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Reproductive Biology of Tilapia zillii (Gervais) in Lake Naivasha, Kenya
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1979)
Tilapia zillii breeds all year round in the equatorial Lake Naivasha with slightly high breeding intensity during wet months (March, May and July–August). A sex ratio of 1 : 1.28 was found between males and females. The ...
Poverty, Energy, and Resource Use in Developing Countries: Focus on Africa.
(New York Academy of Sciences, 2008)
Energy poverty affects poor communities and poor nations far more severely, and more directly, than in developed nations. Poor rural communities are particularly vulnerable, and the poor globally spend by far the largest ...
“Remapping the Fabric of the African Self: A Synoptic Theory”
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006-03)
A thorough knowledge of the synoptic structure and contents of the modern African self is essential for an improved understanding of the Africa of the 21st century. This lack has compelled practitioners to continue to use ...
The Shattered Microcosm: Imperatives for Improved Family Therapy in Africa in the 21st Century
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 2004-06)
This paper provides an in-depth socio-political analysis of the basis for the limits of family therapy in Africa in the last 40 years. The goal is to make more visible the economic, social, political, and cultural factors ...
Decision-Making Therapy in HIV/AIDS: The African Experience
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)
The challenge of providing relevant and sophisticated counseling interventions to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa has greatly intensified. The task has shifted from what it was deemed to entail at the first decade of the ...
Phylogenetic relationship and divergence among planktonic strains of Arthrospira (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) of African, Asian and American origin deduced by 16S–23S ITS and phycocyanin operon sequences
(Phycologia, 2010-07)
Arthrospira comprises multicellular, cylindrical, usually screwlike coiled trichomes and is cultivated commercially. In this study, 33 new strains of Arthrospira isolated from plankton samples collected in Mexico, East ...
‘Dear Diary I saw an Angel, She Looked like Heaven on Earth’: Sex Talk and Sex Education
(Routledge, 2003)
In this paper we highlight and address some of the problems involved in teaching HIV/AIDS education in southern and eastern Africa, and especially in generating open discussion among pupils about sex and sexuality. The ...
National culture and organizational capabilities of IT offshoring services in Kenya
(African Journal of Business Management, 2012-01-17)
The pervasive adoption of outsourced information technology (IT) services has made the multi-billion dollar information technology outsourcing industry become important to individual organizations and governments as well. ...
Indigenous soil and water conservation techniques in smallholder farms in Africa.
(Springer, 2007)
Runoff and soil erosion are responsible for about 83% of the land degradation worldwide. Many smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid areas of Africa often use inexpensive indigenous soil and water conservation (ISWC) ...
Renewable energy in Kenya: Resource potential and status of exploitation
(Elsevier, 2011)
This paper presents an assessment of renewable energy resource potential and the current status of exploitation in Kenya. As an importer of petroleum fuels, Kenya spends a substantial amount of foreign reserves to import ...