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Le Kenya National Drama Festival: identité culturelle dans un corpus dramatique anglophone et francophone
(2016-02-10)
This study analyszes the representation of cultural identity in sixteen drama texts written by Kenyans in English and in French for the Kenya National Drama Festival (KNDF). Considering the colonial history and the ...
Is Democrasy Possible? A Theoritical Perspective
(Research on humanities and Social Sciences, 2017)
Democracy can be defined as a government in which sovereignty lies with the people either directly or via representatives. The transition from monarchy to representative democracy was long, gradual process. Nevertheless, ...
A Linguistic Overview of the Patronymic and Gender Names amongst the Selected African Communities
(American Journal of Linguistics, 2018)
Most family systems world over are basically patriarchal in that children are given names bearing those of their
fathers. The tendency cuts across almost all cultures in the world. This trend has continued to exist from ...
Cross-cultural Variations of the HIV/AIDS IS DEATH Pictorial Metaphor
(Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd., 2017-09-01)
or three decades now, HIV/AIDS undeniably remains one of the leading killer diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. The same narrative is advanced in the literature by sociologists and epidemiologists where mental images that ...
A pragmatic analysis of figurative language used in HIV/AIDS discourse in Kenia: a case study of english and Kiswahili messages
(University of Geneva, 2012)
This research investigates whether Kenyans from 42 mutually intelligible communities homogeneously comprehend AIDS posters. In this regard, the five research objectives are: (1) to investigate whether Kenyan AIDS posters ...
UCHANGANUZI WA HIPONIMIA ZA VITENZI VYA KISWAHILI
(Academia.edu, 2016)
Hiponimia ni uhusiano wa kifahiwa unaodhihirika baina ya leksimu ya jumla (hipanimu) na mahususi
(hiponimu). Kama vile hipanimu mzazi hujumuisha hiponimu baba na mama. Uhusiano huu wa kihiponimia ulidhukuriwa na wanaisimu ...
The use of Extensive Reading in the Teaching and Learning of English in Primary Schools in Nyakach District
(Kennedy Indembukhani, 2013)
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the use of extensive reading in the
teaching and learning of English in primary schools in Nyakach district. The study aimed
to achieve the following objectives: to ...
Valence Decreasing Processess in Lutsotso
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2015)
This paper analyzes valence decreasing process in the sentence of Lutsotso. Lutsotso is a dialect of the larger Luluhyia, an agglutinative Bantu language of Kenya with very rich morphology. The paper shows how verbal ...
Genre Analysis of Move Structures in Job Interviews by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya in 2011
(Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2017)
Many scholars have carried out research on genre analysis (Swales, 1990, Bhatia,1993, Bruce, 1993),
Flowerdew, 2002, Fairclough,, 2006, and others) and their findings have opened many avenues for research
and analysis ...
Aspects of Dholuo coronal harmony
(International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, 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 ...