ABSTRACT Assessing staff performance is a key aspect of personal appraisal in any organization. It is not unusual to find staff that work and perform at the or close to the required level. It is more common to find employees who have issues which make them not to perform to expectation. Despite the importance of nutrition care in patients’ management, health sector strategic and investment plan show that there is a shortage of nutritionists across the country with patients-nutritionists rat...
ABSTRACT The socio-cultural patterns of the twenty first-century have increased people‘s mobility across the planet. The cultural complexities and interactions that these combined factors generate seem to foster an emerging transcultural orientation. Literature is a mirror of the society and these patterns have not eluded literary writers. Both physical and metaphoric manifestations of dislocation exist in literary works. By way of characterisation and manipulation of a variety of stylistic...
Abstract The role that the indigenous systems of governance in Africa play towards solving some of the social, political and economic problems cannot be overlooked. Contrary to the popular opinion suggesting that African indigenous approaches to conflict resolution are archaic and outmoded, this essay emphasizes the need to rethink the relevance of consensus as a sine qua non basis for conflict resolution in Zimbabwe. Here, consensus is described as a long-established form of compromise that ...
ABSTRACT The study analyzed the discursive constructions of masculine identities in newspapers‟ pullout magazines in Kenya. It examined if there was a disconnect between the way Kenya‟s mainstream newspapers‟ pullout magazines constructed masculinity and the way the readers of these magazines constructed it. The objectives of the study were: to identify and describe the types of masculine identities that are constructed by lifestyle magazines and determine how these magazines justify or...
ABSTRACT Political interviews have been used as genres for dissemination of political information. The way they are presented is a subject of concern as they are thought to be causing division among the Kenyan audience along political party and hence ethnic lines. The purpose of this study is to look at the discursive practices in political news interviews and the interpretation they are given by the audience that may lead to ethnic polarization. The main objective of this study was to analyz...
ABSTRACT Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are not simply a health issue but a substantial threat to security and socioeconomic development, imposing a heavy burden on families, communities, economies and governments. HIV and AIDS affect people mainly in their prime ages, between 15 and 49 years. The majority of the Kenya Police are under 45 years and falls in the most sexually active years. In Kenya, 75% of all Police deaths in 1999 were attrib...
ABSTRACT The human quest for harmony of man is the quest for “conflict Resolution”. African people understand conflict in the life of a community of both the living and the living dead. The study is about an Integrated Luo-Maasai Traditional Religious Model to Conflict Resolution: A Case Study of Ogwedhi-Sigawa, Kenya. The study concentrated on developing an integrated LM traditional conflict resolution model to conflict resolution. The general objective of the research was to investigate...
IKISIRI Fasihi ni kioo cha jamii. Fasihi imekuwepo tangu jadi. Fasihi hunuia kufunza mada kuu katika jamii kama vile; mila, itikadi, dini, miiko, imani, matambiko, tamaduni za kale, utawala na kadhalika. Mambo haya yana nguvu mahsusi katika jamii. Fasihi kama katiba yoyote ile, huelimisha, huhifadhi tamaduni na pia kuburudisha. Utafiti huu ulilenga kuchunguza na kutathmini nafasi na athari ya kiongozi wa kike katika tamthilia teule za Kiswahili. Tamthilia ikiwa utanzu mmojawapo wa fasihi andi...
ABSTRACT This study intended to investigate the impact of photo manipulation which have become popular among young people on credibility of Facebook messages. We had identified the gap in the previous studies which had focused much on the credibility of texts rather than images on the Facebook site. After thorough literature review we identified that there were no previous research done connecting photo manipulation and credibility of those messages when they are uploaded on Facebook in the p...
vii ABSTRACT Since the 2007/008 Post-Election Violence (PEV),media coverage on political conflict has remained a complex yet intriguing issue to unbridle more especially on the Kenyan peace-building landscape .By and large, it has proved to be an elusive concept, globally, continentally, regionally, transnationally and locally. Many scholars have written on the effects media has on conflict situations in Africa particularly on how media fuels conflict. However, the literature on conflict and ...
ABSTRACT Environmental degradation and loss of resources that requires conservation is a pressing developmental issue. The scope of study Public participation is emphasized as a factor by Public participation bill 2018 and remains a critical determinant in environmental conservation in Kakamega County to safeguard the environment against further degradation The overall objective of the study was to evaluate the contribution of public participation in environmental conservation .The specific o...
ABSTRACT Death is a very heavy and an emotional subject. Depiction of death in various genre of literature is vast and varied. In poetry, death is depicted in a unique language which draws attention and touches the feelings of the audience. Poetry uses short form of language and rhythimic pattern which attracts and holds the attention of the audience during performance through singing, reading and recitation. Several studies on the aspect of death in Swahili poetry have been on dirges while i...
Abstract With the ever increasing number of disasters, personality disorders are inevitable. Personality disorders manifest in at least ten different ways, and can usually be diagnosed and managed through psychotherapeutic interventions. The prevalence of these disorders among undergraduate students and the degree to which counselling therapies offered in universities are able to address them is an information gap this study set out to fill. The main objective of the study was therefore to ev...
ABSTRACT The impact of HIV infection on progesterone, systemic cytokines, and lymphocyte levels in advancing pregnancy remains unclear despite the reported abortions among HIV-infected women. Thus, the main objective of this study was to determine and compare the profiles of progesterone, systemic cytokines and blood lymphocyte counts in advancing pregnancies of HIV-infected and HIV-non-infected women population. In a longitudinal cohort study, 44 HIV-infected and 44 HIV-non-infected pregnant...
ABSTRACT Public relations (PR) in Kenya is a significant discipline and a growing industry. However, it still faces many challenges with one of the major challenges is the misconception of PR in the country. Seemingly, many people still confuse public relations for marketing or advertising. Further, firms are yet to fully understand the benefits of PR in their strategic management particularly when employed to their daily operations. Unilever (K) Ltd faced allegations of sexual harassment and...