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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 ...
Influence of farmer capacity building in financial mobilisation on performance of smallholder irrigation projects in Migori County, Kenya.
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)
Irrigation is increasingly being accepted as a precursor to food security, employment creation and
economic development. Irrigation accounts for up to 40% of world food production (Asian
Development Bank [ADB], 2015). ...
Customer characteristics and over-indebtedness in Kenya
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)
The influence of an individual’s characteristics on their financial decisions has always been an area of great interest to researchers. The use of customer characteristics to predict the decisions that a customer will make ...
Strategic leadership and strategy implementation in Commercial Banks in South Sudan: the role of organizational structure
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)
The main objective of the study was to establish the role of organizational structure on the relationship between strategic leadership and strategy implementation in commercial banks in South Sudan. The subsequent hypothesis ...
Government ownership and financial performance of state enterprises: Kenyan perspective
(AJBUMA, 2023-07-14)
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between government ownership and the financial performance of state enterprises in Kenya. To achieve this objective, a positivist philosophy was adopted, ...
The Gender Variable In The Meanings Assigned To Three English Address Terms By Teachers In Kenya
(UoN, 2018)
This paper investigated the range of meanings assigned to the address terms madam, boss and my dear in English usage in Kenya, with gender as an independent variable. It started from three working hypotheses: a) both men ...
Topic, Focus, And Word Order In The Kiswahili Clause
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
The Kiswahili language has been classified as an SVO language. This paper argues that the SVO word order is dependent on the occurrence of both the subject and object overtly. When the two do not surface overtly, the word ...
The Tonal Patterns of Nouns in Isolation in the Lwisukha Dialect of Luyia
(University of Nairobi, 2020)
This paper describes the tonal system of nouns uttered in isolation in the Lwisukha dialect of Luyia, a Bantu language of Kenya. The nouns analysed in this paper were uttered by 12 respondents. Each noun was uttered three ...
Differences of Age and Gender in Pitch Range Modulation in Yes-no Questions in Ekegusii
(University of Nairobi, 2022)
Gender Identity Through The Ekegusii Naming System
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
This paper analyses Ekegusii names and how they relate to gender identity. It shows how the naming system is basically based on the premise that a male is socialized to ‘gather wealth’, hence the term omosacha (‘man/husband’), ...