School of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Access to Maternal Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Indigent Mothers and Health Care Providers in Kilifi County, Kenya
(Frontiers, 2021)COVID-19 has spread rapidly in Kenya and has not spared pregnant women. Evidence from Kenya shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems have been either stressed to their maximum capacity or are becoming ... -
Female Characters Contesting Maasai Traditional Cultural Practices And Materialism In H.R. Ole Kulet’s Blossoms Of The Savannah And Daughter Of Maa
(European Centre for Research Training and Development UK, 2018): This paper examines how the Kenyan writer H.R. Ole Kulet portrays female characters vis-à-vis Maasai traditional practices in Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa. It proceeds from the premise that characterization ... -
POTRAITURE OF FEMININITY IN GUSII ORAL POETRY
(2019)– Human communities are largely socialized through art to operate within the limits of ideologies. The form of art Abagusii have for eons used to socialize their populace into subjects of different ideologies is oral poetry ... -
Construction of Feminine Ideology in Gusii Oral Poetry
(2019)Abagusii females of the Kisii community of Western Kenya are largely socialized through the community’s oral poetry to operate within the limits of a feminine ideology. The choice of Gusii oral poetry as a vehicle for ... -
A study of terrorism discourse in taifaleo newspaper of Kenya
(MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome, 2021)Terrorism is a global concern and usually elicits a lot of sensationalism every time it occurs. The media often finds itself in the middle of debates over this issue. Apart from the role of informing the public, the media ... -
The big five personality as a predictor of involvement in violence among students in secondary schools in Nyando Sub-County, Kenya
(Healthcare Review, 2021)Involvement in violence among students is a common menace not only in Nyando Sub-county, Kenya but also in the whole world. Predicting involvement in violence based on the big five personalities could be useful in ... -
Academic Dishonesty Among Undergraduate Students At One University In Kenya. Causes And Mitigations
(GRIN Verlag, 2021)Recent empirical studies indicate that cheating by college students is prevalent in many countries. More is known about the pervasiveness of college cheating than reasons why students cheat and how the vice can be mitigated. ... -
The Politics of Pulpit Religiosity in the Era of Covid-19 in Kenya
(Frontiers in Communication, 2021)This essay centres on the role of religion in the era of Covid-19. We juxtapose social media and religious practices in a way that challenges the conventional religion of the pulpit to deconstruct the myths and misconceptions ... -
Forging Associations Across Multiple Spaces: How Somali Kinship Practices Sustain the Existence of the Dadaab Camps in Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2019)Scholars increasingly have challenged the idea that camps as social worlds can only be visualized in terms of helplessness, immobility, and isolation. Similarly, this contribution demonstrates that Somali kinship practices ... -
An Introduction to Communication, Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Communication, 2017)because it comes at a time when communication scholars from the global South are increasingly challenging the dominance of Western modernity in communication and media studies. Many scholars have decried the U.S.–UK ... -
Evaluation Of Internal Communication Channels Used To Communicate To Employees During Unrest In Public Universities In Western Kenya
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 2018)Communication experts have echoed the need for effective communication as a major factor leading to organizational success. Despite vast research on organizational internal communication, literature on how public universities ... -
Role Of Dholuo FM Radio Programmes In Flood Warning In West Nyakach Division, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 2017)Flooding is an uncertain phenomenon thus advance warning, evacuation and flood control are effective and sustainable methods of reducing the devastation caused by floods. Raising awareness and preparing the population ... -
Nexus between women voters’ radio exposure and grassroots electoral participation under the new devolved political dispensation in Kenya
(Некоммерческое партнерство Национальная ассоциация масс-медиа исследователей, 2020)This article examines the nexus between women voters’ radio exposure and participation in the 2013 Kenyan general election in Kakamega County located in the western part of the country. This research grounded in political ... -
International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management
(International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management, 2020)This paper explores how PWD's well-being is realized in disaster situations in Kisumu County of Kenya. There is a significant population of 15,760 persons with disability across Kisumu County. Their well-being is protected ... -
African women's theology and the re-imagining of community in Africa
(AOSIS Publishing, 2021)African women’s theology has a commitment to the emancipation of women covering the several themes such as ecclesiology, hospitality, community, spirituality, sacrifice, ecology and missiology. African women’s theology ... -
Eschatological Prophecies before and during Covid-19: Female Pentecostal-Charismatic Preachers Self-Legitimation through Prophecy in Kenya
(Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021)The paradoxical liberating but limiting impact of Pentecostal Christianity on women is wellknown (Attanasi, 2013; Brusco, 2010). Female Pentecostal-Charismatic (PC) preachers are asserting themselves in Africa. However, ... -
Diaconia
(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2021)Christian social practice (diaconia) is contextual; it is not uniform to people of all contexts. The contextual and neutral nature of Christian social practice means the question of methodology is important when considering ... -
Grounded Theology and Disability in Western Kenya
(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, 2021)Kenya still faces challenges in protecting the rights of persons living with disabilities. Although the government has come up with policies to protect the rights of persons living with disabilities, sociocultural beliefs ... -
Environmental consciousness amongst indigenous youth in Kenya: The role of the Sengwer religious tradition
(AOSIS, 2021)Environmental destruction has contributed to climate change, a contemporary threat to the survival of the human race. Currently, many young people across the world are increasingly and actively involved in climate action, ... -
An appraisal of the Pentecostal eco-theology and environmental consciousness among youths in Parklands Baptist Church, Kenya
(AOSIS, 2021)The younger generation in different countries have been said to be growing into environmental consciousness. Are youths in the Kenyan religious landscape aware of the environmental issues? Is environmental consciousness ...