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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Kikuyu"”.
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Kikuyu Christianity and its Public Role in Kenya, 1891 - 1960
This study on Kikuyu Christianity and its Public Role in Kenya examines the engagement between the Kikuyu of Central Kenya and Christianity during the colonial period. The study sees Central Kenya’s pre-encounter martial tradition and Church of Scotland’s Mission corporeal approach to inculcating …
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Response of kikuyu grass (Pennisetum clandestinum) to irrigation with saline, sodic wastes and nitrogenous, manganiferous effluent
… source. Irrigation of the MMC waste over nearby kikuyu ( Pennisetum clandestinum) pastures could thus potentially solve a waste disposal problem as well as provide fertilization of the pastures, although the high manganese content of the waste poses a risk of manganese toxicity or pollution. The …
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Seeking the optimal development of Kikuyu women: A qualitative examination of traditional sex roles in Maai Mahiu, Kenya
… from the largest ethnic group in Kenya, the Kikuyu. This study provides a qualitative examination of sex roles from the perspective of Kikuyu women in rural Maai Mahiu, Kenya. A critical feminist lens was used to understand and gently challenge issues of stagnancy related to sex roles and …
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The effects of language on the informativeness and accuracy of child witnesses in Kenya
… which is located in rural Central Kenya where Kikuyu is the dominant home language for the locals. Hence, all seventy-six 9-15-year-old Grade five pupils who took part in the study spoke Kikuyu as their home language. They also learnt English as a subject and used it as a language of …
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Household allocation of labor time in two types of smallholder farming systems in rural Kenya
… of 289 participants were selected from Njoro and Kikuyu divisions. Spot observations, personal observations, questionnaires, and focus groups methods were used to collect data. Ecological zones influenced the amount of time allocated to work. Households in Njoro spent less time on work than …
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A Kenyan Revolution: Mau Mau, Land, Women, and Nation.
<p>The Kikuyu, the largest ethnic group in Kenya, resisted colonial authority, which culminated into what became known as Mau Mau, led by the Kenya Land Freedom Army. During this time, the British colonial government imposed laws limiting their access to land, politics, and independence. The …
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Oral literature and the communication of change and innovations in Kenya
… for analysis in this study have been from the Kikuyu people of Central Kenya. Oral texts were recorded and sourced from oral artists, composers and storytellers during fieldwork in this region. Oral narratives, oral poetry in the form of songs, proverbs and oral dramas constitute the main data …
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Remembering the 1998 Nairobi terror attack: cultural and trauma memory and the reconciliation of a nation
… ethnically inclined coverage by focussing on two Kikuyu victims, Rose Wanjiku and Sammy Nganga, as the most victimized; portrayed as the paragons of a reckless act of terrorism. This study, therefore, focuses on August 7th 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi and argues that the memories of …
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Baseline surveys and metal binding proteins as metal pollution indicators
… organisms (whelk, Bullia digitalis and "kikuyu" grass) and it was shown that dramatic increases in metal may not necessarily be toxic. It was concluded that less effort and time should be spent on metal analysis in determination of metal pollution and attention should rather be directed …
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Mobile People, Mobile God: Mobile Societies, Monotheism, and the Effects of Ecological Landscapes on the Development of Ancient Religions
… including the religions: Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Kikuyu, Maasai, and Lakota) and a dataset of temple sites of the greater Near East through the Iron Age, which are in established archaeological record, digitally mapped in ArcGIS, this argument takes up an examination of the apparent …
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Ontology verbalization in agglutinating Bantu languages: a study of Runyankore and its generalizability
… and isiZulu respectively, and chiShona, Kikuyu, and Kinyarwanda from different zones, and used the bootstrap metric that we developed to identify the most efficient source—target bootstrap pair. By regrouping Meinhof’s noun class system we were able to eliminate non-determinism during …
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International commercial arbitration in Kenya: is arbitration a viable alternative in resolving commercial disputes in Kenya?
… dispute resolution mechanisms of the Kamba, the Kikuyu and the Kipsingis, all communities living in Kenya before the country was colonised by the British. We also looked at how the law of arbitration was introduced. Having established the basis of the Arbitration law in the country, the writer …
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Reading achievement in Kenya: the language factor
… households use other languages at home (e.g. Kikuyu, Kikamba). This dissertation uses survey data collected in 2012 by USAID. The study explores the extent to which the impact of being taught in Kiswahili in lower grades, depends on whether or not Kiswahili is the pupil's home language. School …
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The Greedy Eaters: A moral politics of continuity and consumption in urbanising central Kenya
Since before the colonial period, Kikuyu in central Kenya have argued about the morality of wealth and the delinquency of poverty. A kinship-based labour ethic was at the heart of these moralising debates. Men and women could gain public standing from accumulating the land and tenants that …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… evidence of a positive correlation between Kikuyu ethnic identity and poverty measures as well as simple correlations between poverty measures and county-type. We construct the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) (from three domains: education, dwelling conditions, and access to key basic …
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Ethnic and political dynamics of poverty, employment, and wages in Kenya
… evidence of a positive correlation between Kikuyu ethnic identity and poverty measures as well as simple correlations between poverty measures and county-type. We construct the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) (from three domains: education, dwelling conditions, and access to key basic …
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Public policy alternatives for self-help (Harambe) schooling in Kenya
… in the Central Province under the name, Kikuyu Independent Schools; and in many locations of Nyanza Province. The largest movement of self-help education started in 1963. Records show that such schools have grown in magnitude and have contributed to the increase in the number of secondary …