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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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From Firesides to the Modern Lounge: A Critical Appraisal of Film and Television Fairytales in Kenya
(School of Visual and Performing Arts Kenyatta University, 2013)Vladimir Propp, in 1928, published a groundbreaking text; Morphology of the Folktale, in which he outlined and defined the characteristics and morphology of fairytales. His work not only changed the study of folklore but ... -
Public Perception of Parliament Broadcasting in Kenya: Towards Altering Mutual Attitude and Augmenting Knowledge
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2014)A major problem faced by many countries where Parliamentary democracy is developing, is lack of public knowledge and awareness about the functions of Parliaments and their mode of operation (Miller, 2008; IPU, 2006; ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Sociolingual Disposition of the Emergent Deejay Afro Film Commentary in Kenya
(American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2014)The Kenyan film scene has experienced a descending trajectory characterized by dwindling fortunes in cinema theatres, leading to closure of famed theatres like Odeon cinema, Nairobi cinema, Fox drive-in cinemas, and Globe ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
