Browsing RP-Department of History, Archaeology and Political Studies by Issue Date
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Land, labour and capital in Natal: The Natal Land and Colonisation Company 1860–19481
(Cambridge University Press, 1975-04)The history of the London-based Natal Land and Colonisation Company is explored against the background of the evolving political economy of rural Natal. In the early years of the colony, white-controlled farming operations ... -
The provision of formal western education among the Kenyan pastoral communities; 1900-1990
(Eastern Africa Journal of Historical and Social Sciences Research, 2000) -
Searching for and accessing senior managers for public universities in Africa: challenges and opportunities
(Kenyatta University, 2001) -
Anthropology in Africa: what future for the historian?
(Kenyatta University, 2002)The relationship between anthropology and history has been differentiated by the notion of change. Also, the history of anthropology lends itself to specific people as its object of study- people without history. Its ... -
Nomiya Luo Church: A gender analysis of the dynamics of an African Independent Church in Siaya district, Kenya, c.1907 to 1963
(Southern African Missiological Society vol 31 Issue Number 2 Pages 239-277, 2003)This paper explores the connections between gender and the independency Christian ideology in the formation of new social relations as well as affirmation of traditional relations of domination between men and women. To ... -
The Politics of Marginal Forms: Popular Music, Cultural Identity and Political Opposition in Kenya
(CODESRIA, 2004)This paper focuses specifically on the Kenyan context to contest the foregoing position. Its argument rests on the axiom that whereas it has become normal in the writings on civil society, democratization and so on, to ... -
A Global Mennonite History: Volume One: Africa
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Ethical Practices For Effective Leadership: Fact Or Fallacy-The Kenyan Experience
(KCA Journal of Business Managementt, 2009)The subject of ethics in Kenya has been a hot one for the last few years. The country has witnessed some of the worst corruption scandals in her history since independence. Even with the establishment of the Kenya ... -
Mutongi Kenda. Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya
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Old issues and new challenges: the Migingo Island controversy and the Kenya–Uganda borderland
(Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2010-06-28)This paper examines the controversy between Kenya and Uganda over the ownership of Migingo Island in the shared Lake Victoria waters, in the context of general debates regarding African boundary disputes. The Migingo ... -
Leadership Practices: A case of selected corporate institutions in Nairobi, Kenya
(Journal of leadership, Governance and Development, 2011-06)Leadership determines whether an organization, a nation or a group will achieve its goals and also satisfy the followers' needs. This study focused on leadership practices in selected institutions in Nairobi-Kenya. The ... -
Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way by Steven Radelet. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2010.
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The impact of globalization on African countries economic development
(African Journal of Business Management, 2012-11)The term globalization captures the attention of everyone and especially economic development researchers. However, despite the prior prosperity promises of globalization and the benefits of an information accessing society, ... -
Place Branding as a Means for Negotiating for an African identity: A Personal Reflection of Myths, Roles and Perspectives in Kenya
(2013)The recreation of an indigenous identity for Africa has undergone significant challenge. The very nature of a dynamic global, socio-economic environment has created a political quagmire within African societies. Such ... -
Reading the Story of Jesus Christ as an Epic
(Cultural and Religious Studies, 2015)There is no doubt that Jesus Christ is the eternal embodiment of the Christian faith. The story of salvation, especially the life of Jesus, forms the basis through which many Christians encounter the eternal. Indeed, each ... -
Settler-Missionary Alliance in Colonial Kenya and the Land Question
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2020)This article sets out to demonstrate the hugger-muggers that oiled the existence of an unholy alliance between European settler-farmers and missionaries—the Anglicans and Presbyterians and/or the Protestant wing in ... -
Ecclesia Anglicana Conference of September 2020: Cooking Anglican ecclesiology in a Kenyan Pot?
(Jumuga Journal of Education,Oral Studies, and Human Sciences, 2020)Asthe first wave of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19)was beingexperienced in Kenya since 13 March 2020,when a 27-year-old Kenyan woman became the first person to be diagnosed with it, some Anglicans in Kenya were ... -
Resource Struggle, Resultant Realities and the Future of Maragoli Land Use
(Journal of Agricultural Policy, 2020)Land has remained one of the most basic and valuable economic resource right from the precolonial to the post independent Kenyan society. The success or failure of every society is always pegged on how prudent the society ... -
Transformation of Gender Power Relations in Igembe Central, Meru County, Kenya Between 1895 and 1963
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2020)The gender role theory suggests that socially identified males and females occupy different ascribed roles within divergent expectations of how they should behave. The theory groups men and women separately and assigns ...
