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Mean and seasonal diurnal variation of precipitation in East Africa
(University of Nairobi, 1983)
This study was undertaken to establish the geographical
and seasonal distribution of the diurnal variation of precipitation
in East Africa. An analysis of the diurnal variation of
precipitation at about fifty different ...
The Bukura and Mbesa pyrite mineralisation of Western Kenya
(1983)
The predominantly pyrite - pyrrhotite Bukura and Mbesa
mineralisation occurs in the Kakamega District of the Western
Province of Kenya. The study area in which this mineralisation
occurs covers approximately 244 km ...
A study of effective rainfall for crop production
(1982)
The agricultural potential of marginal rainfall areas
is very much dependent on the intensity, distribution and
duration of the rains, which in dry regions are very variable
between years, seasons and even within a ...
The Politics Of A Changing Society, Mumias
(University of Nairobi., 1980)
This is a study of a peasant society, Wanga,
that has undergone a subtle process of transformation over the last few years due to the establishment
of :a sugar industry in its midst.
The thesis, however, begins ...
Heavy metal concentration in Kenyan lakes
(1981)
The concentrations of manganese, copper, zinc,
cadmium, mercury and lead were determined in filtered
water, sediment, suspended particulate matter and
plant material from seven of the Kenyan lakes using
Atomic Absorption ...
A performance study on flexible road pavements in Kenya
(1983)
This research study set out to evaluate the
pe rrorrnanoe o f some six road test sections locat.ed
on in-service bitumen standard roads in and around
Nairobi, Kenya. The selected road test sections
were:-
(L) Thika ...
Household dynamics and rural political economy among Embu farmers in the Kenya Highlands
(University of Nairobi, 1984)
While Embu's land is fertile and rainfall high, the principal "avenues to wealth accumulation lie outside of farming. Education, salaries, and businesses are the means of accumulating wealth in land, cash, and ...
Population pressure on urban housing: The case of Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi., 1982-01)
This study addresses itself to the factors which
have led to the present housing problem in Nairobi.
Past studies have approached the housing problem from
the legal, economic and sociological perspectives.
This one has ...
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 ...
Omosa_The fuelwood crisis in rural Kenya: a socio-economic analysis of the causes and effects of the fuelwood scarcity in Bura irrigation settlement scheme Tana River District
(1987)
This study is a socio-economic analysis of the causes and effects
of the fuelwood scarcity in Bura Irrigation Settlement Scheme -
Tana River District. The main object ives were to exp lain:
factors that influence fuelwood ...