ABSTRACT The attainment of a fully integrated East African region through the East African Community is yet to be realised. This is because most of the agreements pertaining integration are yet to be fully implemented while some are way past their implementation deadline. The East Africa Common Market Protocol, for instance, came into force in July 2010 after being ratified by member states. However, its practical implementation is considered a process that must take place over time since to-...
ABSTRACT The use of herbs for treatment and management of oral diseases is practiced in the developing countries including Kenya. The herbs are used in form of powders, pastes, saps, chewing sticks and seeds. They are sold in Nairobi along streets and open markets with claims of healing all oral diseases. However, safety issues in terms of microbial contaminants, levels of mineral elements profiles, toxicity, phytochemical composition and antimicrobial properties of the herbal materials in th...
ABSTRACT Untreated wastewater contains pharmaceutical compounds and heavy metals harmful to human health and the environment. People get access to untreated water through broken sewer pipes, blocked manholes and direct disposal into rivers. One such river is the Ngong River which passes through Nairobi County including Njiru and Ruai. People use untreated wastewater for growing of vegetables and washing cars. Soils and vegetables grown or irrigated with untreated wastewater may contain high l...
ABSTRACT Complex decision making processes require a more informed citizenry that arrives at a mutually agreed upon decision or at least one by which all parties can abide. This calls for public engagement in planning activities. The central problem of this study is the need to know the determinants of methodology used to engage the public in planning public participation in Bomet County. Studies indicated that participation in planning activities is affected by methodology used. This enthuse...
ABSTRACT Significant achievements have been made by feminists in challenging direct linguistic sexism by suggesting progressive and alternative ways language can be used to positively represent women. However, this has not hindered sexist individuals from continuing with their discrimination against women. They have come up with ways of strategically drawing on language to indirectly do so. The purpose of this study was to investigate attitude among Ekegusii radio listeners towards indirect l...
ABSTRACT Many scholars, for example Kodaly, Dalcroze and Campbell would argue for the important role of aural musicianship in Music Education. One of the purposes of Music Education is the creation of an environment in which the human potential is nurtured to bring forth and understand a variety of musical experiences. Music is a phenomenon that is experienced through the ear so the basis of all instructional programmes should be the cultivation of an acute musical ear, which is developed whe...
ABSTRACT Themes and styles are two aspects that complement each other in poetry. This reseach aims to show how these two aspects manifest themselves in selected collections of children’s Kiswahili poetry. To accomplish this, the reseacher utilized purposive sumpling to select the verses and stanzas that elicit various themes from selected anthologies. These anthlogies are, Utenzi wa Haki za Watoto (Abbas, 2003) and Mashairi Bulbul (Ahmed, 2010). The specific objectives of the reseach are: T...
ABSTRACT The purpose for this study was to analyze the politeness strategies used by teachers in the school staffroom in Kirinyaga County. The objectives were; to determine the strategies of politeness employed by teachers in their interactions, to analyze how the sociological factors such as age, gender, power, rank and social distance influence politeness strategies used by teachers and to determine how the politeness strategies affect interactions among teachers in Kirinyaga County. ...
ABSTRACT The main objective of music education is enhancement of students’ musical creativity. However, over the last six years (2012 to 2017) there has been a declining trend in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education music performance. This is compounded with consistent underachievement in prime creative areas like composition, aural and harmony, which signifies a decline in musical creativity among students. Although studies have associated psychological factors with musical creativ...
ABSTRACT In learning, persons ascribe the causes of their success or failure to factors such as ability, effort, difficulty of the test or luck. Their motivation for similar learning tasks depends not only on whether they experienced success or failure but also on the particular factors to which they attribute their failure or success. The purpose of the study was to compare teachers’ and students’ attributions regarding mathematics achievements in a Kenyan secondary school. The study als...
Abstract This project report describes a study that was undertaken to find out evidence of knowledge in information literacy, skills and practices if any in the county government environment in Kenya. It also investigates the connection between acquired literacy skills and their influences on service delivery, particularly with respect the county government office as the work place. A case study method was employed; data collection involved the administration of questionnaires to selected cou...
ABSTRACT The Purpose of this research was to investigate academic impediments students with visual impairments encounter in the colleges of the University of Rwanda. This study addressed the following objectives: the suitability of teaching methods used in colleges of the university of Rwanda to accommodate students with Visual Impairment; lectures ability to adapt to the learning/teaching resources available in public colleges to suit academic needs of students with visual impairments;...
ABSTRACT This study investigated construction of ethnic violence through land and politics in Molo Constituency, Nakuru county, Kenya from the year 1990 to 2015. The Division is inhabited by several ethnic groups although the Agikuyu, the Kipsigis (a sub-group of the larger Kalenjin) and the Abagusii are the most populous. Since the introduction of multiparty in 1991, politics has been the major cause of ethnic violence in the area. The study was guided by four objectives; establish land use ...
ABSTRACT Concern about global warming has led to renewed interest in the more sustainable use of natural fibres. Among the natural fibres, silk indeed commands considerable respect. Silk is a proteinaceous polymer secretion in the form of a cocoon, consisting of a continuous filament. Although it has been in use for centuries worldwide, Bombyx mori silk is one of the least researched fibre in Kenya. It has many unique physical advantages and properties which make it the highest priced natural...
ABSTRACT This study examined the transformation of the culture of widow guardianship among the Luo of Homa Bay County from 1920 to 2014.The study was guided by four objectives namely: to interrogate the importance of widow guardianship in Luo society, examine the extent to which colonialism and missionary activities affected the practice, analyze how the culture has been practiced in the post-colonial period among the Luo and investigate the extent to which it has been transformed in the cont...