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Religious Approaches as Remedy to Violence in Africa
(Contemporary Research Center, 2016-04)Violence is one of the causes of underdevelopment in Africa. Specifically, politically instigated violence in Africa has undermined social, economic, political and spiritual developments. This paper explains the route ... -
The Phenomenon of Examination Malpractice: An Example of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2013)This paper focuses on examination malpractices in educational institutions with particular reference to two public universities in Kenya. To facilitate this discussion we posed the following questions: What is an examination ... -
Work Ethics for Lecturers: An Example of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities
(Center for Enhancing Knowledge, UK, 2013)Universities as institutions of higher learning have organizational vision based on and consistent with their core values. Values are what people judge to be right and acceptable. They are moral, ethical and professional ... -
Concept of Basic Human Rights in African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa and Jesus Is Alive Ministries
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The phenomenon of religious switching among university students: The case of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities, Kenya
(2013-05)This paper examines the concept of religious switching or mobility which is one of the characteristics of modernity and post-modernity religious phenomenon. Modernity is characterized by differentiations in an attempt ... -
African Traditional Cultural Conundrums which Make Women Prone to HIV/AIDS Infections: A Case of the Maasai of Kenya
(Contemporary Research Center, 2013)The term conundrum may mean a tricky problem that is difficult to solve (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, 2000: 251). It describes the problems of the African patriarchal society in which the sex-based assignment of ... -
The impact of gender on orphans’ self-esteem and academic performance among secondary school students in Kirinyaga and Nyeri Counties of Kenya
(International Research Journals, 2014)Gender as constructed by culture in our African context, has the potential of influencing the level of self- esteem of a child, and particularly a girl-child or a school girl for that matter. In turn, this will (negatively) ... -
Incorporation of Traditional African Cultural Values in the Formal Education System for Development, Peace Building and Good Governance
(Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, 2014)In contemporary Africa, formal education is recognized as a basic prerequisite for development. By implication, the school has become important as a socializing agent. In spite of this, schooling is based in institutions ... -
Overcoming poverty through Faith Based Organisation’s in Mbeere-land of Kenya
(Online Research Journals, 2015)Christian Faith Based Organizations are one of the largest sectors of development agencies making a significant contribution towards the historical development process and its specific interventions in Mbeere-land of Kenya. ... -
Men battering as the new form of domestic violence? A pastoral care perspective from the Kenyan context
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015)The article sets out to show that gender-based violence is no longer restricted to ‘women by men’. Rather society must appreciate that gender battering is a reality across the gender divide, particularly in the 21st ... -
Integrating African values into the Institutionalised Education and its Implications for the Youth in Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2015)African countries have for a long time emphasized on the role of institutionalised education in promoting economic and social development. Indeed, education is considered a gateway to furnishing the continent not only ... -
Community integration for psychosocial well-being: building sustainable peace and strengthening identity through story- telling in the South Sudan
(2015)In a war-ravaged country, a great need exists for community integration in order to heal the psychosocial wounds and to enable the process of development and reconstruction for peace. Even after settling in their villages ... -
The 'Impact of Massification on higher education in public universities: a Kenyan example
(Kenyatta University, 2001) -
Reconstructive Hermeneutics in African Christology
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015)The article sets out to demonstrate African reconstructive Christology as the seventh Christological trend in African Christianity. Considering that African theology is kerygmatically universal, but theologically provincial, ... -
The Impact of Magic and Witchcraft in the Social, Economic, Political and Spiritual Life of African Communities
(2014)Most Africans believe that witchcraft cause unusual phenomenon like accidents, conflicts, death, domestic and public aggression, loss of poverty, sickness and failure. The mystical powers are controlled by witches who ...
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Religious Approaches as Remedy to Violence in Africa
(Contemporary Research Center, 2016-04)Violence is one of the causes of underdevelopment in Africa. Specifically, politically instigated violence in Africa has undermined social, economic, political and spiritual developments. This paper explains the route ... -
The Phenomenon of Examination Malpractice: An Example of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities
(International Knowledge Sharing Platform, 2013)This paper focuses on examination malpractices in educational institutions with particular reference to two public universities in Kenya. To facilitate this discussion we posed the following questions: What is an examination ... -
Work Ethics for Lecturers: An Example of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities
(Center for Enhancing Knowledge, UK, 2013)Universities as institutions of higher learning have organizational vision based on and consistent with their core values. Values are what people judge to be right and acceptable. They are moral, ethical and professional ... -
Concept of Basic Human Rights in African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa and Jesus Is Alive Ministries
(Penn State University Press, 2012) -
The phenomenon of religious switching among university students: The case of Nairobi and Kenyatta Universities, Kenya
(2013-05)This paper examines the concept of religious switching or mobility which is one of the characteristics of modernity and post-modernity religious phenomenon. Modernity is characterized by differentiations in an attempt ... -
African Traditional Cultural Conundrums which Make Women Prone to HIV/AIDS Infections: A Case of the Maasai of Kenya
(Contemporary Research Center, 2013)The term conundrum may mean a tricky problem that is difficult to solve (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, 2000: 251). It describes the problems of the African patriarchal society in which the sex-based assignment of ... -
The impact of gender on orphans’ self-esteem and academic performance among secondary school students in Kirinyaga and Nyeri Counties of Kenya
(International Research Journals, 2014)Gender as constructed by culture in our African context, has the potential of influencing the level of self- esteem of a child, and particularly a girl-child or a school girl for that matter. In turn, this will (negatively) ... -
Incorporation of Traditional African Cultural Values in the Formal Education System for Development, Peace Building and Good Governance
(Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, 2014)In contemporary Africa, formal education is recognized as a basic prerequisite for development. By implication, the school has become important as a socializing agent. In spite of this, schooling is based in institutions ... -
Overcoming poverty through Faith Based Organisation’s in Mbeere-land of Kenya
(Online Research Journals, 2015)Christian Faith Based Organizations are one of the largest sectors of development agencies making a significant contribution towards the historical development process and its specific interventions in Mbeere-land of Kenya. ... -
Men battering as the new form of domestic violence? A pastoral care perspective from the Kenyan context
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015)The article sets out to show that gender-based violence is no longer restricted to ‘women by men’. Rather society must appreciate that gender battering is a reality across the gender divide, particularly in the 21st ... -
Integrating African values into the Institutionalised Education and its Implications for the Youth in Kenya
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers, 2015)African countries have for a long time emphasized on the role of institutionalised education in promoting economic and social development. Indeed, education is considered a gateway to furnishing the continent not only ... -
Community integration for psychosocial well-being: building sustainable peace and strengthening identity through story- telling in the South Sudan
(2015)In a war-ravaged country, a great need exists for community integration in order to heal the psychosocial wounds and to enable the process of development and reconstruction for peace. Even after settling in their villages ... -
The 'Impact of Massification on higher education in public universities: a Kenyan example
(Kenyatta University, 2001) -
Reconstructive Hermeneutics in African Christology
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015)The article sets out to demonstrate African reconstructive Christology as the seventh Christological trend in African Christianity. Considering that African theology is kerygmatically universal, but theologically provincial, ... -
The Impact of Magic and Witchcraft in the Social, Economic, Political and Spiritual Life of African Communities
(2014)Most Africans believe that witchcraft cause unusual phenomenon like accidents, conflicts, death, domestic and public aggression, loss of poverty, sickness and failure. The mystical powers are controlled by witches who ... -
Extremist or an Enculturationist? Retrieving Milkah Muthoni's (1948-2009) Afro-Pentecostalism
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014)Milkah Muthoni Waweru (1948-2009) played a key role in the changing theo-social landscape of central Kenya, particularly in mid 1960s, 70s and 80s, through her oral theologies which were well captured in her gospel music. ... -
‘Women, Come and Roast your Own Ram!’ Recollections on Mau-Mau General Chui wa Mararo (1927–1956)
(University of south Africa, 2013)Little has been written about General Chui (1927–1956), the unique and charismatic fighter during Kenya’s war of independence, yet he worked hand-in-hand with Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi Wachiuri, the overall commander ... -
Correlation between Students’ Discipline and Performance in The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
(Contemporary Research Center, 2013)Students in secondary schools are still in the age of rapid physical, social, psychological and physiological developments. These developments are accompanied with variety of changes which if not well attended to lead ... -
Charismatic Pentecostal Churches in Kenya: Growth, Culture and Orality
(Academicians Research Center, 2014)Charismatic Pentecostal churches in Kenya started in the cities and have now extended to the rural areas. The highest percentage of members in the charismatic Pentecostal churches in Kenya as this study established were ... -
Constraints and Prospects of Inculturation in Kenya
(Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014)The inculturation process in Kenya has been challenged by internal and external sources. Internally the process has been destabilized by the Kenyan socio-religio cultural structures which are patriarchal: men have been the ...
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