Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Persistence, long memory and seasonality in Kenyan tourism series
(2014)This article investigates the statistical properties of the total number of arrivals and departures in Kenya for the time period 1975Q1–2011Q4 by looking at the degree of persistence of the series. We use long range ... -
Virtue Ethics in Marketing FMCGs in East African Common Market
(2014)The existing disparities in ethical standards of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs) in East AfricanCountries (EAC) and the ethical difficulties in distribution, is underpinned by little understanding of our ethical needs ... -
Diaspora Nationals and Their Role in Promoting International Business: A Case of Kenyans in Dispora.
(2014)Nationals in diaspora from any country are a national resource that needs to be harnessed. Tremendous contributions to the national economies have been made by diaspora Nigerians, Tanzanians, Indians, Kenyans, Rwandans, ... -
The development and practice of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)This paper provides an analytical description of the emerging Kenyan Strategic Environmental assessment (SEA) system as an example from Sub - Sahara Africa, focusing on its form, purposes and implementation. Three feature s ... -
Media as the main choice for sex education amongst the youth: the case of radio in Nairobi, Kenya
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The effect of capital structure on the financial performance of small and medium enterprises in Thika sub-county, Kenya
(2015)Whether the capital structure of a firm should have some effect on the financial performance of small and mediumenterprises is a matter for empirical determination. The objective of this study was to determine the effect ... -
Special issue of nomadic peoples on securing the land and resource rights of pastoral peoples in east Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2014)The land question in many African countries has geographical, political, economic, social and demographic nuances. These factors color land and resource rights for pastoral and forest dwelling communities. Land as property ... -
I want it and i want it now: women and land in Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2014)In Africa, as elsewhere, land rights have remained a bastion of male power and privilege. Since land is a fundamental resource for improving living conditions and economic empowerment, the lack of land rights for women ... -
A critical discourse analysis of funeral speeches in Kenya a case of junior Odinga’s speech
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The objective of this paper was to critically analyze the political undertones and the socioeconomic allusions in the funeral speeches in Kenya with a case study of a speech delivered by Junior Odinga during the requiem ... -
The tension between ethics and ethnicity: Examining journalists’ ethical decision-making at the Nation Media Group in Kenya
(2014)This article analyses how ethnicity influences the ethical decisions of journalists at the Nation Media Group (NMG) in Kenya. Ethnic identity is regarded as one of the key factors that shape the political beliefs of Kenyans ... -
A clash between journalistic and capitalist values? How advertisers meddle in journalists' decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya
(2014)This article seeks to examine how advertisers meddle in journalists’ ethical decisions at the Nation Media Group (NMG) in Kenya. Grounded in the critical political economy of the media tradition, it is argued in the article ... -
Mindfulness and Quality of Innovation in Cloud Computing Adoption
(2014)The emergence of cloud computing is quickly redefining the information technology (IT) and business landscape. Cloud computing involves delivery of IT infrastructure, software and platforms as a service to the end users. ... -
Determinants of Commercial Mixed Farming on Small Farms in Kenya
(2013)Agriculture is a topic of concern for rural development programs in Kenya because of the high poverty incidents among farmers. Fundamentally, smallholder agriculture contributes substantially to total agricultural production ... -
Wages in Kenya.
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Local bureaucrats as bricoleurs. The everyday implementation practices of county environment officers in rural Kenya
(2015)Bricolage in natural resource governance takes place through the interplay of a variety of actors. This article explores the practices of a group whose agency as bricoleurs has received little attention, namely the government ... -
Senior Research Fellow & Thematic Head: Language, Culture & Society
(University of Nairobi, 1994)