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The Design of Characters in Tinga Tinga Tales: A Kenyan Animation Film
(AJOEI, 2023-09)Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of character design in the Kenyan animation industry. The study specifically focused on the use of character design to convey meaning in the ... -
Influence of Media Training on the Competence of Journalists in Kenya: Perceptions of Standard Group Limited Managers and Senior Journalists
(AJOBEI, 2019)A number of researches have indicated that training institutions have failed to impart skills and knowledge to students that would be transferred to the industry upon graduation and employment, hence the quality of ... -
A ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy Model’ To Predict Students’ ‘Perceived Elearning Experience’
(JSTOR, 2008)This study investigates ‘how and why’ students’ ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy’ (UGE) for e-learning resources influences their ‘Perceived e-Learning Experience.’ A ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy Model’ (UGEM) ... -
Utilization of Films as Wellsprings of Succour, Edification and Repose for Psychologically Lacerated Persons: An Exploratory Study
(Royallite publishers, 2017)This paper presents an appraisal on Film, principally docudrama as a tool in the psychotherapeutic process among distressed people. The major findings resulting from reviewing several studies illustrate that cinematic ... -
Sergei Eisenstein : Contributions to Montage Theory and Cinema
(African Journal of Emerging Issues, 2023)Background: In this paper, the author will be scrutinizing the theory of Montage, and the contribution of Sergei Eisenstein to it as well as his filmmaking career which he later proceeds after working as an engineer like ... -
Newspaper Audiences’ Gains from Reading News about Parliament in Kenya
(Reviewed Journal International of Business Management. www.reviewedjournals.com, 2023)Gate-keeping in journalism is of vital importance in the media environment today. In Kenya, the role of media in the safeguarding of transparency of democratic processes in modern-day politics and society cannot be ... -
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 ... -
Factors Contributing to the Onset and Continuation of Drug Abuse among Secondary School Students in Mombasa County, Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), 2017-05)Adolescence is a period of significant developmental changes associated with the onset of drug abuse worldwide. This study was set up to examine some of the factors associated with the onset and escalation of drug abuse ... -
Theatre as a Campaign Tool against Drug and Substance Abuse in Selected Kenyan Schools Plays
(African Journal of Alcohol & Drug Abuse, 2020-12-31)The Kenya National Drama Festival Committee, the organizers of the National Schools, Colleges and Universities Drama Festival usually enters into a sponsorship agreement with other institutions to help in disseminating ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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The Design of Characters in Tinga Tinga Tales: A Kenyan Animation Film
(AJOEI, 2023-09)Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of character design in the Kenyan animation industry. The study specifically focused on the use of character design to convey meaning in the ... -
Influence of Media Training on the Competence of Journalists in Kenya: Perceptions of Standard Group Limited Managers and Senior Journalists
(AJOBEI, 2019)A number of researches have indicated that training institutions have failed to impart skills and knowledge to students that would be transferred to the industry upon graduation and employment, hence the quality of ... -
Utilization of Films as Wellsprings of Succour, Edification and Repose for Psychologically Lacerated Persons: An Exploratory Study
(Royallite publishers, 2017)This paper presents an appraisal on Film, principally docudrama as a tool in the psychotherapeutic process among distressed people. The major findings resulting from reviewing several studies illustrate that cinematic ... -
A ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy Model’ To Predict Students’ ‘Perceived Elearning Experience’
(JSTOR, 2008)This study investigates ‘how and why’ students’ ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy’ (UGE) for e-learning resources influences their ‘Perceived e-Learning Experience.’ A ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy Model’ (UGEM) ... -
Sergei Eisenstein : Contributions to Montage Theory and Cinema
(African Journal of Emerging Issues, 2023)Background: In this paper, the author will be scrutinizing the theory of Montage, and the contribution of Sergei Eisenstein to it as well as his filmmaking career which he later proceeds after working as an engineer like ... -
Newspaper Audiences’ Gains from Reading News about Parliament in Kenya
(Reviewed Journal International of Business Management. www.reviewedjournals.com, 2023)Gate-keeping in journalism is of vital importance in the media environment today. In Kenya, the role of media in the safeguarding of transparency of democratic processes in modern-day politics and society cannot be ... -
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 ... -
Factors Contributing to the Onset and Continuation of Drug Abuse among Secondary School Students in Mombasa County, Kenya
(International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), 2017-05)Adolescence is a period of significant developmental changes associated with the onset of drug abuse worldwide. This study was set up to examine some of the factors associated with the onset and escalation of drug abuse ... -
Theatre as a Campaign Tool against Drug and Substance Abuse in Selected Kenyan Schools Plays
(African Journal of Alcohol & Drug Abuse, 2020-12-31)The Kenya National Drama Festival Committee, the organizers of the National Schools, Colleges and Universities Drama Festival usually enters into a sponsorship agreement with other institutions to help in disseminating ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2011-06)
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