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Access to Clean Drinking Water and Diarrhea Occurrence among Children Under Five Years Old in Informal Urban Settlements: A Case Study of Korogocho, in Nairobi County, Kenya
(THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES, 2020)World Health Organisation (WHO) has quantified the occurrence of childhood Diarrhea as a consequence of poor access to clean drinking water. This is because the water in informal urban centers is highly contaminated due ... -
Access to Clean Drinking Water and Diarrhea Occurrence among Children Under Five Years Old in Informal Urban Settlements: A Case Study of Korogocho, in Nairobi County, Kenya
(THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES, 2020)World Health Organisation (WHO) has quantified the occurrence of childhood Diarrhea as a consequence of poor access to clean drinking water. This is because the water in informal urban centers is highly contaminated due ... -
Access to health information for persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya
(African Journal of Social Work, 11(4), 172-181., 2021)This study explores the effectiveness of media in promoting access to COVID-19 health information in Kenya. The focus will be on how persons with disabilities accessed COVID-19 information through television within the ... -
). Administration of Legal Issues in African Developmentfor Global Sustainability. the East African Journal of Lawand Ethics(EAJLE).
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 2020-04)Despite the evolution of legal systems in Africa, its development cannot be realized without the adoption of global practices relevant to the 21st-century complexities. Using data from Kenya, the objective of this paper ... -
Allure of Pentecostalism in Mainstream Churches in the Wake of the Commoditization of the Gospel
(International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, 2022)Commoditization of the Gospel and the rise of prosperity Gospel have altered the Christian dogma. Principles such as humility, poverty and solemnity have been replaced with opulence and charisma. Human suffering including ... -
Animal Metaphor in Gĩkũyũ
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2018)Animal metaphors are prevalent in many languages. Animals are closely related to the human beings and they provide a rich basis for the conceptualization of human beings and their activities. Using the cognitive linguistics ... -
Animal Metaphor in Gĩkũyũ
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2018)Animal metaphors are prevalent in many languages. Animals are closely related to the human beings and they provide a rich basis for the conceptualization of human beings and their activities. Using the cognitive linguistics ... -
ASSESSMENT OF RAINFALL VARIABILITY AND MAIZE CROP FARMING IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA
(International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch, 2023)Crop farming is crucial to the livelihoods of communities living in the rural areas of Kenya. The sector largely depends on climatic variables such as rainfall for optimum crop output. This article presents the analysis, ... -
ASSESSMENT OF RAINFALL VARIABILITY AND MAIZE CROP FARMING IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA
(International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch, 2023)Crop farming is crucial to the livelihoods of communities living in the rural areas of Kenya. The sector largely depends on climatic variables such as rainfall for optimum crop output. This article presents the analysis, ... -
Celebrity Endorsement: Television Advertisements and Sports Gambling Behavior among University Students in Kenya
(2023-02)Purpose: To establish the influence of Television’s celebrity endorsement advertisement technique on sports gambling behaviour among the university students in Kenya. Methodology: This study employed mixed method design. ... -
The centre and pathology: Postmodernist reading of madness in the oppressor in contemporary fiction
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-08)This study examines the pathological consequences of in-between identity on the members of the dominant group in polarized cosmopolitan settings in Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950). The study is a postmodernist reading ... -
Challenges Facing Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse in Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya
(2013-12)This article examines challenges child sexual abuse victims and their families experience in trying to access healthcare services and justice in Kenya. Child sexual abuse is a vice that shocks and traumatizes the victims ... -
Characterization of Small Scale Farmers’ Low Levels of Adoption to Crop Insurance as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Variability in Nyandarua County of Kenya
(Asian Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences, 2020)Kenya is one of the many countries in Sub Saharan Africa affected by climate variability and its related hazards due to changes in temperature and variations in rainfall in most parts of the country. The present study has ... -
Circumcision Contestation Among African Christians in the Advent of a Rejuvenation of African Cultural Practices
(2024): Circumcision among many African communities is a vital and common rite of passage. Traditionally the rite was performed on both male and female teenagers but with the coming of the Europeans and the conversion of ... -
Citizen Perceptions of the Governance of Projects in Kenya.
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Knowledge, 2018)This paper describes the citizen perceptions of the governance of projects in Kenya. The paper is based on the study of the process of citizen involvement on local government carried out in Elgeiyo Marakwet and Nandi ... -
Colonialism and Mimicry: A Literary Lens into Governance in Africa
(African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, 2022)In the recent past, scholars have delved into the challenges African countries face in establishing Western-style democracy, often overlooking the insights provided by literary works. Most political and social science ... -
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ON CRIME PREVENTION IN ISIOLO COUNTY, KENYA
(International Academic Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2024)Economic prosperity of any nation owes its growth to myriads of factors such as political, economic, environmental, and social. Crime has proved to be a major bottleneck to economic growth and development as it causes ... -
Conceptual Metaphors and Perception Verbs in GĩKũYũ
(International Journal of Linguistics, 2018)This paper examines the polysemy that exists in the semantic field of perception verbs in Gĩkũyũ which is a Bantu Language of the Niger – Congo group spoken in Kenya. These verbs do not only convey the meanings that are ... -
Conceptual Metaphors and Perception Verbs in GĩKũYũ
(International Journal of Linguistics, 2018)This paper examines the polysemy that exists in the semantic field of perception verbs in Gĩkũyũ which is a Bantu Language of the Niger – Congo group spoken in Kenya. These verbs do not only convey the meanings that are ... -
A Concise History of the Colonial State and Gender Inequality in Sports in Kenya
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS), 2024)The purpose of this article is to provide a concise history of gender dynamics in sports during the colonia period in Kenya. The interests of the state have structured issues of inclusion in Kenyan sports. Historically, ...
