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The aesthetics of children’s theatre: appreciating and maximizing on the psycho-social potentials for social and economic advancement
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The aesthetics of children’s theatre: Appreciating and maximizing on the psycho-social potentials for social and economic advancement
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Changing Spectres: Interweaving Loops in Kenyan Theatre
(Royallite Global, 2020)Theatre critics have proclaimed the death of serious theatre on the stages of Kenya, arguing that all that could be seen are slapstick comedies which cannot survive beyond stage performance. Theatre and art in general is ... -
Community Theatre and Development Practices in the Nyanza Region of Kenya
(2015-09)Positing Community Theatre as an agency for development and is an effective way to encourage community dialogue, this article interrogates practices and efficacies of Community Theatre in Nyanza, Kenya. While contending ... -
A Conceptual Framework for Research in Music and Music Education Within a Cultural Context
(University of Ilinois Press, 2000)Music education in Kenya has been, and continues to be conducted along Western theories which fall short of defining music as experienced within traditional African cultures (New, ¡980; Omondi, 1980; Kwami, 1989; Akuno, ... -
Concomitants of socio-cultural exigencies on narrative preferences in the Kenyan “Riverwood” film
(Royallite Global, 2017)In a report commissioned by the World Story Organization in 2008, Justine Edwards points out that storyline lies at the centre of problems that Kenyan films face in trying to “break down the wall preventing Kenyan ... -
Configuration of Kenya’s Children’s Television Drama
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2014)Children’s film is an artistic genre in its own right with its distinctive character and utility in the society. Machachari is a local television drama that is centred on children. This episodic film, while revolving ... -
Corollaries of Size: Encumbrances of Childhood in West-Indian Fiction
(Royallite Global, 2018)Perhaps the child’s physical and mental sizes contribute more to the position a child is bestowed in a society. Childhood has been viewed as an epitome of weakness and infirmity of both body and soul. This has been the ... -
The Creative Menopause Syndrome in Nollywood Video Films: A Lingering Deficiency
(Royallite Global, 2018)The Nigerian movie industry, otherwise popularly known as Nollywood, is arguably Africa’s largest film industry and ranked amongst the top three film industries in the world. With a ... -
Creativity and Aesthetics: A Case of Women's Beaded Ornaments in the Kenyan Coast
(2013)Available literature on traditional African Art virtually ignores women's creative and aesthetic sensibilities in artistic production. When women's traditional African art is mentioned, focus is made within the crafts, ... -
Creativity and Interdisciplinary Linkages: the Visual and Performing Arts and Other Disciplines
(2013)Creativity has been linked to various contexts and meanings in the cultural, political, economic, religious, and educational milieu. Though most of the early writers attributed the concept of creativity to the arts such ... -
Crises Experienced in Church Organizations: The Case of Parklands Baptist Church Nairobi Kenya
(IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS), 2017-03)This study evaluated crisis preparedness in churches and focused mainly on crisis communication in Parklands Baptist Church (PBC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The study’s main objective was to find out the types of crises that ... -
Delineation of National Healing and Conflict Resolution in Film: A Case Study of Kenya
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2014)Wale Watu is a film by Cajetan Boy. This feature film was inspired by the post election chaos that followed the disputed 2007 elections in Kenya. The plot of Wale Watu orbits around two youths, Paul and Mercy. Coming ... -
Developing Vocal Music Assessment Schedule: An Analysis in Synchrony to the Current Systems in Kenyan Universities
(African Musicology Online, 2019)This paper sought to address the process through which universities in Kenya assess vocal music performance. The analysis was drawn against a checklist of 19 items that sought to develop a schedule ... -
Drawing With My Students’ - The Role of Surrealism in Self-Expression among University Art Students. Analysis of Selected Surrealistic Work by Fourth Year Students at Kenyatta University
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2021-02)Surrealistic art is one of the most engaging and intriguing art genres. Surrealism itself is considered to have been the most influential art movement of the 20th century. Started in the 1920s as a literary movement that ... -
‘Drawing with my Students’ – Development of Clothed Life Drawings among University Fine Art Students. Analysis of Selected Drawings by Second Year Students at Kenyatta University
(East African Nature & Science Organisation, 2021)Students of Fine Art are introduced to drawing in their first year and human figure drawing in their second year. It is presumed that they have already had some element of earlier exposure in other levels of prior studies. ... -
The Dynamics of Art and Craft Curriculum in Enhancing Child Growth and Development
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2020)As the government of Kenya is geared towards achieving sustainable development goals and Kenya Big 4 Agenda, the Ministry of Education rolled out the new education system 2-6-3-3-3 dubbed “Competence Base Curriculum” whose ... -
Effect of Viewing Emotionally Laden Paintings on Attitudes of Male Sex Offenders
(International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2021-02)Creative arts are overly caricatured as non-essentially flossy and unmerited luxury particularly when executed in a jail setting. However, research suggests that art-based prison programs can significantly bear upon the ... -
Effective and Health Ways of Minimizing Eruption of COVID-19
(Science Publishing Group, 2020)The phylogenetic analyses that have been done on the emergence and causative agents of the 2019 novel Coronavirus Disease have focused on the epidemiology and the identification of the specific causative agents linked to ...