Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Women and the Constitution in Kenya
(1992)Almost in all known and existing societies, women en masse have always constituted a disadvantaged group which is routinely the subject of discrimination. Even in the United States of America, ohe of the world's most ... -
Constitutional Development in Kenya in 1999
(1999)This report traces and evaluates constitutional development in Kenya in 1999. Section One describes the meaning and nature of constitutional development. Section Two presents a historical perspective of constitutional ... -
Kukua na Kuenea kwa Kiswahili
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Sexism in forbidden language: the case of Kiswahili and English
(University of Nairobi, 2014) -
Number symbolism in world religions: the case of number seven
(University of Nairobi, 2014) -
Development of democratic culture and civil society in Africa: an analysis of relevant constitutional initiatives and models
(1990)This study examines how present-day African constitutional and governance models in their own terms provide for democracy and civil society. The aim is to discover if a constitutional minimum can be discerned in Africa's ... -
Attitudes and action: the problem of child abuse in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1983)In recent years, public interest in child abuse has increased dramatically, as well as among academic and field professionals. This surge of interest has produced a great deal of concerned writing which unfortunately has ... -
The impact of development on women in Kenya: a methodological approach.
(University of Nairobi, 1982)This research project constitutes a follow-up of the 1978 Expert Meeting on Research and Data Collection on "Women and Development," held in Nairobi for the East African Region. Among the research priorities and guidelines ... -
State Creation of Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya, 1991-98: The Process and Political Dimensions
(2004)With the reintroduction of multipartyism in 1991, Kenya has witnessed tribal clashes and internal displacement that reoccur with every general election. In 1991-1992 serious clashes occurred in the Rift Valley, Nyanza and ... -
Ethnic clashes, displaced persons and the potential for refugee creation in Kenya: a forbidding forecast
(Oxford Journals, 1997)This article attempts to show that the creation of internally displaced persons is gradually becoming an acceptable political enterprise of the State in Africa. It results from political and negative ethnic exploitation ... -
The Refugee Crisis in Africa as a Crisis of the Institution of the State
(University of Nairobi, 1994)Scarcely any State in Africa is currently spared from the effects of refugee exodus or internal displacement. In the author's view, these problems are largely due to fundamental internal contradictions within the African ... -
Burial disputes in modern Kenya: customary law in a judicial conundrum
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School as a Workplace in Kenya: Evaluation of the Teachers Matter HIV/AIDS Project
(UNESCO, 2007)Countless HIV/AIDS interventions rely on teachers to deliver vital prevention messages to their students but do not target the teachers as direct beneficiaries, even though the teachers themselves are at risk of HIV ... -
Obstacles to utilization of institutionalized delivery care in Kenya: a case study of Teso district
(University of Nairobi, 2007)This paper examines the factors that underlie the choice of place of delivery among expectant mothers in Teso district, Kenya. Data from surveys carried out in Teso district in 2000 and 2002 indicate that seventy-six percent ... -
Convergence of Health Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel
(University of Nairobi, 2015)To address the problem of underfunding of health systems in SSA the Abuja Declaration of 2001 set a target to allocate 15% of a country’s budget to public health expenditure. However there is no empirical evidence on whether ... -
Has quality of governance affected the effectiveness of health expenditure on adult health in SubSaharan Africa?
(University of Nairobi, 2011)Compared to the rest of the world Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still has a challenge in reducing its adult mortality. Investments in adult health is a prerogative of SSA governments as they provide the source of labour ... -
Effect of Health Expenditure on Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Governance Perspective
(2015)Though child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined since 2000, they are still higher than other regions of the world. This has provided impetus for increasing effectiveness of health expenditure through improved ...
