Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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The Pronominal System of Okiek
(Department of Linguistics and Languages, UoN, 2023-12)This paper describes the morphological, morphophonological, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of the pronominal system of the Nessuit variety of Okiek – a branch in the Kalenjin language family in the Southern Nilotic ... -
Conditional Sentences in Gĩkũyũ (Kikuyu, E51)
(University of Nairobi, Department of Linguistics and Languages, 2023-12)This paper presents a morphosyntactic characterisation and a semantic classification of Gĩkũyũ conditional sentences. A morphosyntactic characterisation of Gĩkũyũ conditional constructions shows the following types of ... -
Group Work and Learner Achievement in Reading Comprehension in Public Primary Schools in Nairobi.
(JPAHAP, 2023-12-06)Group work supports employment of instructional competencies by refining understanding through discussing themes, questioning reading, and brainstorming themes for accelerated learning. However, where teaching abilities ... -
A Review of Citizen Librarianship in Academic Libraries in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Citizen librarianship is the involvement of ordinary library users to create, review and share library services and content. Citizen librarianship emerged from the concept of citizen science in which non-experts are ... -
Status of Library Spaces and Facilities in University Libraries in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023-06-23)In the global sphere, university library users’ needs continue to change thus university libraries are repositioning themselves to address the changing users’ needs. An important aspect of the change revolves around the ... -
Case Study: Kenyan University Libraries Status of Access to Library Spaces and Facilities for Persons With Disabilities
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The purpose of this paper was to find out the position of library spaces and facilities at the university libraries in Kenya particularly in serving users with disabilities. The study was conducted using a pragmatic research ... -
Quasi-experimental evaluation of Kenya's pictorial health warnings versus Zambia's single text-only warning: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Population studies in mostly high-income countries have shown that pictorial health warnings (PHWs) are much more effective than text-only warnings. This is the first quasi-experimental evaluation of the ... -
Investment case for primary health care in low- and middle-income countries: A case study of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Background: Primary healthcare (PHC) systems attain improved health outcomes and fairness and are affordable. However, the proportion of PHC spending to Total Current Health Expenditure in Kenya reduced from 63.4% in 2016/17 ... -
Basic human values drive food choice decision-making in different food environments of Kenya and Tanzania
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Increased access to a variety of foods in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to greater autonomy in food choice decision-making. Autonomy allows individuals to make decisions through negotiation of considerations ... -
Explanatory models, illness, and treatment experiences of patients with psychosis using the services of traditional and faith healers in three African countries: Similarities and discontinuities
(University of Nairobi, 2023)As part of formative studies to design a program of collaborative care for persons with psychosis, we explored personal experience and lay attributions of illness as well as treatment among persons who had recently received ... -
Our hands are bound': Pathways to community health labour in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively ... -
Learning orientation and competitive advantage: the case of insurance firms in Kenya
(DBA, 2023-09-04)Explaining how firms operating within an industry can vary in their performance outcomes continue to generate debate among strategic management scholars. The objective of this study was to examine whether learning orientation ... -
Chinese Credit Lines in Kenya: Linked to Natural Resources?
(University of Nairobi, 2023)This study examines China-Kenya financial engagement in the context of the discovery of natural resources in Kenya. Based on the analysis of the outcomes of financial instruments, we use trade dependence hypotheses to ... -
Shaping the Future of Africa-china Engagement
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Chinese information communication technology (ICT) multinational corporations (MNCs) have built the backbone infrastructure used by millions of internet users across Africa and the world (Cisse, 2012; Oreglia, 2012; ... -
Increasing compliance with international pandemic law: international relations and new global health agreements
(University of Nairobi, 2023)Across multiple pandemics, global health governance institutions have struggled to secure the compliance of states with international legal and political commitments, ranging from data sharing to observing WHO guidance to ... -
Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)An understanding of the types of shocks that disrupt and negatively impact urban household food security is of critical importance to develop relevant and targeted food security emergency preparedness policies and responses, ... -
Food Insecurity and Dietary Deprivation: Migrant Households in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The current study focuses on food consumption and dietary diversity among internal migrant households in Kenya using data from a city-wide household survey of Nairobi conducted in 2018. The paper examined whether migrant ... -
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)This paper highlights the challenges faced by female sex workers living and working in the urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Covid-19 outbreak and the aftermath of the pandemic. Using data collected ... -
Women’s Perspectives on The Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC):A Case Of Kenyan Mothers Of Children With Dyslexia.
(JPAHAP, 2023-08-31)Dyslexia is a reading disability that affects 1 in every 5 children globally, yet in Africa, it remains largely unidentified and undiagnosed. Although mothers of children with dyslexia are key stakeholders and play a ... -
Decentralization of Teachers’ Recruitment and Promotion of Teachers: Predictor of Service Delivery among Public Secondary School Teachers in Westlands Sub County, Kenya.
(JPAHAP, 2023-08-31)The purpose of the study was to investigate influence of decentralization of Teachers Service Commission functions on service delivery among public secondary school teachers in Westlands Sub-County, Kenya. The study was ...
