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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 ... -
Generation and Interpretation of Sculptural Ideas in Large Scale Stone Sculptures Placed in Outdoor Public Spaces: An Analysis of the Stone Sculptures of Gerald Motondi Oroo.
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2021)This paper presupposes that there is no artwork, in this case, large-scale outdoor sculptural work, that is undertaken without a defined ‘intent’; the extent and description of which depends on the individual artist and ... -
Play with Painting & Clay: A Re-Booth of Psychoanalysis Healing on a Child Affected By COVID-19
(East African Nature & Science Organisation, 2021)The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in the closure of school among others. Children’s welfare, especially playing was obstructed due to COVID-19 pandemic ... -
‘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 Role of Hyperrealism in Painted Portraiture –Engaging Culture: Analysis of Portraiture by Eddy Ochieng
(East African Nature and Science Organization, 2020)Portraiture remains one of the most fascinating genres of Art; it is engaging, intriguing and often, perhaps, a little controversial. Portraiture has been executed through the centuries in a variety of styles and media and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A historical perspective on the evolution and presentations of the ideal in children’s television: A study of Kenyan television from 1989 to 2012
(Royallite Global, 2017)This paper aims at offering a brief history of children’s television in Kenya since 1989 when Voice of Kenya (VoK) was rebranded Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). The year 1989 is unique in the sense that ... -
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 ... -
Efficacies of 2-D Animation in Health and Security Communication
(Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015)Health is categorized as a security issue as its lack causes individuals to fall ill, be disabled or die. Being deficient of health can therefore disrupt entire populations, economies, and ... -
The Gender Agenda in Kenyan Children’s Feature Films
(Journal of African Theatre, Filmand Media Discourse, 2017)The gender agenda has featured substantially in creative works from Africa and particularly Kenya. Although film is considered a new form of creative expression in Africa, compared to the west, it has not ... -
Potentials of Drama Therapy in Unmasking the Personae of Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation among the Kenyan Maasai
(Journal of African Theatre, Film and Media Discourse, 2017)Circumcision of females was and still remains a cultural practice in many African communities. While modernity and access to education has led to vilification of this tradition, the guardians and conservators of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Themes in Kenyan cinema: Seasons and reasons
(Cogent OA, 2017)This is a study of thematic dimensions taken by feature films produced in Kenya from 1963 to 2013. The rather expansive 50-year period is characterised by varied historical, economic, social and technological changes in ...
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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 ... -
Generation and Interpretation of Sculptural Ideas in Large Scale Stone Sculptures Placed in Outdoor Public Spaces: An Analysis of the Stone Sculptures of Gerald Motondi Oroo.
(East African Nature & Science Organization, 2021)This paper presupposes that there is no artwork, in this case, large-scale outdoor sculptural work, that is undertaken without a defined ‘intent’; the extent and description of which depends on the individual artist and ... -
Play with Painting & Clay: A Re-Booth of Psychoanalysis Healing on a Child Affected By COVID-19
(East African Nature & Science Organisation, 2021)The world is awakening to the nursing of devastating COVID-19 pandemic effects that resulted in the closure of school among others. Children’s welfare, especially playing was obstructed due to COVID-19 pandemic ... -
‘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 Role of Hyperrealism in Painted Portraiture –Engaging Culture: Analysis of Portraiture by Eddy Ochieng
(East African Nature and Science Organization, 2020)Portraiture remains one of the most fascinating genres of Art; it is engaging, intriguing and often, perhaps, a little controversial. Portraiture has been executed through the centuries in a variety of styles and media and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A historical perspective on the evolution and presentations of the ideal in children’s television: A study of Kenyan television from 1989 to 2012
(Royallite Global, 2017)This paper aims at offering a brief history of children’s television in Kenya since 1989 when Voice of Kenya (VoK) was rebranded Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). The year 1989 is unique in the sense that ... -
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 ... -
Efficacies of 2-D Animation in Health and Security Communication
(Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015)Health is categorized as a security issue as its lack causes individuals to fall ill, be disabled or die. Being deficient of health can therefore disrupt entire populations, economies, and ... -
The Gender Agenda in Kenyan Children’s Feature Films
(Journal of African Theatre, Filmand Media Discourse, 2017)The gender agenda has featured substantially in creative works from Africa and particularly Kenya. Although film is considered a new form of creative expression in Africa, compared to the west, it has not ... -
Potentials of Drama Therapy in Unmasking the Personae of Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation among the Kenyan Maasai
(Journal of African Theatre, Film and Media Discourse, 2017)Circumcision of females was and still remains a cultural practice in many African communities. While modernity and access to education has led to vilification of this tradition, the guardians and conservators of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Themes in Kenyan cinema: Seasons and reasons
(Cogent OA, 2017)This is a study of thematic dimensions taken by feature films produced in Kenya from 1963 to 2013. The rather expansive 50-year period is characterised by varied historical, economic, social and technological changes in ... -
Message films in Africa: A look into the past
(Cogent OA, 2016)Message film-making has characterised much of films produced in post-independent Kenya. The country produced very few films in the 1980s, when indigenous film-making actually began to take root. Liberalisation of the ... -
The aesthetics of children’s theatre: appreciating and maximizing on the psycho-social potentials for social and economic advancement
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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 ... -
More than Just Good Feelings: Advocacy for Music among Mainstream Subjects
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In many world cultures music plays a central role in life’s activities (from birth to death) of the communities and in some instances it is said to be inseparable from daily activities. In Kenya these attributes of music ...
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