Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Effects of terrorism news on readers of newspapers
(Academic Research International, 2013)The media plays an important role in giving the masses information about terrorism. Many developing countries have not in the past had many acts of terrorism that originated directly from those countries and for a long ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Mabadiliko katika Umbo la Ushairi na Athari zake katika Ushairi wa Kiswahili
(Academic Journals, 2008)Mwanadamu amejaribu kwa vyovyote vile kuvumbua na kunyumbua mambo mapya ambayo yataleta mvuto na kupimia akili yake kiubunifu katika hali ya kutaka kutangamana zaidi na binadamu mwenzake au kutaka kuelewa zaidi ulimwengu ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Face threatening acts and standing Orders:‘politeness’ or ‘politics’ in the question time discussions of the Kenyan Parliament
(Journal of Pan African Studies, 2011)This discussion attempts a pragmatics analysis of Kiswahili literary political discourse. Specific examples will be drawn from poetic texts; Chembe cha Moyo by Alamin Mazrui (1988), Sauti ya Dhiki by Abdilatif Abdala (1973) ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Prevalence of food insecurity in patients with diabetes in western Kenya.
(Wiley, 2013)Aims To determine the characteristics of patients with diabetes who reported food insecurity at three diabetes clinics in western Kenya. Methods This study includes routinely collected demographic data at the first ... -
Assessment of palliative care services in western Kenya
(AME, 2017)Background: The need for palliative care services is rapidly increasing due to the rising number of patients with non-communicable diseases. The objective of this study was to assess the current availability and barriers ... -
Developing and implementing a pediatric emergency care curriculum for providers at district level hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study in Kenya
(Frontiers, 2017)Introduction: Emergency medicine is a relatively new field in sub-Saharan Africa and dedicated training in pediatric emergency care is limited. While guidelines from the African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM) ... -
An assessment of facility-based care of diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure across western Kenya
(Kenya Medical Association, 2018)Background: Low- and middle- income countries account for three-fourths of the global non- communicable disease related mortality. In response to the increasing number of non- communicable disease diagnoses in Kenya, the ... -
Wound dressing techniques and costs at a county hospital
(The Surgical Society of Kenya, 2019)Background: Wound management is one of the commonest procedures conducted in surgical departments across health facilities in Kenya. Objective: This study aimed at exploring wound dressing techniques used at Migori ... -
The Media, Ethnicity and Regional Development in the Lake Victoria Basin
(J Mass Commun Journalism, 2012)This article discusses how the mass media has been able to assist national and regional development. The concepts of media, ethnicity, and regional development are discussed as critical elements that influence regional ... -
Spatial variations in nutrients and other physicochemical variables in the topographically closed Lake Baringo freshwater basin (Kenya)
(Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management, 2014)Spatial physicochemical parameters were determined from 39 sampling sites distributed throughout Lake Baringo during December 2010. Mean values of temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration and electrical conductivity ... -
Prospects and Challenges of Teaching and Learning Musics of the World's Cultures: An African Perspective
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Recent limnological changes and their implication on fisheries in Lake Baringo, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2014)Water samples for physico-chemical analysis for this study were collected monthly for five years between April 2008 and March 2013. Conductivity, temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH was measured in situ using a Surveyor ... -
DYNAMICS IN CANDIDATES’PREFERENCE CHOICES AT THE KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE) MUSIC PRACTICAL EXAMINATION
(PROBLEMS IN MUSIC PEDAGOGY, 2010)Most studies have used the element of listening response to musical stimuli to determine music preferences of the various groups studied. In this study however, the term preference is used to mean the art of choosing one ...
