School of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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STUDENT FACTORS RELATED TO MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF MASABA SOUTH SUB COUNTY, KENYA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
(2010)Performance in mathematics in Masaba Sub-County, Kenya has been poor for many years. In 2010 the mean score was 3.2282, while in 2011 it had a mean score of 3.9528 and in 2012 it had a mean of 4.0660 which is far below ... -
Organizational cultural factors hindering women ascending to top management positions in public universities in Kenya: a case of Moi University
(IISTE, 2011)It is observed that the major setback to economic development in Kenya is stagnation in industrial development. To overcome these, Kenya plans to be a middle level income nation by the year 2030. These plans are to ... -
Factors Contributing to Dismal Performance in Mathematics among Secondary School Girls in Nyamira County, Kenya
(2014)A good mathematics education is salient to scientific and technological development. The Kenya National Examinations Council evaluates the performance of students through the examinations it offers. Evaluation of the ... -
Correlates between levels of education in relation to marital satisfaction in KISII township of KISII county, Kenya
(International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 2014-11-01)Marital satisfaction is a pertinent ingredient to the stability of any nation, given that the family is the basic unit of any nation. Too much marital dissatisfaction leads to family members being unstable socially which ... -
Factors Affecting the Utilisation of Time as a Selected Teaching/Learning Resource in Public Day Secondary Schools in Nyacheki Division, Kisii County, Kenya
(Pacharapa Naka, 2016)The Kenyan government provides financial and technical help for the provision of teaching learning resources in secondary schools Despite the government’s effort to allocate resources to secondary schools, there is still ... -
Predicting self-employment intentions and entry in Germany and East Africa: an investigation of the impact of mentoring, entrepreneurial attitudes, and psychological capital
(Routledge, 2019-10-03)Self-employment is a feasible and in some contexts the most available form of employment especially for new entrants into the labor market. Understanding student’s willingness to go into self-employment and the factors ... -
Impact of personal cultural orientations and cultural intelligence on subjective success in self-employment in multi-ethnic societies
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019-12-01)The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of personal cultural orientation and behavioral aspect of cultural intelligence on subjective success in self-employment in a multi-ethnic context. Based on Sharma (J Acad ... -
Factors that influence local attitudes towards refugees in Kenya
(Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 2004)This study focused on the factors that influence local attitudes towards refugees in Kenya. The study was carried out on two sites: Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa District in North Eastern Province, and the former Thika ... -
Deteriorating conditions of hosting refugees: A case study of the Dadaab complex in Kenya
(The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 2008)This study describes the deteriorating conditions of hosting refugees at three camps (Ifo, Hagadera, and Dagahaley, popularly known as the Dadaab complex) that have been hosting refugees in the semi-arid northeastern part ... -
Animating ‘refugeeness’ through vulnerabilities: worthiness of long-term exile in resettlement claims among Somali refugees in Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-08)Refugees are generally viewed as a transitory problem. In many African countries, however, protracted refugee situations have turned the temporary refugee state into a more or less permanent phenomenon. In this article, I ... -
Ethnic minorities wedged up in post-election violence in Kenya: a lesson for African governments
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2009-07-01)On 27 December 2007, some ten million Kenyans went to the polls in what were generally anticipated to be the most hotly contested and close-run presidential, parliamentary and civic elections in the country’s 45 years since ... -
AFRICA PEACE AND CONFLICT
(University for Peac, 2009)The mission of the University for Peace is to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings a spirit of understanding, tolerance, and ... -
Silent religiosity in a snivelling nation: the role of religious institutions in promoting post-conflict reconciliation in Kenya
(2009)This article seeks to examine the role of religious institutions in peace building, prior to and after the 2007 post-elections violence in Kenya. The author builds an argument that supports the view that religious institutions ... -
Terror, Religion, or Socialism?: The Faces of MỦngỈkỈ Sect in The Kenyan Public Space
(Yaoundé, Cameroun, 2008-12-11)This paper examines how Mủngỉkỉ members have used the sect in the public space as a tool of emancipation. In the paper I argue that Mủngỉkỉ has been using different faces in terms of religion, names, and approaches, to ... -
DRAFT WORKING PAPER – NOT FOR CIRCULATION OR CITATION
(2009)Of the many catastrophes that the African continent has faced, HIV/AIDS is grouped among the most threatening cataclysms. The disease and its repercussions not only affect families and communities, but also have a ... -
Indiana University Press
(Indiana University Press., 2018-10-18)This article examines the role and future of indigenous theatrical performances (ITPs) in peacebuilding in Kenya. It focuses on the Kikuyu, Luhya, and Luo communities’ traditions of ritual, storytelling, proverb, and song ... -
New Europe College Yearbook 2010-2011
(2010)Between 1920 and 1940 the relationship between culture and ethnicity constituted one of the most dominant political themes in Eastern Europe. The cultural, historical, anthropological debates shaped national identity in ... -
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 ... -
Somali refugees in Kenya and social resilience: Resettlement imaginings and the longing for Minnesota
(Oxford University Press, 2018-10-01)Refugee camps are often perceived as unproductive places that waste people’s potential. What is left unremarked in many refugee accounts, however, is the positive side of camps. Highlighting suffering alone raises academic ...
