School of Humanities and Social Sciences (JA): Recent submissions

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Is geropsychology ‘forever young’ on the mother continent? Addressing the limited research on psychology of aging in Africa

Chukwuorji, John Bosco C.; Thuku, Pauline; Cassimjee, Nafisa; Mbuthia, Kezia W.; Olawa, Babatola D. (Oxford University Press, 2023-10-20)

Objectives: Our paper highlights areas of interest to psychologists studying aging in Africa and what has already been learned about aspects of psychological aging from studies done in the African context. We also considered ...
Contributions of sexual and reproductive health knowledge to adolescent pregnancies among students in Kitui township, Kitui County

Otsyula, Yvonne; Wekesa, Eliud; Moywaywa, Charles K. (Macrothink Institute, 2023-07)

Teenagers hold the future of society in terms of the provision of societal functions differentiated by their gender roles and parity. Consequently, the excellence of teenagers places society in a better sustaining status. ...
Menstrual knowledge status among school going girls in Mulundi sub-location, Kitui County

Kalio, Mercy M.; Kioli, Felix N.; Wanjala, Kennedy B. (Macrothink Institute, 2022-07)

Menstruation is part of female human health that signifies the transition from childhood to adulthood. Correct menstrual knowledge entails having accurate knowledge of physiological changes, which accompanies body changes. ...
Leveraging cloud computing for enhanced academic library services in Kenya: Opportunities, challenges, and best practices

Guchacha, Joseph T. (2023-07)

This literature review paper examines the opportunities, challenges, and best practices associated with leveraging cloud computing for enhanced academic library services in Kenya. Academic libraries in Kenya have realized ...
The Nairobi castaways: novelistic representations of slum dwellers

Yenjela, Wafula (IFRA - Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique, 2023)

This article is a critique of Nairobi city’s socio-political histories as portrayed in Kenyan literary works of the 1970s, focusing on Mwangi Gicheru’s Across the Bridge (1979), Charles Mangua’s Son of Woman (1971), Meja ...
Ulinganishi wa msamiati baina ya Kikamba, Kigweno na Chasu: tathmini ya nadhariatete ya ndugu na ndugu wa mbali

Abadalah, Fatuma; Ngesu, Sarah N. M.; Mrikaria, George Y. (2023-05)

Makala haya yanachunguza kiulinganishaji msamiati wa lugha tatu za Kibantu, mbili zinazungumzwa nchini Tanzania na lahaja mbili za Kikamba zinazozungumzwa nchini Kenya. Lengo la Makala haya ni kutathmini maoni ya Massamba ...
Tafsiri kama nyenzo ya kutandawaza utamaduni wa mswahili: mfano wa Siku Jema (1996) na A Good Day (2019)

Ngesu, Sarah N. M.; Mrikaria, George (University of Dar es Salaam, 2022)

Lengo la makala hii ni kujadili mchango wa tafsiri katika kutandawaza utamaduni wa Mswahili kwa kuangazia riwaya ya A Good Day (Walibora, 2019) kama tafsiri ya riwaya ya Siku Njema (Walibora, 1996) iliyotafsiriwa na Dorothy ...
The struggle for political and constitutional reforms in the post-independence Kenya: the Nairobi Asians in a perspective

Moywaywa, Charles K.; Nyagaka, Edwin O. (2023-03)

This paper examines the contributions of Asians from Nairobi in the struggle for political and constitutional reforms in Kenya in the post-independence period. The paper is anchored on a liberal democratic theoretical ...
Alcohol and drug abuse in fragmenting social identities among youths: Analysis of selected Kenyan fiction

Oduor, Vincent O.; Omuteche, Jairus; Yenjela, Wafula (Royallite Global, 2022-09)

This study examines the problems of excessive drug abuse and addiction among the Kenyan youths as represented in young adult fiction written by Kenyans. The study is motivated by works of a few popular fiction ...
Popular culture, contemporary trends and social identities in Kenyan youth fiction

Oduor, Vincent O.; Omuteche, Jairus; Yenjela, Wafula (Royallite Global, 2022-10)

This article examines the extent to which contemporary popular cultural trends influence the formation of social identities among the youth. In light of this, the study addresses the question of ...
Changamoto za tafsiri tenge katika ufundishaji wa Kiswahili katika shule za sekondari jijini Kampala

Mrikaria, George; Ngesu, Sarah N. M. (2022-06)

Makala haya yameonyeshakwambamatumizi ya tafsiri hususanuteuzi wa mikakati ya tafsiri katikaufundishaji wa lugha kama nyenzo ya kurahisisha mawasiliano hukabiliwa na changamoto mbalimbali. Data zilikusanywa kupitia ...
Perceptions about the factors that influence public participation in rural Kenya

Mwanzia, Sylvia N.; Maithya, Harrison M.; Mwania, Jonathan M. (2022-05)

The aim of this study was to establish the factors influencing participation of the public in development projects in Wote-Nziu ward in the context of a devolved governance system. The objectives of the study were to ...
Tafsiri kama nyenzo ya ufundishaji na ujifunzaji wa lugha ya kigeni: mfano wa Kiswahili nchini Uganda

Ngesu, Sarah N. M.; Mrikaria, George Y. (Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2021)

Ufundishaji wa Kiswahili katika shule za sekondari nchini Uganda unachukua mwelekeo wa ufundishaji wa lugha ya kigeni kwa sababu wajifunzaji hawapati ingizo kutoka katika jamii. Lengo la makala hii ni kuchunguza tafsiri ...
The phenomenon of school fires in Kenyan public secondary schools: blame-games, scape-goats and the real culprits

Moywaywa, Charles K. (2022-02)

In any country, the task of caring and moulding the behavior of the youth requires a partnership between parents, teachers and the government. In Kenya, children in public secondary schools are ofte considered to be under ...
Tathmini ya tafsiri za matini zenye asili ya kigeni katika gazeti la Taifa Leo nchini Kenya

Ngesu, Sarah N. M.; Osore, Miriam K. (Baraza la Kiswahili la Zanzibar, 2018)

Lengo la makala hii ni kubainisha, kuchanganua na kutathmini vepengele vya matini vilivyootafsiriwa kutoka Kiingereza kwenda Kiswahili katika gazeti la Taifa Leo nchini Kenya.
World wars and trauma: Lake Victoria basin women novelists’ reflections

Yenjela, Wafula (National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2022-01)

This article reads Kenyan novels that catalogue the trauma of the Luo veterans of World War I and II. The focus is on Grace Ogot’s The Promised Land (1966), Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source (1994), Marjorie Macgoye’s ...
Asian-led civil societies domiciled in Nairobi city and the struggle for political and constitutional reforms in post-independent Kenya

Moywaywa, Charles K.; Nyagaka, Edwin O. (2021-12)

This paper examines the contributions of Asian led-civil societies domiciled in Nairobi city in the struggle for political and constitutional reforms in Kenya in the post-independence period. This paper is anchored on ...
Effect of mûgûka chewing by the youth on criminal activities in Kibwezi West Sub-county

Julius, Justin M.; Maithya, Harrison M.; Mwania, Jonathan M. (2021-11)

One of the drugs that is widely abused by the youth in Kenya is mûgûka. National Council Against Drug Abuse reports that approximately 100,000 people in Makueni County consume muguka 92% of whom are youth. Despite this ...
Towards a reconstruction of masculinity: A Kenyan Maasai perspective

Mukasa, Antony; Kinanga, Charles (2021-09)

This paper is an investigation on the need fora reconstruction of masculinity among the indigenous African communities.The paper argues that there is an apparent disconnect between traditional and modern perspectives on ...
Mtagusano na maafikiano ya lugha: uchunguzi kifani wa lugha za Kikamba na Kitharaka

Ngesu, Sarah N. M. (Kiswahili Development Limited, 2019-12)

Language change is inevitable, continuous and natural. Languages are constantly changing and there are various reasons as to why languages change. Some of the factors that lead to language change are language contact and ...

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