Abstract: This study looks at human trafficking as a significant social problem in Kenya and the counter trafficking efforts. To understand the efficacy of the law, it is essential first to understand human trafficking as a crime and its parameters. However, due to the vast definitions of the vice and the leeway of different states interpreting it according to their values and culture, it is an uphill task. This is not to mean that the crime cannot be understood if it is put in context. For ...
Abstract: The Boko Haram has been responsible for several violent attacks over the past several years, including bombings against the Nigerian state in the north, and has broadened its chaotic and dangerously life-threatening mayhem to the south, where it has attacked delicate targets in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. High-profile government agencies, markets, banks, police stations, mosques and churches have not been spared of such attacks. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact...
Abstract: This research focuses on the effectiveness of the international community in minimizing state orchestrated police brutality. The specific objectives of the study were to: establish the response of the international community actors, explore how sovereignty is negotiated between the international community and individual member states, and determine if there is a significant effort by the international community in reducing state orchestrated Police brutality in Uganda. Nigeria, and...
Abstract: Electoral processes are perhaps the most vulnerable stages in a country's domestic political cycle. Uncertainty, tension, righteousness, and indignation often breed anger and violence during an electoral period. Rift Valley is one of the regions in Kenya that experienced the 2007 post-election violence, the Rift Valley area has a historical division along ethnic lines pitting the two dominating communities (Kalenjin and Kikuyu) against each other. Rift Valley was the epicenter of v...
Abstract: From intense droughts to heavy rainfall and rising sea levels, climate change is causing erratic weather patterns all over the world. According to current academic research rural women, more than men, are the most vulnerable to the effects of this changing weather. In this light, this research study looks at the adaptation strategies being utilized by rural women in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, as their daily lives are threatened by the rising temperatures of climate change. The se...
Abstract: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a complex and dynamic issue. Its analysis requires human rights approaches, and social, religious and cultural sensitivity. The negative effects associated with the practice have been documented by the World Health Organization (WHO), in short and long-term. The efforts to end FGM by various agencies have been recently enhanced. However, the fruits of these efforts are yet to mature in most rural communities. This thesis has analysed popular and e...
Abstract: Political parties play an instrumental role in organizing national and local politics and are pivotal in consolidating democracy. The trademarks of democracy include governments opening up their public affairs to active citizen engagement as well as their level of accountability. Subsequent to the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 was a new trajectory in world politics which ushered in multipartism in African states. The political liberalization of Kenya that began in the 19...
Abstract: In the last few years, a significant number of Kenyans have temporarily migrated to the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries namely; Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates in search of jobs in the labor shortage region. There are approximately four (4) million Kenyans in the diaspora 200,000 of whom are said to be in the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Saudi Arabia claims the largest portion of this number. For most Kenyans, the rising levels of u...
Abstract: Regional integration is a renowned global phenomenon through which states and countries come together in cooperation with the aim of actualizing specified goals and objectives. Integration in Africa and East Africa is inseparable from the colonial history. In East Africa it dates back to the colonial times as the European colonialists sought to bring together Kenya Uganda and Tanzania in socio-economic and political cooperation. The process has undergone different phases to its pre...
Abstract: Governance systems and structures are a critical determinant to whether countries will achieve their aspirations especially on matters of development. In its quest to spur development and combat challenges like marginalization and poverty, Kenya decided to shift its governance system from a more centralized to a devolved system under the new constitution that was promulgated in the year 2010. This research therefore sought to investigate whether devolution has had an impact in redu...
Abstract: The Kenyan constitution in Article 43(1)(a) clearly states that every Kenyan has a right to "to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care". The Kenyan constitution equally recognises the role of the government in eliminating barriers to health care access in Article 56. This was further affirmed in December 2017, when the president of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta pronounced the "Big ...
Abstract: This study examined the discourse characterizing alternative narratives on the Tigray conflict with the aim of establishing what informs a shift in information consumption behaviours during censorship. It was aimed at filling the knowledge gap on understanding the new information creation and consumption habits that emerge from censorship that pushes people into utilizing alternative media. It examined the Tigray conflict between mid-November 2020 and mid-March 2021 where the Ethio...
Abstract: The role of nationalism in human affairs has great historical precedent. Nationalism relays great sentimental and moralistic value to both state actors and the individual citizens that internalize it. In this sense it can be understood as key driver of policy formulation and implementation in states. The study is an inquiry into the foreign policy of Kenya during the 1963-1991 by asking whether and how nationalism influenced its formation and practice. To do this, the study first e...
Abstract: The concept of gender-based affirmative actions is applied in the security sector to integrate men’s and women’s experiences and concerns in designing, implementing, mentoring, and evaluating policies to ensure equality is perpetuated at all levels. This study argues that gendered affirmative action would increase the representation, promotions and recruitment of women into the security sector. The target population for this study included personnel at Kenya’s National Police...
Abstract: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of community engagement in development assistance interventions with a focus on projects funded and implemented by USAID in Kenya. It was guided by the following specific objectives: to analyse the role of community engagement in development assistance interventions specifically in Samburu and Turkana counties; to analyse the role of foreign aid programs in development assistance interventions with a focus on the USAID’s Nawiri proje...