Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Environment For Development - The Human Dimension
(University of Nairobi, 2006)The productivity and sustainability of Africa ’s environment is heavily dependent on how this asset is managed. This, in turn, can affect the availability, stocks and functioning of the remaining assets, either enhancing ... -
Law and the Status of Women in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1995)Kenya has a geographical area of 583,000 square kms. and is bordered by Somalia to the north east, Indian Ocean to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the South. Currently, the population ... -
The Women's Movement in Kenya: An Overview
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Effect Of Workforce Diversity Management On Employee Performance In The Banking Industry In Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2012)The rapid growth in the Banking industry has posed several challenges such as workforce diversity which is a natural phenomenon that has both negative and positive impacts on employee performance depending on how well ... -
Brand Personality and the Evolution of Destination Kenya during the Colonial Period
(University of Nairobi, 2013)This paper offers an intellectual discourse for destination managers by exploring alternative branding approaches used during the colonial period in Kenya, now that the image is under siege both internally through ... -
Building a Humane Society’: An Intellectual Sketch of H. Odera Oruka
(University of Nairobi, 2013)This paper discusses Odera Oruka’s philosophical work from the perspective of its emphasis on the ‘practical’ impetus that Oruka himself underlined. In different ways, his various projects - his sage philosophy, his ... -
African and Non-African Time: To Contrast or not to Contrast? The Geo-political Convenience of Conceptual Dichotomization
(University of Nairobi, 2013)This essay offers a critique of the controversial proposal that peculiarities in African thought concerning time have a negative impact upon African economic development. The proposal under scrutiny takes the form of two ... -
The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics
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Onsanse's language: Not more than two-word utterances after forty years of exposure to four languages
(2013)This paper set out to investigate the amount and nature of language the subject of the study (Onsanse)has learnt for four decades of exposure to several languages after being picked up at the age of 17, when he could produce ... -
Great expectations for the World Health Organization: a Framework Convention on Global Health to achieve universal health coverage
(University of Nairobi, 2014-02)Establishing a reform agenda for the World Health Organization (WHO) requires understanding its role within the wider global health system and the purposes of that wider global health system. In this paper, the focus is ... -
Varsity Launches Refreshing Mineral Water
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University Hosts First Confucius Institutes Conference in Africa
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Before The Earth Receives My Bones: Clips Of The Somali Belwo
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“Hopelessness In Lenrie Peters’ ‘In The Beginning
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)In the beginning” is the first line of “45” one of the poems in Satellitesby Lenrie Peters.3Thisis a narrative poem that tellsa story of the closingperiodof colonialismand the inaugural years of ... -
Export Propensity and Intensity of Kenyan Manufacturing Firms:An Empirical Analysis
(2013-08)The study uses firm-level panel data from the manufacturing sector in Kenya to analyze the determinants of export propensity and intensity over the period 1992-2003. The focus of the study is on effects of total factor ... -
The work Ethic
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Electronic Journal Service
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From Research to Action: a Case Study of the Kenya National Alliance of Stree Vendors and Information Traders (KENASVIT)
(University of Nairobi,, 2006)