Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Productivity Growth of Smallholder Sugarcane Farms in Kenya: A DEA Decomposition
(Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Project and Regional Planning, Germany, 2005)A study on Kenyan agriculture by Njue (1993) showed that while production and input use have grown, productivity has stagnated. This includes the sugar sub-sector, which holds a key position in the Kenyan Agricultural ... -
Personalizing Power in Uganda
(National Endowment for Democracy, 2007)A dozen years after the adoption of Uganda's new constitution, the democratization process has been thrown into reverse. Uganda today is sliding backward toward a system of one-man rule engineered by the recently reelected ... -
CRS 560: African Christian Theology
(Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2012)The Unit consists of twelve inter-related Lectures. Each Lecture has some in-text questions as a guide to deeper thinking and a considerable number of activities for your academic attention. You will be expected to ... -
Nadharia ya Eksibaa katika Kiswahili
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Usaliti
(Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Patronage politics, donor reforms, and regime consolidation in Uganda
(Oxford University Press, 2005)Using the state and its resources has constituted a vital form of consolidating power for Africa’s rulers. However, donor-sponsored reforms have threatened to curtail the opportunities of African leaders to maintain their ... -
Kiswahili Timilifu-Kidato cha Kwanza
(Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Microfinance and behaviour change among Nairobi's commercial sex workers
(Practical Action PublishingCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2003-06)The KVOWRC (Kenya Voluntary Women Rehabilitation Centre) is a programme aimed at helping commercial sex workers in Nairobi to find an alternative source of income; it achieves this through counselling, peer support and ... -
Curses And Cursing Among The Agĩkũyũ: Socio-Cultural And Religious Benefits
(Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2012)This article examines the concept “curses” and the practice of “cursing” among the Agĩkũyũ of Kenya and draws out the emerging insights and interpretations indicating their socio-cultural and religious benefits. The ... -
Njia ya Mwongo
(Department of Linguistics, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
Corruption and cronyism in Uganda's privatization in the 1990s
(2001)Uganda's privatization in the 1990s was marred by malpractices and manipulations involving regime politicians and well‐connected individuals. This article is one of the first to document publicly an African case of ... -
The Asian Drivers and Africa: Learning from Case Studies
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009)When the OECD Development Centre launched research in 2005 to document the economic, political and social impacts of China’s and India’s economic growth on sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, the arrival (or resurgence) ... -
Universal health coverage anchored in the right to health
(2013)European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs recently pointed out the need for "updated and modernized [Millennium Development Goals], providing decent living standards for all - a set of minimum floors below which ... -
China and Sub Saharan Africa: impacts and challenges of a growing relationship
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010)The existing literature is clear that China is impacting on Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). What is not clear is the precise nature of that impact. Does it come mainly from trade in cheap manufactured goods? Does it come from ... -
Enterprise clusters in Africa: linkages for growth and development
(Practical Action Publishing in association with GSE ResearchInstitute For Development Studies, 1999-12)Clusters of enterprises are a familiar sight in Africa: informal vegetable markets occupying road reserves; groups of carpenters making furniture at the edge of a housing estate; vehicle repairers and metalworkers in giant ... -
The city as a marker of modernity in postcolonial Kenyan popular fiction
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2005)The city is one of the most enduring symbols of modernity in Africa. Owing to its advanced industrial, economic and infrastructural development in relation to other parts of most postcolonial African countries, the city ... -
The African Union’s diplomacy of the diaspora: Context, challenges and prospects
(University of NairobiInstitute For Diplomacy and International Studies, 2012)This article examines the venture of the African Union (AU) into diasporic diplomacy. It inspects the context in which this was done, and the thrust of its diplomacy in the diaspora. It identifies four crucial diasporic ... -
Oral Narratives
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From Dualism to Monism: The Structure of Revolution in Kenya’s Constitutional Treaty Practice
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011)The constitutional referendum in Kenya on 4 August 2010 in which the citizens overwhelmingly approved the new constitution was a hallmark event in more than one aspect. It paved the way for the promulgation of Kenya’s ...
