Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Evaluating Public Policies for Poverty Reduction: Tools, Techniques and Process
(College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005) -
Gender Inequality, Poverty and Human D evelopment in Kenya
(College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005) -
Colonial Policy and Urban Health in Nairobi
(Department of History, 2002) -
Nationalism and the Struggle for Independence in Kenya
(Department of History, 2006) -
IFC Gender - Entrepreneurship - Markets and Foreign Investment Advisory Service
(College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006) -
Youth, Poverty and Destitution in Nairobi: 1945-60
(Department of History, 2006) -
Public Health Policy in an Urban Setting:
(Department of History, 2005)Colonial Health Policies were characterized by strict racial segregation . This described residence, services and consequently the levels of health and the causes of death among the different races. On the eve of ... -
Maternal and Child Welfare in Nairobi to 1960
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Procedures for decentralized programming, budgeting and work planning: Lessons from Kenyan mistakes
(Department of Government, University of NairobiDepartment of Political Science, University of California, 1985)In 1980 Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture instituted a new Management Manual, designed to improve the quality of district participation in programme identification, budgeting and implementation. Despite the fact that the ... -
Adaptation to Climate Change for Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of German Studies, 2010)This study is part of a project on ―Adaptation to Climate Change of Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya‖ was launched by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute ... -
Afrobarometer 3: The quality of democracy and governance in Kenya, 2005
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Virtual globes: Serving science and society
(2012)Virtual Globes reached the mass market in 2005. They created multi-million dollar businesses in a very short time by providing novel ways to explore data geographically. We use the term “Virtual Globes” as the common ... -
New Tendencies in the Development of Anglophone Novel in East Africa
(Department of Literature, 1997)According to the statements made by a number of scholars, in the 80's East African Anglophone novel, which once received a nickname of "social documentary", began to lose gradually its social commitment. Many of the writers ... -
The Kenyan Novel in the End of the Century: New Outfits or Unveiled Masks - in: Africa at the Threshold of the New Millenium
(Department of Literature, 1999)There appears a peculiar turn in the Kenyan novel writing at the end of the 80s - beginning of the 90s: the authors who previously acquired their fame in developing a particular form of novel writing (social novel, popular ... -
Civil Society And The Politics Of Constitutional Reforms In Kenya: A Case Study Of The National Convention Executive Council (NCEC)
(Department of Political Science, University of Nairobi, 2004)This paper examines and analyses the role of the National Convention Executive Council (NCEC) in engaging the Kenyan state for constitutional reforms. It argues that although NCEC (through mass action) was able to force ... -
Political Novel in Kenyan Prose of 1980-1990s - in: Africa in the Context of North-South Relations
(Department of Literature, 2002)At the end of the 80’s – beginning of the 90’s of the 20th century one of the main trends in Kenyan novel is the concern of the writers to assess the development that has taken place on East African scene over extended ... -
The effect of economic crisis on youth precariousness in Nairobi. An analysis of itinerary to adulthood of three generations of men and women
(Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2004)Since the pioneer analysis of the labour market by the ILO team in the early 1970s, the NUrIP, which collected about 1,600 biographies among a sample of the Nairobi adult population, is the first to provide for a ... -
Holistic Healing: An Analytical Review of Medicine-men in African Societies
(Department of Philosophy and Religious studies, University of Nairobi, 2012-06)Since the advent of modernity and Christianity in Africa, indigenous African holistic healing, and especially its psychological aspect, has been given negative publicity. This article examines ways in which African traditional ...
