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Tradition and social change in the works of Sembene Ousmane
(University of Nairobi, 1989-06)
This thesis entitled "Tradition and Social Change in
the works of Sembene Ousmane" investigates the treatment of
traditional African institutions in selected works of
fiction by Ousmane.
institutions to the present ...
A Literary artist's understanding of ''freedom'': A study of existentialist influences in tile short stories and poems of Taban Lo Liyong
(University of Nairobi., 1989-09)
Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's most prolific
literary writers and arguably, the most controversial.
He is one writer whose works have baffled most
literary critics specifically because of his
iconoclastic ideas as ...
Groundwater occurrence in the Isenya area, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1989)
This thesis describes the results of a resistivity study
performed in the period September, 1987 - September, 1988 in the
Isenya area, some 56 Krn south. of Nairobi, Kenya. The main
objective of the study was to delineate ...
Photogrammetric densification of ground control
(1989)
In many types of surveys, it is essential to have
ground control points. These are points on the ground
whose coordinates are known in a ground system to a
certain standard of accuracy .
. A situation arises when the ...
The role of resource use optimization in improving farm incomes in small-scale irrigation schemes: a case study of Mitunguu irrigation project in Meru district, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1989)
This research was carried out in Mitunguu Irrigation Project which is an organised Smallscale Public Irrigation Scheme.Mitunguu Irrigation Project covers 400 Ha of gravity fed sprinkler irrigation. The project has a potential ...
Rural-Urban Relations and Agrarian Development in Kutus Area, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1989)
A considerable flow of resources takes place at the household
level from urban to rural and from non-agricultural to
agricultural activities by way of urban-rural remittances,
non farm income, and return migration. The ...
Weibull distribution and its application on wind speed data
(1989)
In this project we discuss several methods of
estimation of the parameters of the three-parameter
Weibull distribution. It has been found that the Weibull
distribution gives the best results in characterising
surface ...