ABSTRACT The study is about the role of the media in promoting financial literacy in Uganda taking New Vision as the case study. The study was guided by the following questions- What are causes of financial literacy among people in Uganda? What are the solutions put forward to reduce financial literacy in Uganda? Describe the different strategies put forward to fight financial literacy in Uganda. What are the roles of the media in promoting financial literacy in Uganda? The population under s...
ABSTRACT This study set out to investigate cultural trends which influence parliamentary elections in Webuye Constituency, Kenya. Webuye Constituency has had four elected MPs, since its creation in 1987, .out of whom three hail from among the Bukusu which is the dominant sub-ethnic group in the constituency and one from among the Tachoni which is one of the minority sub-ethnic groups in Webuye constituency. The fact that Alfred Sambu, a Tachoni, beat Musikari Kombo, a Bukusu (w~o was not onl...
ABSTRACT Hotel industry business in the past evidence has shown that Total Quality Management programs have failed because the success factors were not in place. In order for hotel business to increase performance, the critical success factors of Total Quality Management should be implemented well. These factors appear to be compatible with successful Total Quality Management implementation programs in the hotel industry. They represent strategic elements, people involvement, emphasis on com...
ABSTRACT The research topic was chosen because the media do not believe that preserving culture is part and parcel of the media and can enhance people’s understanding of culture and its values. The research examined the role played by the broadcast media in preserving culture in Uganda. This is because cultural values had deteriorated and WBS a luganda speaking station was chosen because it that covers almost the biggest percentage of the country. Specific objectives were used to examine th...
ABSTRACT The current dynamic working environment and stiff competition in the market necessitates that organization adopt flexible, adaptive and competitive techniques to be able to adjust to dynamism in market conditions Employees are the most key asset in any organization and its prospect success depends on more involvement of their employees to stir creativity and innovation. Involving employees can improve the organization in many ways like in creativity, changes in behaviour at work, a...
ABSTRACT A MORPHOSYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF A REGIONAL VARIETY OF KISWAHILI SPOKEN IN KAKAMEGA COUNTY: A VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH. By LIKUYANI ERICK MUHATI Kiswahili has historically been used as a lingua franca since pre-colonial times in Kenya. The attainment of independence over fifty one years ago saw the political recognition of Kiswahili as a national language. This has resulted in the progressive enhancement in status of Kiswahili, both as a compulsory examinable subject and l...
ABSTRACT With the rapidly increasing population and the associated decline in landholding sizes, the government of Kenya has realized that agricultural extensification is no longer possible for most parts of the country. Consequently, development and promotion of land-augmenting technologies such as inorganic fertilizers and improved seeds have been pursued as the most viable alternatives towards increasing agricultural productivity. However, adoption of farm technologies in the country rem...
ABSTRACT The research was concerned with some factors affecting School Administration under Free Primary Education in Kariobangi Location in Embakasi Division, Nairobi East District. The study identified the factors, their impacts and the measures of solving them. Using a cross-sectional survey research design, the samples employed in the study were got from the F.P.E Schools. The researcher made use of the questionnaire technique with the aid of focus group discussions to collect data. The ...
ABSTRACT Prisoners re-entry into the society has emerged as a lens through which to view the numerous issues related to the process of prisoner incarceration, release and subsequent failure or success on the outside world. There is, therefore, need to look into the influence prison education has on recidivism, with the aim of improving the quality of education for inmates in terms of physical facilities, manpower requirements and funding. The objectives of the study were: to establish the in...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to investigate the history, practices and transformation of the Akurinu movement, a religious group that emerged in Kandara sub-County, Murang’a County in Central Kenya in the 1920s. Its emergence was as a response to the socio-economic, political, and religio-cultural conflict caused by British colonial administration and the teachings of western Christian Missionaries in Gikuyu land. In the colonial period the Akurinu movement became withdrawn from the society a...
ABSTRACT The media in Kampala and Uganda as a whole, through its cardinal roles of informing and disseminating knowledge, can be of help to the government campaign of attracting foreign investors in Kampala. This campaign is one of the various government efforts to push economic development in the country. The media can go a long way in doing this, by informing people about the vanous government programs, the investor incentives put in place by government such as 'free' land, power, che...
ABSTRACT Cheating in examination is a very bad habit that has disadvantages for all the parties involved. The student, teacher, the school and even the examination council all stand to lose when students cheat in examinations. Examination irregularities in Kenya have been found noted at every release of the KCSE results and few measures have been put in place to curb the vice. The underlying objective of this study was to investigate into the Nature and causes of National Examinations irregul...
ABSTRACT African traditional theatre is caught up within the vortex of Western inferiorization, the need for documentation, and a conflict of opinions between African dramatic scholars (the evolutionists and the relativists). The indigenous festival traditions in Africa have been described by Finnegan (1970) as ‘quasi-dramatic’ and they lack the dramatic structure of the West. This view by evolutionists is against that of the relativists who claim that traditional festivals in Africa are...
ABSTRACT The study was mainly to examine how free food provision at school impacts on the academic performance of pupils in KAKUZI division of Thika East district. The study was intended to answer the following research questions: How is the accessibility of free food by the pupils? How does free school feeding affect pupils' attendance at school? And how does class attendance affect pupil performance in class? The methods used questionnaires, interviews, observation and review of literature...
ABSTRACT Service delivery and decentralization are vital for effective operations of local governments. The significant weights are based on the important prospects that are defined in Malakal County service delivery process. However the research provides an important milestone that help to establish a well guided understanding of weakness and strengths in decentralization policies and process and how, if any might results in, better service delivery for stockholders which increase the state�...