Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Determinants of financial inclusion of Working Women in Uganda
(AJBUMA, 2023-12-08)This study sought illuminate the determinants of financial inclusion among working women. The two objectives of this investigation were to establish the effect of financial literacy on financial inclusion and ... -
Stakeholder Involvement and, Monitoring and Evaluation: Determinants of Schools’ Compliance with Safety Standards.
(JPAHAP, 2023-12-06)The safety of school children at all times, and everywhere cannot be over-emphasized. Learner safety is central to the provision of quality education and globally, governments are committed to ensure safety and overall ... -
Inquiry-Based Learning and Mathematics Achievement: Does Learner’s Individual Prior-Knowledge Count?
(JPAHAP, 2023-12-06)Performance in mathematics as a foundational subject to majority of scientific disciplines continues to remain below expectation especially ability to solve real life problems. This study investigated the effect of learner’s ... -
An Analysis of Substitution Errors Made in Reading Standard Chinese Characters by Students of the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi
(Department of Linguistics and Languages, UoN, 2023-12)The present study investigated the errors made in reading standard Chinese characters by students of the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi. Each participant was given a passage to read aloud in isolation ... -
Translating from English into Ekegusii in Radio Broadcasts: Presenters’ “Mistranslations” vs. Native Speakers’ Acceptability of Them
(Department of Linguistics and Languages, UoN, 2023-12)This paper investigates the procedures which presenters on Egesa FM (a radio station broadcasting in Ekegusii) use to translate segments of news and advertisements from English into Ekegusii, a Bantu language of Kenya. One ... -
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 ...
