ABSTRACT Globally, studies have shown that women’s participation in elective leadership positions is low. In Kenya, the Constitution of Kenya of 2010 provides for equal opportunities for both men and women in elective positions. However, in the general elections of 2013, no single woman was elected as a member of the County Assembly or National Assembly in Homa Bay Town and Rangwe Constituencies, Homa Bay County. Although other studies attribute non-election of women in political positions ...
ABSTRACT Gender equality is a concept that many feminist and sympathizers the world over have been trying to achieve over the past five decades. Various measures to bring about this new kind of concept have been put forward including legislation, mainstreaming, gender affirmative action just to mention a few. But despite all the efforts and resources employed in endeavouring to achieve it, gender equality remains fantasy. The case of Zimbabwe is no different… The issue of gender equality i...
Abstract The growing recognition of the need for humanities in medical colleges has opened discussion for the integration of medical humanities into the curriculum of medical schools. The paper discusses Nigerians’ place in the realization of the integration of medical humanities (MH) into the curriculum of medical students in Nigerian universities. The study was conducted by gathering data from six colleges of medicine located in the south western part of Nigeria. The curriculum of most m...
ABSTRACT The Local Believers Church hereinafter LBC is one of the new religious movements (Neremos) in Kenya whose origin and rapid spread is not only a matter of public concern but also her string of teachings that run contra to what is conventionally held by other Christian churches. Further, LBC is believed to draw most of her influence from one American Pentecostal preacher William Marrion Branham whose movement and teachings were largely considered by most mainstream churches as a cult a...
ABSTRACT Globally and in Kenya, Maternal Mortality Ratio remain high at 546/100,000 and 362/100,000 live births respectively. In Kenya, skilled birth attendants (SBA) are estimated at 62% and 68% in Nyatike. Factors influencing skilled birth attendants in still unknown in Nyatike. The specific objectives of this study were to assess the level of knowledge on safe motherhood, socio-demographic characteristics, health workers’ attitude, quality of skilled delivery services and association wit...
ABSTRACT A majority of the people living in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world are pastoralists whose livelihoods are dictated by the upkeep and size of their herds. During the dry season, the harsh environmental condition forces them to migrate in search of pasture and water. With limited access to water and competing rights to pasture, inter-community conflicts often arise particularly when one community crosses over to others‟ territory to share these valuable resources. This case...
ABSTRACT The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 93 million children around the world are living with moderate to severe disability of one kind or another. Although education is considered by the United Nations (UN) as a basic human right, implications of education policies on learners with disabilities on enrolment seem to have attracted limited attention. In Kenya, for instance, the National Special Needs Education Policy (NSNEP) is in place to ensure, among other thing...
ABSTRACT Despite the MOE efforts to provide safety standards and guidelines, educational institutions in Kenya had a long standing history of ghastly disasters. These led to damage of property, injuries and worst of all loss of precious lives, through incidents of fire and other risk situations. The purpose of this study was to establish factors influencing schools‟ compliance to safety standards guidelines in Kitui Central sub-county, Kitui County. The specific objectives of the study were...
ABSTRACT The Holy Bible has its major pillars in the traditions of the Jews, thus, it is a collection of books that have genres of oral literature. Though a lot of research has been done on the genres of oral literature, very little has been done on the intertextuality of the genres of oral literature in the Bible. This study intended to evaluate the genres of oral literature in selected books of the Bible so as to fill this gap. The research aimed at analyzing the interxtuality nature of ora...
ABSTRACT In parts of the developing countries, there is low access rate of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in primary education, despite support from the government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Malanga zone is rural based and has the highest number of OVC-4782 in Gem sub County, Siaya County. It also has the highest number of NGOs supporting OVCs compared to other zones-Nyawara, Kambare, Bar Kalare, Komuor, Sirembe yet inspite of the support to OVCs in Malanga Zone access ...
ABSTRACT Communication is the key ingredient for establishing and maintaining relationships between two or more parties. In order to find ways that will lead to healthy relationships in different fields and professions, communication has been one of the many fields that have been researched on severally. Due to the diversity of communication and the different media through which information is passed, most researchers have not been able to exactly customize these topics to fit some situation...
Abstract The consequences of heavy or ‘binge‘ drinking pose serious risks for drinkers, but also for those in the immediate environment. This study therefore, was to investigate whether alcohol dependency has any negative influences on the academic performance on those who depend on it using the following objectives: to establish the causes of alcohol dependency, to investigate the effects of alcohol dependency on academic performance and to find out the economic constraints incurred by s...
ABSTRACT Television soap operas could have dominated and become the most popular genre in the local television networks despite the presence of other genres in the Kenyan media. It’s possible that the growing rate of broken marriage in Kisumu city could be due to the way marriage and married couples are portrayed in soap operas. There has been a lot of studies on soap operas and the influence they have on their audience in general. However the perception of influence of the soap opera The L...
ABSTRACT This work argues the thesis that the adoption of Kierkegaard‟s notion of commitment can bring about a responsive and responsible leadership in human society. This means that, with the right commitment, the absence of responsive and responsible leadership in the polity can be laid to rest. Kierkegaard‟s ethical philosophy, which is embedded in his theory of stages, provides an insight into the analysis of the concept of commitment. The work is a critical study of the problem of co...
ABSTRACT Tuberculosis still remains one of the world’s deadliest curable disease. Emergence of HIV, multi-drug resistance (MDR), high prevalence of post-treatment tuberculosis are some of the major setbacks which now poses a major challenge to attainment of tuberculosis control programme targets of 70% detection of infectious tuberculosis and 80% cure rate of detected cases. Despite the availability of effective anti-tuberculosis and ant-retroviral (ART) drugs, high incidence rate of approx...