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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 ...
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 ...
From household to region: the marketing/production interface
(1983)
Academic interest in African pastoralism increased considerably in
the 1970s and early 1980s. Studies in this time period emphasized,
inter alia, ecology and subsistence production, political economy,
farmer/pastoralists ...
Kenya’s sales taxation incidence analysis
(University of Nairobi, 1982-09)
The concern of this study was to find out the impact of a
sales tax on income distribution. and inflation. The study was
also concerned with the effectiveness of sumptuary taxes in
reducing the consumption of sumptuary ...
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o:A study of his artistic vision and craftsmanship
(1988)
Ngugi's fiction confronts us openly with the
issue of the meaning and value of our modern historical
and socio-political experience. Like Soyinka,
he is preoccupied with the question of "self apprehension."
To carry ...
Fatigue crack propagation in structural steel
(1983)
For several years now, structural steel consumers in Kenya have been using locally cast and rolled steel products. Some of these consumers, (notably fabricators of passenger vehicle structural frameworks) have been ...
Factor substitution in Kenya is manufacturing sector
(1986-06)
In comparison to other development objectives in the LDCs, the promotion of employment is most important. This is in appreciation of its versatility; employment creation is the centre pole in alleviation of poverty, promotion ...