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Logistics management practices and customer satisfaction: the mediating effect of logistics service quality among the Shippers in Kenya
(Ajbuma, 2022-03-25)The key objective of this study was to determine the effect of Logistics Service Quality (LSQ) on the relationship between Logistics Management Practices (LMPs) and customer satisfaction of shippers in Kenya. Subsequently, ... -
Logistics of outsourcing practices and performance of large manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya
(School of Business, 2012-10)In globalized and highly competitive markets, organizations strive to be innovative and agile to meet customer demands. Competitiveness, based on organizational capabilities and production strategies, may lead to quality, ... -
logo Informal Credit and Rural Small Enterprises Growth
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1988)The broad question addressed in this analysis is the role of small enterprises in rural sustainable development. The focus is on the contributions of informal credit in light of the dismal performance of formal credit to ... -
Lome IV: Dynamic or Static Improvement on the Previous conventions? The Sub-Saharan Africa Perspective
(School of Law, 1994)The First Lomé Convention between the EC and the ACP countries was signed in 1975. It was followed by Lomé II and Lomé III. When Lomé III expired in 1990 it was replaced by Lomé IV. This article deals with Lomé IV, examining ... -
A lone ranger: My journey towards becoming a feminist geographer in Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Very few Kenyan universities offer modules on Gender or Feminism in their courses. Women are largely under-represented and very few hold senior positions. Due to the few numbers of female faculty, mentorship for young ... -
Lopae: Geographical Dispersal Of Friendship In Turkana"
(University of NairobiInstitute of Development Studies, 1994)Lopae are special friendships among the nomadic Turkana pastoralists based on the exchange of stock animals and other gifts. This study of lopae among semi-sedentary southern Turkana has shown that: ... -
Lost African Childhoods: Two Narratives of War and Slavery from Africa in Mende Nazer's "Slave" and Senait Mehari's "Heart of Fire"
(2009)Are human rights discourses adequate to address instances of rights abuses in Africa? Would human rights discourses and practices address inadequacies of state governance or even in situation where the state is complicit ... -
Lost Africans Childhoods: Two Narratives of War and Slavery from Africa in Mende Nazer’s Slave and Senait Mehari’s Heart of Fire
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The Low Acceptability and Use of Condoms within Marriage: Evidence from Nakuru District, Kenya
(University of NairobiPopulation Studies and Research Institute, 2003)In the last two decades, there has been an increase in the prevalence of contraceptive use in Kenya. While use of modern contraceptives has been successful in preventing unwanted pregnancy, it has not been so successful ... -
Lugha ya Kiswahili Pijini au Krioli
(Dar es SalaamSchool of Linguistics and Languages, 2002) -
Luke's Gospel, Weekly Review
(Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1986) -
Lulu ya Maisha
(University of NairobiDepartment of Linguistic and Languages, 2013) -
The Luo care for widows (Lako) and contemporary challenges
(Department of Philosophy and Religious studies, University of Nairobi, 2012-06)This paper examines the Luo custom of caring for a ‘widow’ and for the home of a deceased husband, its rationale and some of its contemporary challenges. The paper maintains that this custom is still the best alternative ... -
The Luo culture. A reconstruction of the material culture patterns of a traditional African society
(Population Studies and Research Institute, 1980)A theoretical and descriptive study is made of the distribution of the Nilotic Luo culture patterns, dealing with the basic hypotheses of patterns and descriptions of patterns which existed in the recent past. It is divided ... -
Luo Meets Latin: Linguistic Evidence For Contacts Between Speakers Of Pre-dholuo And Speakers Of Lation.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Linguistics and Languages, 1991) -
Lysistrata in Nairobi: performing the power of womanhood in the post‐colony
(Department of Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 1999)This paper is based on my personal experience of adapting and producing the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata1 in Nairobi, Kenya. Originally written by Aristophanes in the fifth century BC, the play gives voice to the ... -
L’enseignement du français dans le contexte multilingue Est-Africain et kenyan
(Kenyatta University,School of French, 2011) -
L’impact du VIH/SIDA sur la main d’œuvre productive in Africa
(University of Nairobi,School of Economics, 1995) -
De l’intellectuel à l’expert – Les sciences sociales africaines dans la tourmente: le cas du Kenya
(Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi, 2008)