• Verbal-Text as A Process of Compositional and Improvisational Elaboration in Bukusu Litungu Music 

  Abigael Nancy Masasabi (University of south africa, 2011)

  The Bukusu community is predominantly found in Bungoma district of Western Kenya. The Litungu is a word referring to a lyre among the Bukusu community. Music accompanied by this instrument is what is referred to as Litungu ...
• The substance of African Divine Church choral music 

  Abigael Nancy Masasabi (Cape Town: African Minds, 2006)

  Choral music in Africa could be classified asWestern“art”, African“art”or indigenous African choral music, which includes traditional“classical”, ethnic, religious and folk styles. All over Africa, indigenous choral ...
• The Kenya National Drama Festival: Cultural Identity in an Anglophone and Francophone Drama Corpus 

  Caroline kalangi (Archives-ouvetes, 2016)

  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 ...
• Aspects of Dholuo Coronal Harmony 

  Unknown author (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 ...
• Implications of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the Stability of the Luo Cultural Funeral Ceremonies in Kenya 

  Dr. Benard Odoyo Okal, Dr. Benard Otieno Kodak, Dr. Adams Yakub, & Dr. Jackline Okello (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 ...
• Analysis of Themes and Illocutionary Speech Act in Selected Advisory Biblical and Literary Texts 

  Unknown author (Quantum Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020)

  The practice of instilling morals to individuals has existed in both familial and societal upbringing. These morals are always transmitted from the older people to the younger generation with an intention of initiating ...
• Reduplication in Dholuo a Study of Morphological Reduplication 

  Jackline A Okello (Nairobi university, 2007)

  This work is a study of reduplication of Dholuo. Reduplication is a naturally integrated facility in Dholuo grammar and therefore calls for a thorough theoretical and descriptive analysis in order to provide a clear ...
• The Media, Terrorism and Political Mobilization of Muslims in Kenya 

  Esha Faki Mwinyihaj, Fredrick O Wanyama (2011)

  Muslims constitute just about 10% of Kenya’s population and their perceived marginalization in the country’s politics since the colonial period has often led them to retreat from the political scene. However, the ...
• 8 “Necessity Removes Restrictions”: Swahili Muslim Women’s Perspectives on Their Participation in the Public Sphere 

  Esha Faki Mwinyihaji (Brill, 2014)

  “NeCessity removes restriCtioNs”: swahili muslim womeN’s perspeCtives oN their partiCipatioN iN the publiC sphere esha Faki mwinyihaji introduction this chapter examines factors that facilitate the increased participation ...
• The belief and practice of divination among the Swahili Muslims in Mombasa district, Kenya 

  Esha Faki, EM Kasiera (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 ...
• Accessibility of Students with Physical Disability to Washrooms in Bungoma Bus Terminus, Kenya 

  Marilyn Apella Ochieng, George Mark Onyango, George Godwin Wagah (VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM, 2013)

  Purpose: To assess the accessibility of students with physical disability to washrooms in Bungoma main bus terminus. Method: A case study approach was used. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and an ...
• Adult Literacy Programme has been providing knowledge and skills to enhance human capital for the solution of various problems in society. The problem in the area of study has however been environmental degradation occasioned by persistent deforestation. The study set out to establish the impact that the planning and implementation of the programme has on enhancing environment development and management in view of the continued environmental degradation in the County. A conceptual framework based on educational production function theory was used to explain the link between the programme and environmental development and management. Using descriptive survey design, the findings revealed that, learners’ theoretical understanding and practical application of skills learnt were assessed. The study concluded that, as knowledge and skills acquired were applied, more evaluation needs to be done downstream to ascertain the practical returns to education 

  Marilyn Ahonobadha, George Mark Onyango, George Godwin Wagah (Càtedra d'Accessibilitat, 2017)

  Learners with physical disability in the western part of Kenya frequently make use of bus terminals during in the trip to and from school. Special schools attended by learners with a physical disability are few in number ...
• Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya! The Quagmire of Sexually Explicit and Scary Pictorial Metaphors in AIDS Posters 

  Lilian Magonya Achieng, Pamela Oloo Anyango (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 ...
• What Gets Mapped onto What in the SEX IS A FOOTBALL GAME Metaphor in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters? 

  Lilian Magonya, Pamela Oloo (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 ...
• Biting the Conservative Bullet in Kenya! 

  Lilian Magonya Achieng, Pamela Oloo Anyango (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 ...
• AIDS is caused by invisible insects sent by sorcerers: A cognitive perspective to the AIDS-witchcraft question in sub-Saharan Africa 

  Magonya Achieng, Peter Maina Matu (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 ...
• A pragmatic analysis of figurative language used in HIV/AIDS discourse in Kenia: a case study of english and Kiswahili messages 

  Lilian Magonya (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 ...
• What Gets Mapped onto What in the SEX IS A FOOTBALL GAME Metaphor in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters? 

  Lilian Magonya, Pamela Oloo (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 ...
• A Lexico-Pragmatic Interpretation of Peace in the 2013 Kenyan Presidential Campaign Speeches Regarding Conflict Management 

  Norah Mose, Benson Ojwang, Lilian Magonya (ARC Journals, 2017)

  Words have power to control human thoughts and behaviour. In a country like Kenya which has experienced election-related conflict since 1992, with the exception of 2013, various lexical choices, especially by the political ...
• Sexuality and the youth with disabilities in Kenya 

  Felix N Kioli, Rosh A Were, Sussy G Kurgat (2012)

  Sexual expression is a basic human need throughout our lives. Sexual behaviour of young people has been a source of concern to societies worldwide due to the adverse effects on the individual as well as society at large. ...

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