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Land use: impact of a new road in Kikuyu Division
(University of NairobiDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning, 1976)The expansion of urban areas into the countryside and, therefore, consequent consumption of rich agricultural hinterlands is an issue that is more and more beginning to attract the attention of physical planners as well ... -
Land, credit and crop transitions in Kenya:The Luo response to directed development in Nyanza Province
(University of Nairobi., 1985-04)A New Scramble? Historians of Africa refer to the late nineteenth century as the time of the Scramble. The European imperial powers sent their "explorers" into the savannahs and rain forests of Africa to claim lands ... -
Landeskundevermittlung Am Beispiel Eines Vergleichs Der „Lost Counties“ In Uganda Und Der Berliner Mauer
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Considering that Teachers of the subject German as a foreign language in secondary schools in Uganda do not put much emphasis on the teaching of cultural studies in the classroom, many learners of this subject find it very ... -
Landlessness: does the law have an answer? with specific referencee to Machakos and Makueni district
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Landscape Planning in the Ngong Hills of Kenya, an integrated approach
(University of Manitoba, CanadaDepartment of Land Development, University of Nairobi, 1987)The Ngong Hills represent a natural resource o fsignificant importance to Kenya. The hills contain valuable agricultural, vegetational, hydrological, visual, recreational and wildlife resources. These support a number ... -
Language and diplomacy: a critical analysis of the role of language in diplomacy
(Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, 2001)The interest into the 'mysteries and myths' of diplomacy are the roots on which this study has developed. The interests into this area of study were necessitated by the different interpretations ... -
Language and Communication in Leadership Situations: a Study of Teacher-learner Interactions in Schools
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Language and gender: a case study of the Ki-Kabete variety of Gikuyu
(Department of Linguistic and African Languages, University of Nairobi, 2006-06)This work is essentially an investigation to establish whether there is semantic 'equivalence' in the connotative value of symmetrical terms that refer to both the male and female gender in Gikuyu, a central Bantu language. ... -
Language and gender: a study on how Tsotso expresses gender
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2009)The most common method of communication is language; prejudices that people harbor within them are reflected through language. This study is an investigation on how gender is expressed in Tsotso, a language that is genderless ... -
Language and regional integration: the role of Kiswahili in east African integration
(University of NairobiInstitute of Diplomacy and International Studies University of Nairobi, 2007)The integration process involving humanity ought to have begun ever since man started living in socialised settings. The study looks at the language as an integral enabler for humanity to live cohesively in bigger ... -
Language and Style in Cartoons: a Case Study of Ben 10
(University of Nairobi, 2015)The purpose of this study is to analyze the language and style used in Ben 10; a Television cartoon programme that has generated interest from the Kenyan children. The study focuses on twenty episodes from four series ... -
Language and the construction of society: a philosophical analysis of metaphors, narratives and palavers among the Adigo people of Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Arts, 1996)Intellectually, we are today living in a period popularly known as postmodernism. The word post-modernisln is itself a full- fledged critique of the process of rationalization usually identified as having originated in ... -
Language As A Survival Strategy In Jennifer Makumbi’S Manchester Happened
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The study sets out to analyse language as a survival strategy in Jennifer Makumbi’s Manchester Happened (2019). The study interrogates the short stories focusing on the creative use of language to represent characters ... -
Language as a tool of abuse against women: the case of the language of matatu touts and University students in Nairobi
(Department of Linguistic and African Languages, University of Nairobi, 2003-09)A notable percentage of men in the society use language to marginalize abuse and demean women. This study is an attempt to study the role of English Kiswahili and Sheng languages in promoting and sustaining the above and ... -
Language attitude in Urban Kenya: The case of Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa
(Department of Linguistic and African Languages, University of Nairobi, 2008)This study attempted a survey of language attitudes in urban Kenya. It mainly focused on Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa. The problem that the study sought to address was the place of attitudes in the process of language ... -
Language in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's fiction
(1997)Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye is a British-born Kenyan writer whose consistent interest in the experiences of women in a rapidly modernizing society is increasingly attracting critical response. Because of her dual cultural ... -
The Language of Kiswahili Newspapers in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Kiswahili, 1994) -
Language of Oppression and Quest for Justice in Kithaka Wa Mberia’s Plays
(University of Nairobi, 2017)This study is on the language of oppression and quest for justice in Kithaka wa Mberia‟s plays. The plays are set in post-colonial Kenya, and oppression appears to be the dominant theme. The study identifies different ... -
Language Use in the Kenyan Newspaper Sunday Nation
(University of Nairobi, 2005)This paper is the result of the study of language use in the Sunday Nation, a newspaper of the Nation Media Group, Nairobi, Kenya. Specifically, the paper was out to discover whether the Sunday Nation had a definable ... -
Language-mixing in the language of advertising a case study of commercial banks and Mobile Telecomunications firms in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2009)This paper presents the results of a linguistic study on the advertising language in Kenya. The study follows the framework of Lexical Pragmatics Theory. Mainly we were out to investigate how language-mixing in advertising ...
