Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Transparent narratives: a critique of style of theatre for social justice in Kenya
(The Nairobi Journal of Literature, 2022-11)Literary genres and intra-genre typologies have particular stylistic features that define them. Theatre for social justice bespeaks of a theatre programmed to achieve certain goals. We hypothesise that its special purpose ... -
The Neglected Link: Safeguarding Pollinators for Sustainable Development in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Efforts to achieve sustainable development have never been greater the world over. Most, if not all states and non-governmental organisations, are coming up with multisectoral measures to promote the sustainable development ... -
Dealing with Conflicts in Project Management
(University of Nairobi, 2018)This paper addresses the issue of dealing with conflicts in project management. It looks at the range of conflict management mechanisms available to parties in the course of project management in Kenya. Their various ... -
Depiction of the younger generation in Kenyan Swahili Women’s Prose in the twenty first century -Mikhail Gromov
(The Nairobi Journal of LITERATURE, 2022-11-07)The article analyzes how the problems of Kenyan younger generation are depicted in the recently emerged women’s literature in Swahili, giving an overview of both larger prosaic genres, such as novel, and shorter prose, ... -
The problems of Kenyan female youth in the Novels of Moraa Gitaa-Alina Rinkanya
(The Nairobi Journal of LITERATURE, 2022-11-08)Moraa Gitaa is one of the most prolific and well-known Kenyan women authors of the new generation. Born and raised in Mombasa, she has worked for more than 15 years with various organizations, among them ... -
Kikuyu Ogres Oral Narrative and Posthuman Thinking-Inge Brinkman
(The Nairobi Journal of LITERATURE, 2022-11-07)n this contribution I would like to offer an interpretation on ogres and humans in Gikuyu oral narratives, focusing on the earliest records of such stories in the colonial era. Gikuyu oral narratives have ... -
A Comparative Reading of Ngugi wa Thiongos and Binyavanga Wainanas Memoirs-Susanne Gehrmann
(The Nairobi Journal of LITERATURE, 2022-11-08)The publication of three volumes of memoirs by of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o between 2010 and 2016: Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver, has been a major literary event for Kenyan ... -
Eastern African Literature in the 21st Century: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives
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Attaining Gender Equity for Inclusive Development in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)This paper critically examines the concept of gender equity and the role it can play in achievement of inclusive development in Kenya. Despite its importance and constitutional recognition, gender equity is an ideal that ... -
Securing the Realisation of Environmental and Social Rights for Persons With Disabilities in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2021)The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 promotes the development agenda and also human rights in general. The inclusion of all persons is thus provided for. It is necessary to streamline the participation of Persons with Disabilities ... -
Improving Provision of Family Planning Among Pastoralists in Kenya: Perspectives From Health Care Providers, Community and Religious Leaders
(University of Nairobi, 2022)There exist significant inequities in access to family planning (FP) in Kenya, particularly for nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists. Health care providers (HCP), are key in delivering FP services. Community leaders and ... -
The Art of Narrating Pain in Margaret Ogola’s Place of Destiny
(Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2022-06-27)This paper examines how Margaret Ogola narrates pain and suffering in her novel, Place of Destiny. I am persuaded that literature being a discursive subject which serves as a mediating force in the society, Ogola uses this ... -
The ‘Perplexing African in China’: A Reading of Black Ghosts by Ken Kamoche
(Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2022-06-11)African countries and China have had contact since the late 15th Century. These ties have been strengthened with more studies interrogating what both sides stand to gain. At the center of these ties lie misconceptions, ... -
Adoption of Adult Voice and the Integrity of the Child Narrator in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Dreams in a Time of War
(Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2022-06)This article evaluates Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s adoption of adult voice in manipulating the child narrator in his childhood memoir Dreams in a Time of War. Situating our discussion on theories of narratology, autobiography and ... -
Colonialism and the Repression of Nairobi African Women Street Traders in the 1940s
(PAK, 2022-06-30)By the 1940s, the Municipal Council of Nairobi had enacted a host of By-Laws to control the presence of Africans, especially women, and had set up several agencies to implement them. Consequently, women street vendors ... -
Critical Thinking and Kenyan Women’s Novel
(Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2022-06-11)Critical thinking, according to one of its numerous definitions, is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing information gathered from empirical experience. This process appears to ... -
The Legal Impunity for Marital Rape in Kenya: a Women’s Equality Issue
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Is Africa’s Fiscal Space Undermined by Debt related Illicit Financial Flows?A Case Study of Selected SADC Member States
(Committee on Fiscal Studies, 2022-09-03)Fiscal activism relates to the extent to which African governments can generate revenue to meet their financing needs. It is, therefore, a priority policy issue at all levels of governance both domestically and ... -
Resolving the Debt Sustainability Issues from a Legal and Institutional Perspective : a kenyan case study
(Committee on Fiscal Studies, 2022-09-03)The paper arguesthat the promulgation of the Constitutionof Kenya2010, the enactment of the enabling domestic laws,1and the medium-term debt management strategies prepared by the Kenyan Ministry of Finance has not helped ... -
Changing Identities and Refunctionalisation of Heritage : A Case Study of Nairobi Clubhouse Demolition and Regeneration
(Africa Habitat Review, 2022)This research study sought to analyze the demolition and regeneration of the Nairobi Railways Clubhouse within the context of not only the evolution of Nairobi City as a major urban metropolis, but also continued evolution ...