ABSTRACT This study analysed the effect of rainfall variability on potato yields in Oljoro-orok Division, Nyandarua County. The objective was to investigate the relationship between rainfall variability and Irish potato production in Oljoro-orok division. Specific objectives were: to assess the seasonal and annual rainfall and potato production trends and variability between 1999 and 2009, to analyse seasonal and annual rainfall characteristics and correlate them with potato production, to ev...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to find out precisely why ex-convicts are likely to repeat crime after incarceration in spite of the on-going rehabilitation at prison. The existing data from Kenya Prison division states that recidivism in Kenya prison continues to grow. The objective of the researcher in this perspective is to assess determinants of recidivism rate in Kenya focusing on Kamiti Maximum Prison. The key questions of interest are of what relevance is the rehabilitation programs offered ...
ABSTRACT The provision of security remains a fundamental challenge to many states owing to emerging threats that range from terrorism, organized and urban crime and Kenya has not been spared from these. The demand for security has gone up beyond what the state can provide; particularly after the August 1998 Nairobi and Dar es Salaam twin terrorist bombings aimed at the United States of America (USA) embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Pluralisation of policing has seen Private Security Companies...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate haptics and proxemics used in standard one pupilteacher classroom interaction, in selected schools of Karia-Kigoro division Murang‟a County, Kenya. The objectives of the study were to: identify the haptics and proxemics that class one children use in class; describe how the class one children respond to the use of haptics and proxemics in class; compare haptics and proxemics used by teachers in class one; and finally investigate the roles of pr...
ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study was conducted to find out the determinants of contraceptive use and fertility preference among women of reproductive age in Kakamega County, Kenya. The study utilized a descriptive survey design comprising quantitative and qualitative approaches. The target population was 444,350 women in the childbearing age in Kakamega County. To obtain the sample population size, the formula for finite population was used. The sample size consisted of 384 women in the re...
ABSTRACT Discourse is the language in use. A study on discourse markers (DMs) falls under discourse analysis which deals with the exploration of what language is employed for and therefore, it cannot be restricted only to the description of linguistic forms independently of the purposes these forms are designed to serve. DMs are common in spontaneous communication and play a significant role in any spoken interaction. The current research focuses on the forms and functions of English DMs occu...
ABSTRACT As the world‘s population continues to increase at unprecedented rate, demand for food and economic development has continued to exert pressure on the natural resources. In Tsitsikamma National park, South Africa, locals practice illegal activities. In Kenya conservation is an increasing challenge partly because of exclusion of local community and population increase. The purpose of the study was to assess the patterns of vegetative resource extraction within South Eastern edge of...
ABSTRACT The present study focuses on the use of a linguistic phenomenon in Kenya called Sheng. Sheng has been perceived as a variety restricted in its domains of use and for a long time seen as a language of the urban youth in Nairobi. However, the shift in the realm of communication in advertising and awareness campaigns in Kenya, from Standard English and Kiswahili to a non-standard, peer language Sheng has become evident. This raises the question as to whether Sheng is no longer a stigma...
ABSTRACT This study sought to establish whether there was any significant influence on employee performance owing to the existing employee retention practices put in placein the Administration Police Service within Nyandarua County. This study’s objectives were; to find out the effect of training and development on employee performance in Administration Police Service Nyandarua County, to establish the effect of compensation on employee performance in Administration Police Service, Nyanda...
ABSTRACT In 2002, the primary school curriculum in Kenya was revised. The curriculum requires coverage of emerging and cultural issues such as HIV/AIDS education, children rights, gender responsiveness, technology, integrity and environmental education. Mother tongue as a subject taught in lower primary is used to guide and orientate learners towards their culture, customs and accepted values of their society. It plays an important role in the teaching of emerging and cultural issues since l...
ABSTRACT This study is a sociolinguistic survey of the status of Language of Instruction (LOI) in Children’s Homes. It considers the fact that there is a variety of languages at the disposal of the children in CHs, who are a minority group in the society and so have no common language as the educational language policy requires during schooling. The study, therefore, sought to describe the status and implication of LOI in CHs in order to give empirical recommendation. The literature review...
ABSTRACT In Kenya despite the fact that various recommendations from task forces have been implemented on indiscipline in secondary schools, more cases of indiscipline have continued to be reported. Since boys and girls are socialized differently, by the time they go· to school, they have different behaviours and probably that might lead to having different forms and causes of indiscipline. The types and causes of indiscipline were discussed wider the following categories; types / causes o...
ABSTRACT Marriage is a social-cultural phenomenon which is biblically rooted as well as God instituted. In our contemporary society, many marriages; Christian and non-Christian alike face marital challenges which often call for a pastoral intervention from the pastoral leadership, especially among Christians. This phenomenon, no doubt, prompted the researcher to undertake this study, study on pastoral marital programmes used to address marital challenges in Redeemed Gospel Church (RGC) i...
ABSTRACT Nutrition Education is the process by which people gain knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for developing appropriate dietary habits. Schools, families and communities are the main social contexts in which lifestyles are developed. They are excellent settings for promoting nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP). In Kenya, there is scarcity of information on nutrition knowledge of primary school children. In addition, there is paucity of data on how nutrition knowle...
ABSTRACT This study is a historical investigation of the development of religious concepts and practices in funeral rituals among the Abatirichi of Western Kenya who belong to the larger Abaluyia community. It has traced the evolution and meaning of the religious concepts and practices in Abatirichi funeral rituals as occasioned by decades of encounters and interaction with external cultural systems. The study has examined a historical transformation of rituals with specific reference to typ...