Browsing Department of Literary Studies by Issue Date
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Africa in the Debt Yoke: The Mission of the Church
(University Press of Florida, 1993-10-01)This book, the very first of its kind to be published in Kenya, is the church's response to the debt crisis in Africa. It is partly a result of the inspiration of three conferences organized by the church in Africa. These ... -
A failed romance: reading masculinity and love in David Karanja's The Girl was Mine
(Sabinet, 2005)Popular art is not just about entertainment, and this paper explores some of the pertinent issues that one genre of popular fiction, romance, signals. Using the novel The Girl was Mine as a backdrop, the paper concentrates ... -
Wende Luo (Luo Songs) as an intervention tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS among the Luo of Western Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2011)HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa tend to value literacy or Eurocentric communication approaches such as brochures, posters, radio, newspapers and television more than indigenous modes of communication strategies such as ... -
Inscribing memory, healing a nation: post-election violence and the search for truth and justice in Kenya Burning
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a ... -
Versions of truth and collective memory: The quest for forgiveness and healing in the context of Kenya's postelection violence
(Indiana University Press, 2012)The Truth, Justice and reconciliation Commission (TJrC) in Kenya was set up in the aftermath of the 2007/8 postelection violence with the mandate of providing a platform for those who had experienced political injustices. ... -
Organizational Characteristics that are Antecedents to Organizational Learning: A Case of Maseno University, Kenya
(AFRICAN JOURNALS ONLINE (AJOL), 2014)This paper sought to establish the existing Organizational characteristics that are antecedent to organizational learning in public Universities, a case of Maseno University, Kenya. The study adopted a survey design. The ... -
Sigendni Luo (Luo proverbs) as Communication Intervention Tool in the Fight against HIV/AIDS among the Luo of Western Kenya
(THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH, 2015)In Kenya, HIV/AIDS information and skills dissemination has been mainly through modern communication systems, such as the use of mass media — television, radio, internet, newspapers, and leaflets more than indigenous modes ... -
Socio-cultural Dynamics of Displacement in Adichie’s Novels
(Imperial journal of interdisciplinary research, 2018)Displacement is an all-embracing experience that has attracted global interest. Post-colonial countries in Africa and beyond are grappling with this experience. Literary discourse is alive to the socio-cultural dimensions ... -
Concretizing the Emerging Subverted Normative Portraiture in the Metaphor ‘Unbowed’
(International Journal of Social Science and Technology, 2018)Autobiographical discourses written by women globally in their perceptions indicate that women are struggling to dismantle patriarchal structures, seeking to deter them from mainstreaming gender. The paper looks at a ... -
Female Characters Contesting Maasai Traditional Cultural Practices And Materialism In H.R. Ole Kulet’s Blossoms Of The Savannah And Daughter Of Maa
(European Centre for Research Training and Development UK, 2018): This paper examines how the Kenyan writer H.R. Ole Kulet portrays female characters vis-à-vis Maasai traditional practices in Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa. It proceeds from the premise that characterization ... -
A Portrait Subverting the Normative Gender Identity
(Masaimara university, 2018)Autobiographical discourses written by women globally in their perceptions indicate that women are struggling to be given an equal playing field in academia and politics. The paper looks at a portrait of the Legacy of ... -
A Portrait Subverting the Normative Gender Identity
(International Journal of Scientific Research and Innovative Technology, 2018)Autobiographical discourses written by women globally in their perceptions indicate that women are struggling to be given an equal playing field in academia and politics. The paper looks at a portrait of the Legacy of ... -
Construction of Feminine Ideology in Gusii Oral Poetry
(2019)Abagusii females of the Kisii community of Western Kenya are largely socialized through the community’s oral poetry to operate within the limits of a feminine ideology. The choice of Gusii oral poetry as a vehicle for ... -
Construction of Feminine Ideology in Gusii Oral Poetry
(2019)Abagusii females of the Kisii community of Western Kenya are largely socialized through the community’s oral poetry to operate within the limits of a feminine ideology. The choice of Gusii oral poetry as a vehicle for ... -
POTRAITURE OF FEMININITY IN GUSII ORAL POETRY
(2019)– Human communities are largely socialized through art to operate within the limits of ideologies. The form of art Abagusii have for eons used to socialize their populace into subjects of different ideologies is oral poetry ... -
Relationship Between Personality Types and Career Choice Among Undergraduate Students of Maseno University, Kenya
(Journal of Education and Practice,, 2020)Training institutions in most parts of the world place high premium on those who excel in examinations based on scholastic intelligence. In Kenya, students are admitted into available undergraduate degree programmes in ... -
The Politics of Pulpit Religiosity in the Era of Covid-19 in Kenya
(Frontiers in Communication, 2021)This essay centres on the role of religion in the era of Covid-19. We juxtapose social media and religious practices in a way that challenges the conventional religion of the pulpit to deconstruct the myths and misconceptions ...