact of age at first birth and age at first marriage on fertility in Kenya, using the data drawn from Kenya Fertility Survey file. The mean ages at first birth and first marriage, total fertility ... -
A Study of Secondary school teachers' attitudes towards teaching and their job satisfaction in Kenya
(University of Nairobi.Faculty of Education, 1983)The major purposes of this study were to investigate the attitudes towards teaching and job satisfaction (Presnt pay; Promotional opportunities; SupervIsion of teachers by the heads of schools; nature of work and ... -
Capital Accumulation and 'schooling in the Modern World Economy the Political Economy of Education and Inequality in Jamaica
(University of NairobiSchool Of Education, 1984)The main concern of the dissertation is to study the relation ship between education and mental/manualdivision of l~bor in .Jamaf.ca within the ModernWorld-Economy.Whogoes where at what level in schooling? ... -
A literary analysis of Lifela Tsa Litsamaea-naha
(University of NairobiDepartment of Arts, 1982)The title of this thesis is A Literary Analysis of Lifela tsa Litsarnaea-naha poetry. This poetry is an oral literary genre composed by the Basotho migrant, mine workers. The analysis given is on the collected and ... -
Household dynamics and rural political economy among Embu farmers in the Kenya Highlands
(University of NairobiField of Anthropology, 1984)While Embu's land is fertile and rainfall high, the principal "avenues to wealth accumulation lie outside of farming. Education, salaries, and businesses are the means of accumulating wealth in land, cash, and ... -
Micro finance institutions: an analysis of the socio-cultural factors in loan repayment in mathira division, nyeri district, kenya.
(University of Nairobi,Master of Arts Degree in Development Studies., 2004)This study investigates the role of socio-cultural factors in loan repayment among the Kikuyu of Nyeri district in Kenya. This is based on the premise that loan groups, being embedded ... -
Income Elasticity Of Tax Structure In Kenya 1962/63 - 1972/73
(University of NairobiDepartment of Economics, 1975)The purpose of this study is to estimate income elasticity of tax structure in Kenya during the 1962/63 to 1972/73. Income elasticity of tax structure is defined as the responsiveness of tax revenue to changes in national ... -
Political activities among the Mijikenda of Kilifi and Mombasa districts: 1920 - 1963
(University of NairobiDepartment of Arts, 1984-07)This is a study of Mijikenda political activities in Colonial Kenya in the Mombasa and Kilifi Districts of the Coast Province. The study is limited to the period 1920 - 1963. It aims at portraying the colonial conditions ... -
The availability, dissemination and utilization of information of population in Kenya with special response to the period 1946-1977
(Arts, 1978)The aim objective of this study is to examine and to analyse the sources of population information in Kenya and to rationalise, assist and make or the state of t s information. The research activity therefore revolved ... -
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o:A study of his artistic vision and craftsmanship
(Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, 1988)Ngugi's fiction confronts us openly with the issue of the meaning and value of our modern historical and socio-political experience. Like Soyinka, he is preoccupied with the question of "self apprehension." To carry ... -
Omosa_The fuelwood crisis in rural Kenya: a socio-economic analysis of the causes and effects of the fuelwood scarcity in Bura irrigation settlement scheme Tana River District
(Arts-Sociology, 1987)This study is a socio-economic analysis of the causes and effects of the fuelwood scarcity in Bura Irrigation Settlement Scheme - Tana River District. The main object ives were to exp lain: factors that influence fuelwood ... -
Road traffic accidents and conflicts on some T-junctions in Nairobi
(Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1989)The study was based on accidents and conflicts on some selected T-junctions in Nairobi. The objectives of the study were: to study accidents and conflicts on selected T-junctions with a view to understanding the problems ... -
Differences in usage between some registers of written Swahili
(Arts, 1980)This thesis seeks to show that over the last fifty years or so, several varieties of written Swahili have emerged and that these varieties have, with time, developed features which characterise them, and by which they ...
