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Prayer for rain: a pentecostal perspective from Kenya
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017-10)
Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, has a population of 3.5 million people. The concentration
of Pentecostal and charismatic churches in Nairobi, as in other African cities, has more than
doubled since the 1970s. The ...
New Europe College Yearbook 2010-2011
(2010)
Between 1920 and 1940 the relationship between culture and ethnicity constituted one of the most dominant political themes in Eastern Europe. The cultural, historical, anthropological debates shaped national identity in ...
Indiana University Press
(Indiana University Press., 2018-10-18)
This article examines the role and future of indigenous theatrical performances (ITPs) in peacebuilding in Kenya. It focuses on the Kikuyu, Luhya, and Luo communities’ traditions of ritual, storytelling, proverb, and song ...
Fallacious Sexuality Knowledge and its Implications Among the Akamba Adolescents in Machakos County, Kenya
(2015)
Current statistics show that urban growth rates are relatively higher in the Small and Intermediate urban centres in Kenya. This study sought to analyze the impacts of urbanization driven land use changes within the Mara ...
Historical Manifestation of Ethnocentrism and its challenges Today
(International Journal of Applied Sociology, 2011)
In this article we have begun by defining ethnocentrism. According to anthropologists, the concept combines
the belief that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures, with the practice of judging other cultures by ...
The contribution of the Church of God-Kenya teachings to people’s participation in poverty alleviation in Emuhaya district, western Kenya
(European Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 2017)
The purpose of the study was to determine the contribution of the CoG-K teachings to people’s participation in poverty alleviation in Emuhaya District, Western Kenya
The belief and practice of divination among the Swahili Muslims in Mombasa district, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2010)
This article gives a critical analysis of divination as practiced among the Swahili of Kenya coast. Radical
changes in lifestyles were not associated with initial Islamization, but in latter days, Swahili contextualized
Islam ...
Improving Access to Maternal Health Care through Devolution in Western Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017)
The major threat facing conservation of wildlife within and outside protected areas presently is the continuous loss of wildlife corridors and dispersal areas. This is as a result of increase in human settlements and the ...
RNA interference: a pathway to drug target identification and validation in trypanosome
(Academic Journals, 2008-03-31)
RNA interference (RNAi) is a phenomenon through which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) induces potent sequence-specific degradation of homologous transcripts. Besides its function in cellular defense and developmental regulation, ...
The influence of information technology on the socio-political song in Kenya
(Routledge, 2015-07-04)
This article examines how the growth of socio-political songs in Kenya reflects the effect of the evolution of information technology (IT). The unprecedented proliferation of IT – especially mobile telephony, the Internet ...