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The trajectories of survival of the Mungiki Youth in Nairobi
(2012)
The numerous socio-economic challenges facing the youth in developing nations today have meant that youth must find new approaches to address these challenges and utilize what is available in their surroundings to enable ...
Psychological Capital and Career Outcomes among Final Year University Students: the Mediating Role of Career Engagement and Perceived Employability
(Springer, 2020-05)
Increasingly, graduates are taking much more time in the transition from school to
work. Recent research suggests that the ability to adjust quickly plays a key role in the
transition process. This is even more important ...
Factors contributing to antimalarial drug resistance in Rachuonyo district, Kenya.
(2010-03-01)
Drug resistance has been identified as one of the factors that lead to severe malaria and high mortality as observed in malaria endemic
areas. The main objective of this study was to establish the factors that contribute ...
Framing Freedom of Religion or Belief for Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya: The Equivalency Framework of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya
(Routledge, 2018-10-02)
Over the past years, and in the aftermath of terror attacks, religious organizations in Kenya have issued press statements which conflate discourses on war against terror, security, and freedoms of religion. Using the ...
The dilemma in sustainability of community-based projects in Kenya
(Research gate, 2015)
Globally, billions of shillings have been spent in communities to enhance the living situation of the people. However, one
of the most critical obstacles is the extent to which the projects are able to persist despite the ...
Investigation of Optimal Temperature Distribution, Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Friction Stir Welded Copper Alloy Joints
(Research gate, 2018)
In this work to determine the maximum temperature at weld zone by using three dimensional finite element heat
transfer model is developed by ANSYS. Copper specimens were prepared under different FSW condition, by varying ...
Coordinate Ellipsis in EkeGusii: An Overview
(Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2019)
This paper gives the distributional characteristics of coordinate elliptical
constructions in EkeGusii. The syntax of the constructions is given
using a Phase theoretic approach, one of the current theoretical
constructs ...
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) ...
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 ...
Application of Set Theory Formulas in the Presentation of Lexical Meronymy
(Scholars Middle East Publishers, 2016)
Lexemes relate in terms of sense in various ways that are linguistically referred to as homonymy, polysemy,
antonymy, synonymy and even hyponymy among others. Though some of these relations like hyponymy tend to ...