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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) ...
Teaching conflict management skills in schools: Prerequisite for peace and achievement of millennium development goals in Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2011)
The Kenyan society is experiencing a lot of conflicts, some with devastating effects such as deaths,
starvation, disease and destruction. These normally arise out of difference between people. Secondary
schools being ...
Attributions and attitudes of mothers and fathers in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011-04-01)
The present study examined differences and similarities between Kenyan mothers and fathers in attributions regarding successes and failures in caregiving situations and progressive versus authoritarian attitudes.
Engendering development: Demystifying patriarchy and its effects on women in rural Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2011-02-28)
The paper examines the effects of the culture of patriarchy on the development process, and particularly its effects on women. This is borne out of the perceived concerns and challenges of the third millennium development ...
Syntactic Aspects in Text Messaging
(Sciedu Press, 2011)
Online interactive media such as text messaging has influenced syntactic aspects of language. In order to determine how
text messaging has resulted in paradigm shift in the traditional uses of language, this paper explores ...
The trajectories of culture, Christianity and socio-economic development in Vihiga District, Western Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2011-02-28)
Culture is part and parcel of a community’s life irrespective of the repelling forces or demands from other social institutions, including the Church. However, some scholars have argued that the Church is a culture in ...
Interpersonal influences in the scale-up of male circumcision services in a traditionally non-circumcising community in rural western Kenya
(2011-01)
Promoting male circumcision (MC) is now recognized as an additional, important strategy for the
prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men, and plans are underway to scale-up this
intervention especially ...
The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups.
(American Psychological Association, 2011-10)
The goal of the current study was to investigate potential cross-cultural differences in the covariation between two of the major dimensions of parenting behavior: control and warmth. Participants included 1421 (51% female) ...
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 ...
THE POTENTIAL OF THE CHURCH AS A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION IN PEACEBUILDING IN AFRICA. LESSONS FROM KENYA’S ETHNIC CONFLICTS
(NEW EUROPE COLLEGE-Institute for Advanced Studies, 2011)
The 2007 general election in Kenya is reminisced as an event that exemplified destruction that ethnic politics can have on a country. It was clear that most Kenyan politicians are ethnically aligned and divided in political ...