This study examined contemporary African cinema narratives with a view to guiding a socio-ideological reading of the narratives. Specifically, it has drawn connections between the film’s diegesis and the non-diegetic space to which the film addresses. The study addressed three key issues; social and ideological narratives, class struggles, and pluralism of narrative voices. The films analyzed were selected from East and West Africa. From West Africa, the study analyzed Kwaw Ansah’s Love B...
ABSTRACT Including children with hearing impairment in mainstream schools has generated a lot of debate across the globe with many campaigning for the rights of these children to be educated separately in special schools in which they can access information through sign Language. Pupils with hearing impairment have been found to lag behind in academics as compared to the visually and physically impaired on account of their problems in communication, socialization, curriculum adaptation, modi...
New technological advancements and innovations are a challenge to languages and especially so to African languages. New terminologies referred to as neologism thus become necessary. This research looks at the morphological structures and classification of neologisms in the Gĩkǔyǔ language. The study will show how innovatively languages deal with new terms and refute the argumentation that African languages are not developed enough to cater for these concepts. The study has focused its...
Physical activity (PA) is recognized as an important determinant for chronic lifestyle diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) PA is one of the major underlying causes of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) leading to significant global burden of death, disease and disability among children and adults. There are many factors that influence PA among school children, including physical fitness and motor skill development. Health-related physical fitness includes cardio-resp...
ABSTRACT Leadership style can lead to the achievement or downfall of the business. The banking industry in Kenya has experienced first rate modifications introduced about via globalization, liberalization, intense competition amongst competitors, converting regulatory hints, generation, and more stressful clients. Those adjustments within the dynamic enterprise environment require leadership which can permit each the people and the enterprise to adapt and achieve success. The maximum commonp...
ABSTRACT Organizations and institutions the world over have resorted to supervision in ensuring employee effectiveness and better returns in performance and productivity. Police work is regarded as the interface between any government and the local populace, which follows structurally entrenched chain of command as stipulated in the Service Standing Orders (SSOs). Supervision of officers in the performance of duty ensures that they undertake their responsibilities with decorum while displayi...
ABSTRACT Forests enhance conservation of the environment, biodiversity, water, and soil resources while significantly contributing to the livelihoods of forest adjacent communities. Under the Kenya's new Forest Act (2005), community participation is provided for through formation of Community Forest Associations (CFAs). Past studies have shown how major CFAs in Kenya operate and the challenges they face. However, factors determining household decision to join CFA and the CFAs' capacities to ...
ABSTRACT In today’s dynamic and turbulent business environment where change is the only constant, SACCO’s are finding it hard to perform financially and survive amidst cut throat competition in the financial sector. In Kenya’s financial landscape where the SACCOs play an important role in financial intermediation with a focus on personal development and growth of SMEs, their fundamental role has continued to diminish due to ever growing competition in this sector. A firm can apply the ...
ABSTRACT The origin of supervision goes back to the year 1910 when a director of education was appointed for the Kenyan protectorate. The director had legal duties of organizing, supervision and inspection of protectorate schools. In 1964, the Ominde commission recommended careful selection of education supervisors. In 2002, school inspectorate department changed to quality assurance and standards and principals of schools were also empowered to do instruction supervision in their schools. T...
ABSTRACT Physical Education provides pupils with necessary attitude, knowledge and skills so as to perform a variety of physical activities and maintain physical fitness. This study aimed at assessing the attitude (Cognitive and Affective domains) and practice of primary school pupils, teachers and head teachers in Physical Education (PE) in Kiambu County. Independent variables for the study were: teachers, pupils, private and public primary schools while the dependent variable was attitude ...
The study offers a reading on how silence has been presented as a strategy for trauma enunciation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s selected novels: Paradise (1994) and Desertion (2005). It also explores how migration and racial differences have led to the muteness of the characters. This is in order to fill the critical lacuna that exists in the available scholarship on the author. As of now he has written eight novels but the study has focused on two of them because of their poignant deployment...
ABSTRACT Competitive advantage is of the goals as to why firms exist in a any given industry. However, it is not easy for the firm to gain competitive advantage as there are turbulences in the environment with high levels of competition in different industries. The manufacturing sector is one such competitive industry that require firms to constantly adopt different strategies to remain viable. Therefore, the current study sought to determine the effect of corporate social responsibility str...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research study was to investigate and analyse the influence of instructional strategies and learning environment used by lecturers on academic achievement of students with hearing impairments in selected public universities. The objectives of the study were: establish support services in the learning environment for students with hearing impairment, identify the teaching methods used by lecturers to teach students with hearing impairments, identify the resource ...
This study set out to examine the protracted nature of the Mt. Elgon conflict and the motivations driving it. The thesis of the study was that a multi-causal analysis of protracted conflicts provides a basis for a more comprehensive approach toconflict management and conflict transformation. The main objective of the study was to find out what has fueled and sustained the conflict in Mt. Elgon region. This is because the Mt. Elgon conflict has proven difficult to bring to an end. The choi...
Road traffic congestion is a major issue of concern owing to its impact to the lives of people, the economy and the environment at large. Traffic congestion is a problem of the modern society that has come with urbanization. It has been predicted that the problem will get worse if mechanisms and best strategies are not put in place in time to manage it. In the City of Nairobi, Kenya, studies and mechanisms that havebeen undertaken have not solved the problem of road congestion whereby it h...