Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Juvenile delinquency and violence in the fiction of three Kenyan writers
(Faculty of Arts, 2007)This essay is a preliminary examination of crime and violence in postcolonial Kenyan fiction. It examines how three Kenyan writers have dealt with the themes of crime and violence in their fiction. Through examination of ... -
The Kenya Patent Law: Promoting Local Inventiveness or Protecting Foreign Patentees?
(Cambridge University PressDepartment of law, 1994)African countries, in particular Kenya, have recognized the role of science and technology in long-term economic adaptation and development. Consequently, they have turned to national planning with emphasis on science and ... -
Kenyan Popular Fiction in English and the Melodramas of the Underdogs
(Faculty of Arts, 2008)The postcolonial urban landscape, especially in Africa, remains a place defined by an inchoate relationship between the different social classes occupying it. This essay is a brief analysis of the relationship between the ... -
Contra Free Movement: South Africa and the SADC Migration Protocols
(University of NairobiDepartment of Population Studies and Research Institute, 2001)This paper examines the formidable obstacles to the development of a regionally harmonized approach to migration management in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Tracing the origins and development ... -
Biography of a Trade Unionist and the Resurrection of the ‘Indian Question’ in Twenty-First Century Kenya
(2007)The place of Indians/Asians in Kenya's national history remains on the margins. The postcolonial Kenyan nation-state has been reluctant to acknowledge the role that Kenyans of Indian/Asian origin played and continue to ... -
Holding the Traveller's Gaze Accountable in Shiva Naipaul's North of South: An African Journey
(Faculty of Arts, 2004)Travelogues are partly based on what is witnessed, observed and noted about the places and people visited and what is already known in advance, mainly from an existing archive. The archive, therefore, is an important element ... -
The Romantic Detective in Two Kenyan Popular Novels
(Faculty of Arts, 2004)Fiction meant for light reading or writing that is ostensibly intended for entertainment can also be a vehicle for critical political, cultural and social commentary. Popular genres such as the thriller or romance indeed ... -
Writing alternative womanhood in Kenya in Margaret Ogola's The River and the Source
(Faculty of Arts, 2006)Postcolonial Kenya continues to grapple with the problem of gender inequality. Whether through acts of omission or commission and despite notable and significant achievements such as Wangari Maathai winning the 2004 Nobel ... -
Community Perceptions and Treatment of Malaria in Baringo District:Implications for Disease Control
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International migration: trends and institutional frameworks from the African perspective
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011-12)The study sheds light on African international migration trends and institutional frameworks intended to manage migration for the benefit of the countries of both origin and destination. The first section introduces the ... -
Their Own Words: Women Coping with Lymphatic Filariasis in Kwale District, Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, 1999) -
The Constitution and Citizenship
(Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Nairobi, 2002) -
K. Household management of Visceral Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in Baringo District
(Institute for Development Studies, 1999) -
Understanding Female Circumcision from the Circumcisers' Perspective
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006)The resistance of circumcisers can be a substantial obstacle to the eradication of female genital mutilation (FGM). As part of a broader study on FGM conducted in Kenya's Machakos, Nyeri, and Embu districts, in-depth ... -
Sexual Anxieties and Rampant Masculinities in Postcolonial Kenyan Literature
(Faculty of Arts, 2007)Postcolonial African society has been characterised as one in transition. Institutions, communities and individuals experienced (and some continue to experience) rapid political, social, economic and cultural changes with ... -
Specificities: Troubled Love and Marriage as Work in Kenyan Popular Fiction
(Faculty of Arts, 2003)
