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Archives / Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010) / Articles Using Language Rights Concepts to Evaluate the Knowledge of Court Interpreters in Kenya
(AJOL, 2011)
Our objective was to assess the knowledge of the court interpreter on issues surrounding language rights, based on data collected from 10 practicing court interpreters in subordinate courts in Nyanza Province of Kenya. The ...
Implications of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the Stability of the Luo Cultural Funeral Ceremonies in Kenya
(Masaimara university resipototry, 2020)
Abstract: The paper reveals the circumstances that may cause change in the Luo cultural funeral practices. One such circumstance is the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 is a global issue however it has a great ...
Influence of background knowledge on reading comprehension ability in Kenyan secondary schools
(Scholarlink Research Institute, 2014)
Reading is a basic skill in the education system and the society because it is a precision to most subjects offered in the school curriculum. If students do not understand what they read, they will struggle to cope with ...
AIDS is caused by invisible insects sent by sorcerers: A cognitive perspective to the AIDS-witchcraft question in sub-Saharan Africa
(David Press, 2010)
In most anthropological literature premised on witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa cases in point being the Azande speakers of Sudan (Pritchard, 1937), beliefs in witchcraft among the ”Fang of Cameroon” (Boyer, 2001) and even ...
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya! The Quagmire of Sexually Explicit and Scary Pictorial Metaphors in AIDS Posters
(2013)
AIDS as an incurable ailment is no stranger to humankind. Most healthconscious watchdogs, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, have lobbied for aggressive AIDS campaigns to sensitize populations within ...
Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya!
(Semantic Scholar, 2013)
AIDS prevention interventions (Doka 1997; Sontag 1988).This paper examines the cognitive effects of metaphors and metonymies emerging from sexually explicit images and scary pictorial representations in AIDS posters among ...
Implications of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the Stability of the Luo Cultural Funeral Ceremonies in Kenya
(Masaimara university, 2020)
Abstract: The paper reveals the circumstances that may cause change in the Luo cultural funeral practices. One such circumstance is the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 is a global issue however it has a great ...
Aspects of Dholuo Coronal Harmony
(Jaramogi oginga odinga resipotory, 2016)
Coronal harmony in Dholuo refers to the co- occurrence restriction on dental and alveolar obstruents and nasals. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain coronal harmony as it manifests in Dholuo. This involves ...
Linguistic Conceptualizations of Disease Among the Luo of Kenya
(Sage Publications, 2018)
The region inhabited by the Luo ethnic group in Kenya is disease endemic. However, disease awareness initiatives register low acceptance due to the sociocultural images of disease and illness conceptualized in the local ...
What Gets Mapped onto What in the SEX IS A FOOTBALL GAME Metaphor in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters?
(The Stockholm 2014 Metaphor Festival, 2015)
Susan Sontag, the prolific author of AIDS and its Metaphors, subscribes to the school of thought
that life-threatening ailments such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis are rich in
conceptual metaphors by which ...