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(E) Merging of the Old with (in) the New: Continuity of Children’s Play Songs and Rhymes in East African Hip Hop Culture.
(KOLA, 2023-09)
Recording music and disco is not very old in Africa. However, this does not mean that there was an absence of musical performances for public consumption. Hip Hop music, coming from the disco background where the Disc ...
A Socio-Cultural Discourse Representation of Women in Bukusu and Gusii Proverbs
(KOLA, 2023-09-08)
This paper examines the main attributions attached to women in Bukusu and Gusii proverbs. Specifically, the paper reports on how women are represented in proverbs in these cultures; which aspects of their lives are highlighted ...
Social dialogue for the social sector
(UoN Law Journal, 2023-07-10)
Labour disputes in Kenya frequently have more casualties beyond the parties concerned. There is an especially high frequency of labour disputes in the social sectors in Kenya, with a significant portion originating from ...
Women’s Perspectives on The Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC):A Case Of Kenyan Mothers Of Children With Dyslexia.
(JPAHAP, 2023-08-31)
Dyslexia is a reading disability that affects 1 in every 5 children globally, yet in Africa, it remains largely unidentified and undiagnosed. Although mothers of children with dyslexia are key stakeholders and play a ...
Decentralization of Teachers’ Recruitment and Promotion of Teachers: Predictor of Service Delivery among Public Secondary School Teachers in Westlands Sub County, Kenya.
(JPAHAP, 2023-08-31)
The purpose of the study was to investigate influence of decentralization of Teachers Service Commission functions on service delivery among public secondary school teachers in Westlands Sub-County, Kenya. The study was ...
Folklore and Socio-Political Identity in Joe Khamisi’s The Politics of Betrayal: Diary of a Kenyan Legislator and Dash Before Dusk: A Slave Descendant’s Journey in Freedom
(KOLA, 2023-09)
Joe Khamisi’s first publication The Politics of Betrayal is a memoir and the second
Dash Before Dusk is an autobiography. They both contain a personal and a group
identity narration capturing a period in the Kenyan ...
The De-Tribalized Generation: The East Africa Hip-Hop Artist.
(KOLA, 2023-09)
The East African urban setting has produced a generation that lives within cultural
grey areas that have no clear ethnic leanings. The youth who inhabit these urban
spaces are caught in a world with forces that pull ...
Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
This paper highlights the challenges faced by female sex workers living and working in the urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Covid-19 outbreak and the aftermath of the pandemic. Using data collected ...
Explanatory models, illness, and treatment experiences of patients with psychosis using the services of traditional and faith healers in three African countries: Similarities and discontinuities
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
As part of formative studies to design a program of collaborative care for persons with psychosis, we explored personal experience and lay attributions of illness as well as treatment among persons who had recently received ...
Expanding the sociolinguistic space for the emergence of hybrid mother tongues in Africa: The case of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
This paper examines the key factors to consider when selecting the language(s) that would be most appropriate as media of instruction in schools within a multi-cultural and multilingual setting - in this case Nairobi, the ...