Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Facing Mount Kenya or Facing Mecca? The Mungiki, ethnic violence and the politics of the Moi succession in Kenya, 1987–2002
(2003)Kenya's return to pluralist politics in the early 1990s saw the eruption of political violence that has since laid siege to human rights and democracy. This article discusses the Mungiki movement which, like the Mau Mau ... -
Introduction: Kenya–A democracy in retreat?
(2008)The post-election crisis of January 2008 brought Kenya close to collapse and the status of a failed state. Following the abrupt proclamation of Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent president, as victor in a highly contentious ... -
Contextual variability in the acceptability of Kenyan English grammatical features
(2013)The present study set out to find out whether a number of grammatical features assumed to be characteristic of Kenyan English would be accepted at different levels depending on three parameters of linguistic context: ... -
The Mediating Effect of Housing Search on the relationship between Demographics and Residential Housing Decisions amongst Apartment Households
(2015)The study sought to investigate the mediating effect of housing search on the relationship between apartment household demographics and four residential owner-occupied housing decisions. Using two-stage cluster sampling, ... -
The Influence of Demographics on Owner-Occupied Housing Decisions: A Case of Apartment Households in Nairobi County, Kenya
(2015)The study sought to determine if demographics overall have a statistically significant influence on housing decision choices and to ascertain which particular demographics have a statistically significant influence on ... -
Ethnicity, gender and violence in Kenya
(2000)This article examines the ethnicallydiscriminatory nature of Kenya’s refugee policy, its influence on the administration and practice of refugee affairs, especially by relief agencies, and its role in encouraging ... -
The Meaning and Implications of Life and Death in Africa: A Psycho-Philosophical Reflection
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Legal Philosophy: Jurisprudence
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Key Issues for Information Officers in South Africa
(2006)Business strategy, operations, communication and technology have converged and resulted in increased demand for business flexibility. Chief information officers (CIO) are particularly challenged because they operate at ... -
Leadership for the electronic age: towards a development-oriented, socio-technical ontology of leadership: scene setting
(2013)The idea of an ontology of leadership for the electronic age raises "big questions" from the perspective of leadership as a broad interdisciplinary practice. This article aims to capture the current dilemma in leadership ... -
Linking Reasoning to Theoretical Argument in Information Systems Research
(2013)This paper looks at the application of theory in research by linking theory use to reasoning and the influence of paradigms. The paper relies on how theory is conceptualized in the philosophy of science and an argument is ... -
Linking the Role of Government to Internet Diffusion in Nigeria: Is the 'Giant'of Africa Awakening?
(2012)This paper focuses on the role of government in the development of the Internet, as a representative artifact of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) of a country. We consider Nigeria, a developing country that has ... -
Forms of power, politics and leadership in asynchronous virtual project environment: An exploratory analysis in South Africa
(2013)Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the forms of power, politics and leadership exercised by project leaders within asynchronous virtual project environments (VPEs). The purpose of this paper is to link effective ... -
Enabling Social Sustainability of E-Participation through Mobile Technology
(2015)The social sustainability of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) projects such as e-government in developing nations remains a vexing issue. Particularly pertinent to the concept of e-government ...
