School of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions

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    • Syntactic Aspects in Text Messaging 

      Nancy Anashia Ong’onda, Peter Maina Matu, Pamela Anyango Oloo (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 ...

    • An analysis of the food metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse 

      Damaris Nyakoe, David Ongarora, Pamela Oloo (Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014)
      HIV represents one of the greatest public health challenges confronting Kenyans. Whereas Kenya has made significant progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the prevalence rates in Gusii are very high and this calls for ...

    • Mwanamke angali tata katika ushairi wa kisasa? 

      Florence Indede (Academic Journals, 2011)
      Sanaa ya ushairi inajisawiri kama nyenzo muhimu katika maendeleo na ukuaji wa binadamu ulimwenguni. Mtunzi wa ushairi hupata ilhamu na tajriba zake kutokana na mitagusana na mivutano ya mijadala ya kimaendeleo inayotokea ...

    • Conceptualization of the seropositive using the journey metaphor in EkeGusii HIV and AIDS discourse in Kisii County, Kenya 

      Damaris Nyakoe, Pamela Oloo, David Ongarora (Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014)
      Language plays a fundamental role in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Kenya. Moreover, language is important in the dissemination of information that would ensure the success of both prevention and treatment of any disease. ...

    • What Gets Mapped onto What in the Sex is a Football Game Metaphore in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Posters 

      Magonya Lilian, Pamela Oloo (Universidad de Maseno (Kenya), 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 ...

    • What Gets Mapped onto What in the Sex is a Football Game Metaphore in Kenyan HIV/AIDS Campaign Poster 

      Magonya Lilian, Pamela Oloo (Universidad de Maseno (Kenya), 2015)
      Susan Sontag, the prolific author of AIDS and its metaphors subscribes to thesis that ailments such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, syphilis and tuberculosis are rich in conceptual metaphors by which they live by. In fact, conceptual ...

    • Genre Analysis of Move Structures in Job Interviews by the Judicial Service Commission of Kenya in 2011 

      Anne Obinju1 Dr. Pamela Oloo 2 Lydia Akuno3 (Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2017)
      Many scholars have carried out research on genre analysis (Swales, 1990, Bhatia,1993, Bruce, 1993), Flowerdew, 2002, Fairclough,, 2006, and others) and their findings have opened many avenues for research and analysis ...

    • Effects of terrorism news on readers of newspapers 

      Effects of terrorism news on readers of newspapers (Academic Research International, 2013)
      The media plays an important role in giving the masses information about terrorism. Many developing countries have not in the past had many acts of terrorism that originated directly from those countries and for a long ...

    • Socio-cultural Dynamics of Displacement in Adichie’s Novels 

      Ouno Victor Onyango, Kitche Magak, Muhoma Catherine (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 ...

    • Sigendni Luo (Luo proverbs) as Communication Intervention Tool in the Fight against HIV/AIDS among the Luo of Western Kenya 

      Peres Wenje, Charles Nyambuga, Erick Nyambedha, Catherine Muhoma (THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH, 2015)
      In Kenya, HIV/AIDS information and skills dissemination has been mainly through modern communication systems, such as the use of mass media — television, radio, internet, newspapers, and leaflets more than indigenous modes ...

    • Mabadiliko katika Umbo la Ushairi na Athari zake katika Ushairi wa Kiswahili 

      Florence Ngesa Indede (Academic Journals, 2008)
      Mwanadamu amejaribu kwa vyovyote vile kuvumbua na kunyumbua mambo mapya ambayo yataleta mvuto na kupimia akili yake kiubunifu katika hali ya kutaka kutangamana zaidi na binadamu mwenzake au kutaka kuelewa zaidi ulimwengu ...

    • A failed romance: reading masculinity and love in David Karanja's The Girl was Mine 

      Catherine Muhoma (Sabinet, 2005)
      Popular art is not just about entertainment, and this paper explores some of the pertinent issues that one genre of popular fiction, romance, signals. Using the novel The Girl was Mine as a backdrop, the paper concentrates ...

    • Inscribing memory, healing a nation: post-election violence and the search for truth and justice in Kenya Burning 

      Catherine Muhoma, Joyce Nyairo (Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)
      The violence in the wake of the Kenya general elections in December 2007 found one of its most profoundly haunting, provocative and creative expressions in a photographic text called Kenya Burning. This article renders a ...

    • Face threatening acts and standing Orders:‘politeness’ or ‘politics’ in the question time discussions of the Kenyan Parliament 

      Beverlyne Asiko Ambuyo, Florence Ngesa Indede, P Karanja (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) ...

    • Wende Luo (Luo Songs) as an intervention tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS among the Luo of Western Kenya 

      Peres Wenje, Nyambedha Erick, Catherine Muhoma (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 ...

    • Versions of truth and collective memory: The quest for forgiveness and healing in the context of Kenya's postelection violence 

      Catherine Muhoma (Indiana University Press, 2012)
      The Truth, Justice and reconciliation Commission (TJrC) in Kenya was set up in the aftermath of the 2007/8 postelection violence with the mandate of providing a platform for those who had experienced political injustices. ...

    • A Portrait Subverting the Normative Gender Identity 

      Pamela Ngonga Odhacha; Kepha Kitche Magak; Muhoma Akinyi Catherine (Masaimara university, 2018)
      Autobiographical discourses written by women globally in their perceptions indicate that women are struggling to be given an equal playing field in academia and politics. The paper looks at a portrait of the Legacy of ...

    • The Media, Ethnicity and Regional Development in the Lake Victoria Basin 

      CO Nyambuga, DO Onuong’a (J Mass Commun Journalism, 2012)
      This article discusses how the mass media has been able to assist national and regional development. The concepts of media, ethnicity, and regional development are discussed as critical elements that influence regional ...

    • Prospects and Challenges of Teaching and Learning Musics of the World's Cultures: An African Perspective 

      Rose Omolo-Ongati (Australian Academic Press, 2005)

    • DYNAMICS IN CANDIDATES’PREFERENCE CHOICES AT THE KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE) MUSIC PRACTICAL EXAMINATION 

      African music scholars are currently grappling with the challenges of refocusing musical arts based on indigenous knowledge for classroom practice as well as developing Africa-sensed musical arts curricula that use culturally appropriate pedagogies derived from viable theoretical, philosophical and performance practices of indigenous music. The African spirit of humanity encourages all-inclusive participation that bonds participants in performance-based learning situations. The philosophy framing an assessment model should derive from the ideology of humanity (grounded in humane qualities and aspirations) embedded in musical arts education indigenous to the area of a culture. This model should enable and acknowledge demonstration of differentiated innate attributes and take into account the compatible skills of every participant in the learning activity. Rigid assessment yardsticks are often transferred from Western elitist music education practice and used in the assessment of the musical arts in Africa, thus compromising innate musicality. In this article we advocate for assessment initiatives that should enhance the humanity virtues of indigenous intellectual and praxial paradigms, as well as taking note of epistemological logic embedded in contemporary realities. Two different examples from two African countries are used to illustrate our argument (PROBLEMS IN MUSIC PEDAGOGY, 2010)
      Most studies have used the element of listening response to musical stimuli to determine music preferences of the various groups studied. In this study however, the term preference is used to mean the art of choosing one ...