ABSTRACT This study seeks to investigate the history, practices and transformation of the Akurinu movement, a religious group that emerged in Kandara sub-County, Murang’a County in Central Kenya in the 1920s. Its emergence was as a response to the socio-economic, political, and religio-cultural conflict caused by British colonial administration and the teachings of western Christian Missionaries in Gikuyu land. In the colonial period the Akurinu movement became withdrawn from the society a...
ABSTRACT The media in Kampala and Uganda as a whole, through its cardinal roles of informing and disseminating knowledge, can be of help to the government campaign of attracting foreign investors in Kampala. This campaign is one of the various government efforts to push economic development in the country. The media can go a long way in doing this, by informing people about the vanous government programs, the investor incentives put in place by government such as 'free' land, power, che...
ABSTRACT Cheating in examination is a very bad habit that has disadvantages for all the parties involved. The student, teacher, the school and even the examination council all stand to lose when students cheat in examinations. Examination irregularities in Kenya have been found noted at every release of the KCSE results and few measures have been put in place to curb the vice. The underlying objective of this study was to investigate into the Nature and causes of National Examinations irregul...
ABSTRACT African traditional theatre is caught up within the vortex of Western inferiorization, the need for documentation, and a conflict of opinions between African dramatic scholars (the evolutionists and the relativists). The indigenous festival traditions in Africa have been described by Finnegan (1970) as ‘quasi-dramatic’ and they lack the dramatic structure of the West. This view by evolutionists is against that of the relativists who claim that traditional festivals in Africa are...
ABSTRACT The study was mainly to examine how free food provision at school impacts on the academic performance of pupils in KAKUZI division of Thika East district. The study was intended to answer the following research questions: How is the accessibility of free food by the pupils? How does free school feeding affect pupils' attendance at school? And how does class attendance affect pupil performance in class? The methods used questionnaires, interviews, observation and review of literature...
ABSTRACT Service delivery and decentralization are vital for effective operations of local governments. The significant weights are based on the important prospects that are defined in Malakal County service delivery process. However the research provides an important milestone that help to establish a well guided understanding of weakness and strengths in decentralization policies and process and how, if any might results in, better service delivery for stockholders which increase the state�...
ABSTRACT This research is about the role of magazines in promoting Tourism in Tanzania taking case study of tantravel, arusha as a study area. The general objective of this study was to determine whether magazines have any influence towards tourism development. While specific objectives of this study were to find out whether there is relationship between magazines and tourists both local and foreign, and to suggest possible measure that may be taken to improve magazines or tourism developmen...
ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the impact of the medium of television on the sexual behavior of teenagers in Buwenge town council, Jinja District. The study employed the use of survey research designs were semi-structured questioned Were issued to the different respondents and returned after a given period of time. Simple random sampling was used during the study where individuals of the same size had equal chances of being sampled. The study also engaged the use of interviews where the ...
ABSTRACT In relation to the recent Standard Media Group raid, the question of the government's dedication to upholding media freedom was voiced. It is because of the above need that the researcher undertook to examine the case and various factors contributing to media relations with the government. The maJor rum of this paper was to examme the vanous incidences of media violations in the past few years in Kenya. This study looked at the predisposing factors and the different views and opinio...
ABSTRACT Attainment of sustainable development among communities affected by persistent environmental degradation, poverty and food insecurity remain a global, regional and national challenge. Suba sub-County is endowed with diverse natural resources. The resources are under progressive degradation. Poor socio-economic situation manifested in high poverty level of 52% and 78% food deficiency persists despite the presence of several CSOs working with GoK and IDAs. In the light of this, the st...
ABSTRACT The Telecommunications industry in Kenya is full of competition. The companies currently present include Safaricom Kenya Limited, Airtel Networks Kenya Limited, Telkom Kenya Limited (Orange), Essar Telcom Kenya (YU) and lately, Equity Bank Limited with the Equitel money. This study sought to evaluate the determinants of competitive advantage for firms within the Telecommunications industry in Kenya. The objectives of the study were to find out the effect of innovation on competitive...
TABLE OF CONTENTS -------·--·--- -~.· DECLrRATION ............................................................................................................. 2 iPPROVAL .................................................................................................................... 3 ACKNOVLEDGMENTS ............................................................. : ................................. 4 CH.APTER ONE ..............................................................................
Abstract Provision of food and beverage services to hotel guests complements accommodation for resident guests in hotels. Hospitality investors assume that a chef can easily be developed from the kitchen through apprentice and made to steer the kitchen operations to greater heights without necessarily undergoing formal training. With the fast changing culinary needs, chefs have become an integral component in determining the overall meal experience of guests and the achievement of kitchen op...
ABSTRACT Despite efforts by the UNESCO and CIPL in devoting attention to language endangerment and introducing the ‘Red Books’ that monitor the status of threatened languages, other nongovernmental organizations like the US based Terralingua focused on promoting linguistic diversity through biodiversity, CEL for identifying endangered languages in Kenya, the Kenyan government through MoE in promoting the use of L1s at lower primary and linguists like Joshua Fishman coming up with langua...
ABSTRACT School children, especially those found in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) stages to !earn through the use of martial. Leaming has been known to take place more through seeing than hearing. Many modem schools have understood this fact and are putting more emphasis on them. The study is therefore about the role of teaching and learning materials in facilitating learning. It will endeavor to investigate the stress out by both private and public ECDS to the acquisition and use of ...