Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Folklore and Socio-Political Identity in Joe Khamisi’s The Politics of Betrayal: Diary of a Kenyan Legislator and Dash Before Dusk: A Slave Descendant’s Journey in Freedom
(KOLA, 2023-09)Joe Khamisi’s first publication The Politics of Betrayal is a memoir and the second Dash Before Dusk is an autobiography. They both contain a personal and a group identity narration capturing a period in the Kenyan ... -
The De-Tribalized Generation: The East Africa Hip-Hop Artist.
(KOLA, 2023-09)The East African urban setting has produced a generation that lives within cultural grey areas that have no clear ethnic leanings. The youth who inhabit these urban spaces are caught in a world with forces that pull ... -
Analysis of contraceptive use among homeless women in Kenya – a case of Nairobi county
(Informa UK, 2023-07)Many factors influence the utilization of reproductive healthcare services in Kenya. Despite the effort by the government and other stakeholders to improve access and utilization of these services, there remains a major ... -
Determinants for Adoption of Quality Management System in Project Implementation: a Case of Nyandarua County Government Construction Projects, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)The purpose of this study was to establish determinants for adoption of Quality Management System, by assessing the extent to which the system can resolve Projects Implementation challenges in the construction of County ... -
(E) Merging of the Old with (in) the New: Continuity of Children’s Play Songs and Rhymes in East African Hip Hop Culture.
(KOLA, 2023-09)Recording music and disco is not very old in Africa. However, this does not mean that there was an absence of musical performances for public consumption. Hip Hop music, coming from the disco background where the Disc ... -
A Socio-Cultural Discourse Representation of Women in Bukusu and Gusii Proverbs
(KOLA, 2023-09-08)This paper examines the main attributions attached to women in Bukusu and Gusii proverbs. Specifically, the paper reports on how women are represented in proverbs in these cultures; which aspects of their lives are highlighted ... -
Social dialogue for the social sector
(UoN Law Journal, 2023-07-10)Labour disputes in Kenya frequently have more casualties beyond the parties concerned. There is an especially high frequency of labour disputes in the social sectors in Kenya, with a significant portion originating from ... -
The WHO's 75th anniversary: WHO at a pivotal moment in history
(University of Nairobi, 2023)The World Health Organisation (WHO) was inaugurated in 1948 to bring the world together to ensure the highest attainable standard of health for all. Establishing health governance under the United Nations (UN), WHO was ... -
Customer characteristics and over-indebtedness in Kenya
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)The influence of an individual’s characteristics on their financial decisions has always been an area of great interest to researchers. The use of customer characteristics to predict the decisions that a customer will make ... -
Influence of farmer capacity building in financial mobilisation on performance of smallholder irrigation projects in Migori County, Kenya.
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)Irrigation is increasingly being accepted as a precursor to food security, employment creation and economic development. Irrigation accounts for up to 40% of world food production (Asian Development Bank [ADB], 2015). ... -
Strategic leadership and strategy implementation in Commercial Banks in South Sudan: the role of organizational structure
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)The main objective of the study was to establish the role of organizational structure on the relationship between strategic leadership and strategy implementation in commercial banks in South Sudan. The subsequent hypothesis ... -
Government ownership and financial performance of state enterprises: Kenyan perspective
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between government ownership and the financial performance of state enterprises in Kenya. To achieve this objective, a positivist philosophy was adopted, ... -
A New Historicism Approach to Paradox in Religious Faith in Selected Kiswahili Novels
(University of Nairobi, 2017)This paper aims at analyzing specific Kiswahili novels using a New Historicism Approach in the quest to show that witchcraft, adultery, lies, power struggle and other vices characterize the daily activities of worshippers ... -
The Impact of the Depiction of Children in Selected Swahili Children Stories
(University of Nairobi, 2017)This research paper interrogates the portrayal of the boy child and the girl child in selected Kiswahili Children‟s Stories with a view of investigating the likely impact of the manner in which this has been done. Children‟s ... -
The Role of Kiswahili Children’s Literature in formulating their Worldview
(University of Nairobi, 2018)This Paper will examine how characters in Children’s Literature are portrayed by different authors with the probable ramifications.Children’s literature in Kiswahili Language has grown tremendously in the recent past.For ... -
The Lingering Question of Neocolonialism in Selected Swahili Plays
(University of Nairobi, 2018)This paper examines how the question of neocolonialism has been addressed by Kiswahili writers by focusing on some selected plays by Timothy Arege and K.W. Wamitila. The paper’s main objective is to identify how the theme ... -
Interlanguage Variability in the Use of French Auxiliary Verbs by Low-proficiency Learners of French in Kenya
(university of Nairobi, 2018)This paper set out to identify the variants of the rules governing the choice of the auxiliary (whether avoir, ‘to have’ or être, ‘to be’) in the passé composé tense in the French of low-proficiency learners in Kenya. Data ... -
The Relevance of Ethnobotanical Studies to Linguistic Vitality: The Case of Plant Use and Classification Among the Digo of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2004)This article summarises the findings of ethnobotanical research conducted among the Digo people of Kwale District, Kenya, together with applications of this research for the benefit of the local community and implications ... -
Kenya’s CBC crisis as a call to the boardroom not courtroom: why dialogue will best remedy the uncertainties towards Kenyan children receiving the desirable quality education in the new education system
(University of Nairobi Law Journal, 2023-07-10)The Kenyan 8-4-4 education system is in transition to the new Competence Based Curriculum (CBC). The latter aims at not only having the students grasp what they learn but also specialize at an early age in what they can ... -
Utilization of data management and performance of microfinance institutions funding entrepreneurial projects Kisumu County, Kenya
(AJBUMA, 2023-02-20)Data management is the development and execution of architecture, policies, practices and procedures in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of microfinance institutions funding entrepreneurial projects ...
