Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Reflections on Orality and Cultural Expression: Orality as a Peace Culture
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2010)Cet article présente une étude approfondie de la littérature orale comme une expression artistique des craintes et aspirations d'un people: c'est à dire la sagesse d'un people. L'exposé souligne la volonté du peuple Luhya ... -
Contributor in the environmental group in the report and recommendations fo the National City Convention "The Nairobi we Want" now published as "Actions Towards a Better Nairobi" 27th - 29th July, 1993.
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Climate change adaptation and EIA studies in Kenya
(2009)Purpose – The paper is an excerpt from a bigger study with an overall aim of examining the extent to which climate change adaptation has been integrated in the EIA studies undertaken in Kenya since the process inception ... -
The risks Of Water Pollution from Urban Refuse - A paper presented in the Second National Conference on Rainwater Harvesting systems at UNEP, Nairob
(Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi, 1992) -
Using research findings to formulate extension tools that incorporate stakeholders' aspirations: The case of tea farming in poverty reduction strategies among smallholders in Kenya
(2010)Kenya's tea research advisory committee (RAC) expressed its desire to tackle poverty and minimum landholding issues to improve the economics of tea farming in Kenya. This paper presents the results of a survey undertaken ... -
An investigation into the existence of exchange rate arbitrage in the Mombasa Spot Market
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The Knell of Readership: A Case of Censorship in Children’s Literature
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2007) -
The Paradoxes of Form and Style
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2010) -
Adopting electricity prepayment billing system to reduce non-technical energy losses in Uganda: Lesson from Rwanda
(Elsevier, 2012)Uganda is contemplating adopting an electricity prepayment billing system (EPBS) as an intervention to reduce non-technical energy losses. To provide more insight on EPBS a study was formulated to assess potential benefits ... -
Performance of socially screened portfolio at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2013)Since its introduction in the early 1970s, socially responsible investment (SRI) has gained prominence as both a rival and a complement to conventional investment. SRI is the philosophy and practice of making strategic ... -
The influence of geographic and morphometric factors on the distribution of water bird species in small high altitude tropical man made reservoirs, Central Rift Valley, Kenya
(WileyDepartment of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2009)Variability in waterfowl characteristics among eight high altitude (2040–2640 m) small shallow (0.065–0.249 km2; 0.9–3.1 m) reservoirs in the escarpment zone along the central rift valley in Kenya between Naivasha and ... -
Organic Resource Management in Kenya
(rum for Organic Resource Management and Agricultural Technologies (FORMAT), 2003)The Forum for Organic Resource Manage ment and Agricultural Technologies serves as a platform for promoting innovation among those seeking to make better use of what is too often overlooked. These under-utilized organic ... -
The relationship between corporate social responsibility practices and financial performance of firms in the manufacturing, construction and allied sector of the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(School of Business, University of Nairobi, 2013)Literature provides conflicting results on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice and firm financial performance with some studies showing a positive relationship (Waddock & Graves, 1997; ... -
Acceptability of cereal banks as a marketing intervention among smallholders in western Kenya
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2012-03)A new impetus is emerging with regard to the potential role that agricultural producer associations might play in improving rural economies. For this study, the use of cereal banking to improve accessibility to premium ... -
The jurisdictional challenges to the prosecution of piracy cases in Kenya: mixed fortunes for a perfect model in the global war against piracy
(Springer-VerlagCommercial Law Department, University of Nairobi School of Law, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)Since 2008 Kenya has distinguished itself in the global war against piracy by undertaking prosecutions in the national courts of suspected pirates arrested in the high seas and handed over by navies of leading maritime ... -
Viral Metagenomics Demonstrates That Domestic Pigs Are A Potential Reservoir For Ndumu Virus
(University of NairobiCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012)Background The rising demand for pork has resulted in a massive expansion of pig production in Uganda. This has resulted in increased contact between humans and pigs. Pigs can act as reservoirs for emerging infectious ... -
Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa, Luise White : book review
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2001)Extracted from text ... 241 BOOK REVIEWS Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. By Luise White. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000. 352 pp. ISBN 05 20217 047. 'I call this transnational ... -
Tea Farming Enterprise Contribution to Smallholders’ Well Being In Kenya
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2007)Po verty reduction among smallholders has remained a major priority for the Kenyan government. Efforts have been geared to have a streamlined agri -business system like emulated by the tea sub-sector. In the smallholder ... -
Enhancing regional maritime cooperation in Africa: the planned end state
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Lysistrata in Nairobi: performing the power of womanhood in the post‐colony
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1999)This paper is based on my personal experience of adapting and producing the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata1 in Nairobi, Kenya. Originally written by Aristophanes in the fifth century BC, the play gives voice to the ...
