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EFFECTS OF TERRORISM NEWS ON READERS OF NEWSPAPERS: A CASE STUDY OF TAIFALEO NEWSPAPER OF KENYA

Silas Odhiambo Owala , Sangai Mohochi , Florence Indede (2013)

The media plays an important role in giving the masses information about terrorism. Many developing countries have not in the past had many acts of terrorism that originated directly from those countries and for a long ...
LITERARY COMMITMENT IN BESSIE HEAD’S MARU

Elizabeth A. Odhiambo1, . Jack Ogembo, . Kitche Magak3 (2013)

This was a study of Bessie Head’s literary commitment. The objective of the study was to interrogate the extent to which the writer is committed as a woman and as a Third World person based on the text Maru. The study ...
The Manipulation of Kenyan Television Viewers through the Modes of Signification in Television Advertisements

Kodak, Benard; Prof. Matu, Peter M.; Dr. Oketch, Omondi (HR MARS Exploring Intellectual capital, 2013-04)

Television advertisements come in multi-modes, that is, they use verbal and visual modes of signification. This poses a challenge in that in multimodal discourses, television viewers are faced with the changing phenomena ...
Court Interpreters View of Language Use in Subordinate Courts in Nyanza Province, Kenya

Odhiambo, Kenneth; Kavulani, Claris Kasamba; Matu, Peter Maina (2013-06)

This paper presents the views of the court interpreters about language use in courts in Kenya. Kenya is a multilingual country with over 42 languages. In such a heterogeneous society, language issues in official communication ...
Knowledge, Attitude and Perceptions of Village Residents on the Health Risks Posed by Kadhodeki Dumpsite in Nairobi, Kenya.

J.M., NJAGI; A.M, IRERI; E.N.M, NJAGI; D., AKUNGA (researchgate, 2013-07)

This study sought to assess the knowledge, attitude and perceptions of the residents of Kadhodeki village on the health risks posed by the Kadhodeki dumpsite. Using households as units of sampling, a descriptive cross ...
The Impact of Consecutive Interpreting on Church ermons: A Study of English to Kamba Interpretation in Machakos town, Kenya

Odhiambo, Kenneth (http://dx.doi.org/, 2013-08)

This paper examines consecutive interpreting in Pentecostal church sermons. Interpreting is a major communication skill used in communication process in society. It is used in Pentecostal churches as a strategy to reach ...
Advocacy for Monitoring and Evaluation in Community Development Projects in Africa

Maithya, Paul M (2014)

Much of retrospection and reassessment of past undertakings and activities is necessary so to gain confidence in future tasks and ensure success. Review is mandatory and important in development projects. Many projects ...
Language Communication And Marketing: Contextualising the Rise of Sheng’ Language in Advertising Platforms in Kenya

Wanyama, Leonard Lussac (2014)

Commercial advertisers have turned to an extensive use of Sheng’ to market their products. The entrepreneurial class in Kenya has now woken up to the economic advantages that Sheng’ presents as the language of the ...
Role of Knowledge Management in the Enhancement of Performance of Universities in Kenya: A Survey of Satellite Campuses in Western Kenya Region

Dinnah Kemunto Mogire; Dr. Walter Bichanga Okibo; Tabitha Sewe (2014)

Kenya has witnessed a rapid expansion of university education denoted by proliferation of many satellite campuses. Dominating discussions concerning growth and expansion of university education has been an overriding concern ...
Responsiveness to HIV education and VCT services among Kenyan rural women: a community-based survey

Karau PB; Winnie MS; Geoffrey M; Mwenda M (2014)

Abstract Uptake of VCT and other HIV prevention strategies among rural African women is affected by various socio-cultural and economic factors which need elucidation. Our aim was to establish the responsiveness to HIV ...
Kenya’s Social Development Proposals and Challenges: Review of Kenya Vision 2030 First Medium-Term Plan, 2008-2012

Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa; Joseph Akuma Misati (2014)

Kenya faces several development challenges including poverty, disease, unemployment, negative civic engagement among others. The development bottlenecks worsened following the introduction of the IMF/World Bank-propelled ...
Social Protection for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Kenya: Initiatives, Opportunities and Challenges

Joseph Misati Akuma (2014)

HIV/AIDS, conflicts and other crises have swelled the number of OVC’s in sub - Saharan Africa, thereby threatening the realization of the Millennium Development Goals in the areas of Education, Health, Nutrition, and Poverty ...
Phonological Processes In Nouns across Maasai Dialects

Alexander Meitamei, Furaha Chai , James Ogola Onyango (2014)

Abstract: Maasai language has 22 dialects whose noun parallel varies phonologically. This short work describes the phonological processes causing the variation across the dialects of this language. Maasai noun synonyms ...
Corrective Feedback in English Language Teaching and Learning: Which Way to Go?

Ruth Abaya (2014)

The rise in popularity of the communicative approach in language teaching since the late 1970s primarily focusing on language for meaningful interaction and for accomplishing tasks rather than on learning rules has intensified ...
Filming violence in Kenya: From the everyday to the spectacular in Hillary Ng’weno’s documentaries

Okong’o, Joseph Basil and Waliaula, Solomon (2014)

Hillary Ng’weno’s documentary series The Making of a Nation is a reconstruction of significant events in the development of Kenya from colonialism to post-independence. The authorial vision underlines the role of violence ...
Gender Disparities in Water Resource Management Projects in Njoro Sub-County, Kenya

Wambu, Charles; Kindiki, Moses (International Journal of Social Science Studies, RedFame, 2014-11)

Gender disparities are of major concern, in water resources management because men and women play different roles and have different rights on water usage and it is important to take in account the interest of both genders ...
Colonialism and the Severity of Famines and Food Shortages in Kenya: The Case of the Abagusii of Western Kenya, 1890-1919

Prof. Omwoyo, Samson Moenga (African Journal of Educational and Social Science Research, 2015)

Pre-colonial food shortages in Kenya, and indeed in Africa were not uncommon as their causes ranged from extreme environmental factors such as drought. inter- and intra-ethnic wars, and invasion of locusts and numerous ...
Visual Rhetoric: A Pragma-Linguistic Analysis of Kenyan Political Editorial Cartoons in the Daily Nation Newspaper

Khadohi, Bonface Isalambo (2015)

This paper aims at analyzing rhetorical pragma-linguistic features used in political editorial cartoons of Kenyan newspapers in the portrayal of their political leaders and communication of political issues. The study ...
Socio-Cultural and Family Change in Africa: Implications for Adolescent Socialization in Kisii County, South Western, Kenya

Misati, Joseph Akuma (IFRA Nairobi, 2015)

This paper focuses on the individual and institutional responses to the changing cultural landscape in rural south western Kenya. These changes result not only from new conditions in worldwide economic, political and cultural ...
Media Control in Kenya: The State of Broadcasting under the New Kenya Information and Communication Act of 2013

Wanyama, Leonard Lussac (2015)

This paper examines the status of broadcast media in Kenya under the new information and communication law. Two objectives are used to develop the thesis of the paper; the operational status of broadcast media in Kenya over ...

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