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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
