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Persistence of Features of Traditional Healing in the Churches in Africa: The Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya
(2009-12)
One of the attractions of new converts from mainline churches to the African
Instituted Churches (AICs) is faith healing. Healing understood in its wider sense as
the restoration of the wholeness of life is not new to ...
Developing a Sustainable Funding Frame-Work to Support the Road Transport Sub-Sector in Kenya – What Role for Public-Private Partnership?
(University of Nairobi, 2010-09-02)
Road transport sub-sector accounts for 90% of passenger and freight surface transport in Kenya. The latest available reports on road network condition show that it is characterized by very poor pavement surfaces of all ...
The Case for a Policy Framework to Support Productivity Mainstreaming into the Kenyan Economy
(University of Nairobi, 2012-11-08)
This study investigates the probable causes of the very low levels of productivity consciousness in both the public and private sectors of the Kenyan economy. It identifies impediments to the realization of a complete and ...
Economic Growth and Public Sector Size: Examples from Kenya's Vision 2030
(2012-10-15)
The Vision 2030 proposes to contain growth of total expenditures with expenditure rationalization that shifts resources from non-priority to priority areas. This is expected to see the development expenditure increase from ...
Effectiveness of chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination in the treatment of falciparum malaria in a malaria endemic area of Kenya
(1998)
A study on the comparative efficacy of two antimalarial drugs, namely chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine combination in the treatment of falciparum malaria was carried out in Siaya District, Nyanza Province of Kenya. ...
School knowledge and its relevance to everyday life in rural Western Kenya
(2006)
This article examines the relevance of school knowledge in the context of everyday life using ethnographic data collected among primary schoolchildren and adults in rural western Kenya. Using the concept of the educated ...
The new local level politics in East Africa: studies on Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya
(1994)
This research report consists of three studies: Per Tidemand's Ugandan study concentrates on the politics of the new representative local state institutions which emerged in 1986. Andrew Kiondo's Tanzania study focuses on ...
An empirical investigation of selected strategy variables on firms performance: A study of supply chain management in large private manufacturing firms in Kenya
(2011-10)
This paper focuses on the joint effect of selected strategy variables on performance of large private
manufacturing firms of the supply chains in Kenya. To guide the study, two specific objectives have
been used namely: ...
Market fish hygiene in Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus was isolated from 53 out of 584 samples (9·1%) of market fish. All strains were Kanagawa negative and were distributed as follows: sea fish 5 out of 370 samples (1·4%), shellfish 48 out of 214 samples ...
Susceptibility of sweetpotato germplasm to rhizopus soft rot caused by Rhizopus stolonifer and Rhizopus oryzae in Kenya
(2003)
Susceptibility of fifteen local and introduced sweetpotato germplasm to Rhizopus soft rot disease caused by Rliizopus stolonifer and Rliitopus oryzae was tested in 1999 and 2000. Roots were surface sterilised, wounded and ...