Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Transcending racial/cultural spaces: the power of the woman in Yusuf Dawood's The Price of Living and Water Under the Bridge
(2004)This paper interrogates Yusuf Dawood's portrayal of women characters in two of his novels – The Price of Living (1983) and Water Under the Bridge (1991) against the background of the post‐independence multiracial Kenya. ... -
Stigmatization in the Context of HIV/AIDS. Kelin Newslatter
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The Challenges of Communicating with Female Adolescents: A Case Study of Kenya
(University of Nairobi.School of Journalism, 2003)The HIV and AIDS pandemic has torn the continent of Africa apart, in the context of a consistently deterriorating situation occasioned by conflict, poverty, bad governance and negatIve economic growth. In Kenya, the ... -
Factors Influencing Education and Age at First Marriage in an Arid Region: The Case of the Borana of Marsabit district, Kenya
(Institute of African Studies, 2000-04)The role of education in development is widely recognized in many countries. However, the value placed on formal education differs from one community to the next. In this paper I argue that among the Borana pastoralists ... -
Some Aspects of the Urban Microclimate of Nairobi City
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1998) -
Engaging Strategic Constructive Communication to enhance tractability of Inter-ethnic conflict
(Department of Communication Skills, 2007) -
Wanted: A Suave, Articulate, Highly-Educated President
(University of Nairobi,School Of Journalism,, 2011) -
Towards a strategy for changing Attitudes to indigenous African Languages."
(University of NairobiDepartment of Linguistics and Languages, 1998) -
A Review of Sriram C. L. & Nielsen Z. ed. Exploring Sub-Regional Conflict; Opportunities for Conflict prevention
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Assessing Intracultural Variability Statistically Using Data on Malaria Perceptions in Gusii, Kenya
(Department of African Studies, 2002-05)The author illustrates how qualitative data from open-ended interviews, pile sorts, and triad sorts can be used to test quantitatively for intracultural variation in norms. Specifically, the author tests whether Gusii men ... -
A Journalism Trainer Recalls First Encounter that Never Was with the Genius of Kenya's Literary Journalism and Punditry
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A Qualitative Study of Condom Use among Married Couples in Kampala, Uganda
(Department of African Studies, 2006-11)Twenty-five years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, condom use among married/stable couples remains low and under-researched in developing countries, even countries with high HIV prevalence. Introducing condoms into a long-standing ... -
Financing Medical Care through Insurance: Policy Lessons from Household- and Community-Level Analysis in Kenya
(2002)Medical insurance is an important feature of a health care system in which patients pay user charges to get medical treatment. Without insurance, many people would not afford acceptable care in a fee-for-service system. ... -
The demand for medical care in Kenya
(2003)We use a quantile regression method to analyse the demand effects of user fees over the entire distribution of visits in a sample of rural and urban populations controlling for other covariates of interest, notably income ... -
From Fetters to Freedom" in The Long Walk to Media Freedom
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Impacts of women in political leadership in Kenya: struggles for participation in governance through affirmative action
(University of NairobiInstitute For Diplomacy and International Studies, 2011)Since Kenya attained formal independence in 1963, women have been seeking to effectively participate alongside men, in governance and decision-making in all aspects of public life. But for the first three decades of ... -
The contribution of social science research to malaria prevention and control
(Department of African Studies, 2002-01)In recent years, malaria has received a dramatic increase in attention worldwide, as witnessed by the growing number of articles in scientific journals, the forging of international partnerships such as the Multilateral ... -
Orality, Social Media, and Youth: An Integrative Model for Education and Training
(University of Nairobi,School Of Journalism,, 2013) -
Media Veterans: 70 Years of Journalism in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi,School Of Journalism,, 2013) -
Rethinking Global Peace and Security: Women
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012)Abstract Not Available
