Recent Submissions

  • Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili 

    Awino, Ebbie; Wanzare, Lilian; Muchemi, Lawrence; Wanjawa, Barack; Ombui, Edward; Indede, Florence; McOnyango, Owen; Okal, Benard (Cornell University, 2022-10-29)
    Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ...
  • Trauma Informed Interventions and Academic Adjustment among Adolescent Students in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya 

    Omare, Justine Momanyi; Onderi, Peter Omae; Bashaija, Athanansio (Nusantara Journal of Behavioral and Social Science, 2023-11-13)
    Globally, the problem of escalating incidences of trauma among adolescents has adversely affected their physical, behavioral, emotional and psychological functioning hence impairing their quality and ability to adjust in ...
  • Ubuntu, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa: Reflections on the Promises and Challenges of a Popular Concept 

    Chitando, Ezra; Kilonzo, M.Susan (Springer International Publishing, 2023-10-18)
    Faced with the constant criticism that “nothing good can come out of Africa,” many African scholars and peace activists, as well those from other parts of the world, have identified Ubuntu and presented it as one of Africa’s ...
  • Non-adherence to antiretroviral treatment among migrating fishermen in western Kenya’s islands: a rapid qualitative study 

    Ombere, Stephen Okumu; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno (Taylor & Francis, 2023-11-28)
    Fishing communities in many Sub-Saharan African countries are a high-risk population group disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. The association of migration with HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well ...
  • Cultural values, parenting and child adjustment in Kenya 

    OBURU, Paul (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2024-01-03)
    Children's, mothers' and fathers' reports were used to assess whether mothers' and fathers' individualism, collectivism and conformity values are significantly related to parenting behaviours and child adjustment during ...
  • How adolescents’ lives were disrupted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal investigation in 12 cultural groups in 9 nations from March 2020 to July 2022 

    W Andrew Rothenberg, Ann T Skinner, Jennifer E Lansford, Dario Bacchini, Marc H Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Daranee Junla, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M Al-Hassan (Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-26)
    It is unclear how much adolescents’ lives were disrupted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic or what risk factors predicted such disruption. To answer these questions, 1,080 adolescents in 9 nations were surveyed 5 times from ...
  • Adolescents' relationships with parents and romantic partners in eight countries 

    Laura Gorla, W Andrew Rothenberg, Jennifer E Lansford, Dario Bacchini, Marc H Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater‐Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Daranee Junla, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane P Alampay, Suha M Al‐Hassan (Wiley, 2024-02-13)
    Creating romantic relationships characterized by high-quality, satisfaction, few conflicts, and reasoning strategies to handle conflicts is an important developmental task for adolescents connected to the relational models ...
  • Relationships in Childhood 

    Howard Steele, Marinus H van IJzendoorn, Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg, W Thomas Boyce, Mary Dozier, Nathan A Fox, Heidi Keller, Dario Maestripieri, Paul Odhiambo Oburu, Hiltrud Otto (MIT Press, 2023-09-19)
    This chapter focuses on early childhood experiences and how they may contribute to cooperative and peaceful behaviors and outcomes in the later childhood years and into adulthood. Five interrelated topics are explored:(a) ...
  • Intraindividual variability in parental acceptance-rejection predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms across childhood/adolescence in nine countries. 

    Ann E Folker, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jennifer E Lansford, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, W Andrew Rothenberg, Ann T Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H Bornstein, Lei Chang (American Psychological Association, 2023-09-21)
    Parenting that is high in rejection and low in acceptance is associated with higher levels of internalizing (INT) and externalizing (EXT) problems in children and adolescents. These symptoms develop and can increase in ...
  • Developmental Trajectories of Parental Self-Efficacy as Children Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries: Latent Growth Curve Analyses 

    Christy M Buchanan, Terese Glatz, Şule Selçuk, Ann T Skinner, Jennifer E Lansford, Suha M Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Qin Liu, Qian Long, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane Peña Alampay (Springer US, 2023-11-13)
    Little is known about the developmental trajectories of parental self-efficacy as children transition into adolescence. This study examined parental self-efficacy among mothers and fathers over 3 1/2 years representing ...
  • Mitindo ya Lugha Inayowabainisha Wahusika Wazimu katika Riwaya za Habwe 

    Odhong’, Joseph Ondiek; Amukowa, Debora Nanyama; Asiko, Beverlyne Ambuyo (EASTAFRICAN NATURE& SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 2023-07-31)
    Takwimu za Shirika la Afya Ulimwenguni zinaonyesha ongezeko la idadi ya wazimu katika jamii duniani kote (Kovacevic, 2021). Waandishi wa fasihi wamewaumba wahusika wazimu wakiakisi mazingira wanamoishi. Tangu jadi wahakiki ...
  • Politeness in nonverbal communication: a commentary on non-verbal communication in a linguistics classroom context in a selected Kenyan university 

    ABAYA, Ruth; ONGARORA, David; MAGONYA, Lilian (European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies, 2023-07-05)
    The aim of this article was to explain the effects of politeness as entailed in nonverbal language use in the instructional process. Non-verbal communication skills also known as silent language, include all behaviours ...
  • Politeness Strategies in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC): 

    ABAYA, Ruth; MAGONYA, Lilian; ONGARORA, David (Al-Kindupublishers, 2023-08-13)
    This paper examines the politeness theory in the light of Austin & Searle’s speech act theory as reflected in CMC between students and their lecturers or supervisors. Thus politeness aspects were analyzed as enacted in ...
  • Alternative Media and Ethnic Politics in Kenya 

    Kilonzo, Susan M; Muhoma, Catherine (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2023-08-23)
    The history of the use of alternative media in Kenya’s politics shows evidence that it was in use in 2007, when the country came into the brink of a genocide; and, prominently in use, in the recent 2022 general elections. ...
  • Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya 

    Ombere, Stephen Okumu; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (Routledge, 2023-01-02)
    Maternal healthcare is a global agenda. Kenya introduced free maternity services (FMS) in 2013 to allow women to give birth for free in all government public health facilities. The introduction of FMS was timely due to the ...
  • Introduction: Religion and Inequality in Africa 

    Chitando, Ezra; Maseno, Loreen; Tarusarira, Joram (Bloomsbury, 2023-01-12)
  • 10 Securitization of COVID-19 and the Imagination of Post-COVID-19 Burial Ceremonies in Kenya and Zimbabwe 

    Maseno, Loreen; Sibanda, Fortune (Taylor & Francis, 2023)
    The years 2020 and 2021 will go down in history as the most tragic period in the second decade of the new millennium as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in death and untold suffering the world over (Sibanda ...
  • 3 Sitting on a Grave 

    Maseno, Loreen (Taylor & Francis, 2023)
    COVID-19 in Kenya necessitated an enforcement of Ministry of Health (MOH) burial guidelines. These were met with resistance at various levels, even as the State demanded that these guidelines be unilaterally enforced. After ...
  • Local perspectives on policy implementation of free maternity health services in Kenya: Implications for universal health coverage. 

    Ombere, O. Stephen; Nyambedha, O. Erick; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2023-05-02)
    Kenya introduced free maternity services (FMS) in 2013 to enable all pregnant women to give birth for free in all government public health facilities. Currently, Kenya is rolling out universal health coverage (UHC), which ...
  • Olikoye Ransome-Kuti: a treasured advocate for primary health care and a pioneer of good health governance 

    Friday Okonofua, Natalia Kanem, Eyitayo Lambo, Isaac F Adewole, Nimi D Briggs, Elizabeth Millar, Fikadu Mitiku, Honelgn N Hiruy, Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Subeen Lim, Hocheol Lee, Jongin Lee, Nigatu R Geda, Eunwoo Nam, Victoria K Uka, Esienumoh E Ekpoanwan, Alberta D Nsemo, Josephine B Etowa, Stephen O Ombere, Erick O Nyambedha, Tobias Haller, Sonja Merten, Tolulope F Olufunlayo, Olayinka A Abosede, Adebayo T Onajole, Olumuyiwa O Odusanya, Nnabuike C Ngene, Olive P Khaliq, Jagidesa Moodley, Sanae Elomrani, Bouchra Assarag, Vincent De Brouwere, Soufiane Aithammou, Rachid Bezad, Bouchra Benazzouz (African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2023-05-31)
    Given the phenomenal contributions he made to primary health care worldwide, and to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health care in the African region, the African Journal of Reproductive Health (AJRH) has ...

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