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Inherent Challenges of Immediate Implant Placement in the Aesthetic Zone: a Case Report
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Replacement of missing teeth with implant borne prostheses has become generally become acceptable in the field of dentistry. The traditional “Branemark protocol” has advocated for a period of healing after extraction before ...
Party Institutionalization in Africa: Kenya's 2013 Elections in Comparative Perspective
(Brill, 2015-01)
Since the return of multipartyism, Africa has seen the proliferation of
political parties as vehicles for political contestation. Consequently, this has
triggered curiosity among scholars to ask one main question: Are ...
High Multiple Carriage and Emergence of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Vaccine Serotype Variants in Malawian Children
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Background: Carriage of either single or multiple pneumococcal serotypes (multiple carriage) is a prerequisite for
developing invasive pneumococcal disease. However, despite the reported high rates of pneumococcal carriage ...
The challenges facing German studies programmes in Kenya: a case study of the University of Nairobi
(2015)
The German Studies (GS) programme has been offered since 1981 at the
University of Nairobi (UoN), 1986 at Kenyatta University (KU), and 2009 at
Moi University. By now, the programme should have come of age and be
producing ...
Mchongoano and the ethnography of communication
(2015)
This paper is an attempt to give an ethnographic description of
mchongoano in order to understand how it achieves its objectives.
Mchongoano is a verbal duelling game popular with young people in Kenya
but also appreciated ...
Alignment systems and passive-antipassive distribution in nilotic languages
(2015)
This paper discusses the occurrence of passive and antipassive
constructions in Nilotic languages in relation to the question of whether
Nilotic languages developed from an ergative-absolutive to a nominativeaccusative
case ...
Sexual intercourse euphemisms in the Gĩkũyũ language: a cognitive linguistics approach
(2015)
The research on which this paper is based set out to identify the sexual
intercourse euphemisms used in Gĩkũyũ, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya,
then discuss the semantic and lexical processes used in those euphemisms,
and, ...
Inflectional forms of tense and aspect in Ateso
(2015)
This paper is an analysis of tense and aspect in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic
language. Ateso distinguishes between past and non-past tenses: the past
tense is marked by a low tone on the syllable peaks of the verb, while ...