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...
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...
Research is a major component to national development. Local research content is closer to most of the problems affecting the society and the people. The government of Kenya has continued to support research activities by allocating a lot of resources towards research and universities and other research institutions are daily engaged in carrying out research. However, evidence as indicated from citation and referencing of research by graduate students shows overreliance on research con...
ABSTRACT Capacity gaps’ influencing the outcome of peacekeeping operations has been an issue in all the conflicts. Although gaps influencing the outcome of peacekeeping operations involving inter-state conflicts and intra-state conflicts where resources are the common denominator have been examined, capacity gaps influencing peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts where jihadist terror ideology is a major factor in the conflict remains shadowed in an enigmatic environment. More importantly, ...
ABSTRACT The problem of employment among the youth is a challenge that affects their livelihoods. After one has attained the age of majority (over 18 years) and has basic education, what one carries is a hope of getting gainful employment. Employment gives young people hope, stability, identity, a sense of belonging and an opportunity to settle down in life. The reason for this study was to investigate the ramifications of regional politics on youth employment in the police service: An insta...
ABSTRACT Integrated Library Systems are adopted by libraries in order to meet the ever changing needs of their users and make the library staff more efficient and effective in conducting their work on a daily basis. In recent years’ libraries have made huge investments in acquisition of these systems. This study has established the effects of integrated library systems’ performance of the Post Modern Library of Kenyatta University, Kenya. The specific objectives have evaluated the effect...
ABSTRACT National Hospital insurance fund has faced so many challenges regarding to service delivery. Majority of the national hospital insurance fund accredited facilities in Wajir County have failed to satisfy the customers or members. The problem has escalated to Mashaalah nursing home and even to Jeddah nursing home which are situated in Wajir County. Therefore the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of strategic quality management initiatives and service delivery in National...
ABSTRACT This research utilizes colourants from the Vernonia amygdalina (V. amygdalina) plant in an artistic wall tapestry project that drew inspiration from moral lessons found in Bukusu children narratives. The research was based on Loum and Lukyambuzi (2013) study that was done in Uganda and which utilized only one variety of V. amygdalina plant on cotton fabric. Loum‟s study obtained positive results as it confirmed that that plant was polygenetic. This research assumed that dyes extra...
ABSTRACT With the influence of internal and external factors, Huduma (Service) Centres operating in Kenya have continued to experience deteriorating performance due to issues of strategy implementation. Formulation of good strategies is not a reflection that implementation will take place. Effective implementations of strategy give organizations a competitive edge in the local and global business environments. Successful strategy implementation has been correlated with organizational perform...
ABSTRACT Many developing countries now grapple with the problem of unemployment. The unemployment rate among the youth is particularly higher than other demographic segments – especially in developing economies. Interestingly, the cities in many developing economies with high rates of youth unemployment also battle high rates of urban crime. The purpose of this study was to establish how youth unemployment influences crime rates in Mathare Constituency, with the aim of identifying strategi...
ABSTRACT The study set out to assess the utilization of social cash transfer allocation by older persons in Kirinyaga County. Despite extensive research on the concept of social cash transfer programmes for various social groups, little is known about the utilization of the allocation by the beneficiaries in Kenya. Thus, the study aimed at assessing the utilization of social cash transfer allocation by older persons in Kirinyaga County, with a view to making recommendations which can be used...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya adopted strategic planning in various parastatals, institutions and ministries to address distinct and prioritized strategic agendas in order to uplift service delivery. In the County Government of Nandi, strategic planning is part of the ongoing public sector reforms geared at improving effectiveness and efficiency in the prompt delivery of public services. Strategic planning in the County Government is aimed at achieving the sustainable development goals (...
ABSTRACT Information literacy in the 21st century is considered as a tool to individual empowerment and community development it forms the basis for lifelong learning it‟s common to all disciplines, to all learning environments and to all levels of education; however underutilization of electronic information resources in Kenyatta university library indicate that the postgraduate students lacks the information literacy skills required despite going through the IL training program offered t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out how the library leadership has initiated and managed change at The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi in order to meet the expectations of diverse categories of users and get support from the parent organization and donors. The study was guided by the following objectives: To identify the change management programs at the Technical University of Kenya Library, to identify the role of the University Librarian in change management, to estab...