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The Activities of Organized Criminal Groups and Their Effects on Peace and Security in Nairobi County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya, 2021)This paper is derived from a study that was funded by Kenyatta university Vice-Chancellor's Research Grant. It discusses the activities of organized criminal groups as well as the effects of those activities on security ... -
African Feminist Theology: Context, Focus and Sources
(University of Nairobi, 2020)This paper is based on a presentation by the author at the Yale Divinity School and the Overseas Ministries Study Centre (OMSC) seminar on Gender and Power in African Christianity held from 1st to 5th March 2010. It ... -
African Indigenous Knowledge versus Western Science in the Mbeere Mission of Kenya
(OASIS, 2023)This article sets out to explore the way in which Western science and technology was received in the Mbeere Mission of central Kenya since August 1912 when a medical missionary, Dr T.W.W. Crawford, visited the area. In ... -
African Theology in the 21st Century: Mapping Out Critical Priorities
(European Scientific Institute, 2018)There is a dialogue taking place in the area of African Theology; “do we call it African Christian theology or African Theology and how it relates to the African culture”? Depending on where one sits, any name will carry ... -
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 ... -
Afro-Biblical Hermeneutics in Africa Today
(Churchman Journal, 2010)By Afro-biblical hermeneutics, we mean biblical interpretations done in Africa especially by African instituted Churches. These hermeneutical works are typically African in character in the sense that they consciously or ... -
Afro-Pentecostalism and the Kenyan Political Landscape
(Swedish Missiological Themes (SMT), 2013)The history of modern Kenya that dates back to the 1880s when trading activities began in the coastal region of Kenya under the Imperial British East Africa (IBEA) company, and subsequent colonialism, has always depicted ... -
Black Theology of South Africa: Is this the hour of Paradigm Shift?
(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2007)The paper is based on the premise that the proposal for a shift of paradigm, from liberation to reconstruction, in the post apartheid South Africa and the post cold war Africa, was not received with great enthusiasm, among ... -
Centrality of Critical Thinking to Value Creating Education for Human and National Development
(Financing for Development, 2020)The transformational role of education in human endeavors cannot be overemphasized. The basic function of education is to develop, in a holistic way a well-balanced, self-functioning and responsive individual who can ... -
The challenge and reconstructive impact of African religion in South Africa today
(Ebscohost, 2008-09)This essay assesses the resilience and the reconstructive impact of African religion in post-apartheid South Africa, especially with regard to the religiosocial reconstruction of the society. It also seeks to demonstrate ... -
The challenge of money and wealth in some East African Pentecostal Churches
(2011-09)One of the most disturbing questions of our times in Eastern Africa, and Kenya in particular, is: has Christianity that began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, shifted to being material-minded? Are the modern ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Concept of Basic Human Rights in African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa and Jesus Is Alive Ministries
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Condom use and Culture of Life: The Roman Catholic Church Dilemma in the Wake of New HIV Infection
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2018)The World has devotedly committed to ending HIV and AIDS epidemic by 2030. However, the latest global data demonstrate among other challenges an increase in new HIV infections. In 2015 there was an increase of new HIV ... -
Consolidating Democracy in the Colonial Kenya (1920-1963): Challenges and Prospects
(Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences (JJEOHS), 2020)Kenya became a Crown Colony of the British government on 23 July 1920. Before then, 1895 to 1919, it was a protectorate of the British Government. Between 1887 to 1895, Scot William Mackinnon (1823-1893), ... -
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 ... -
The Contribution of the Anglican Church of Kenya to the Transformation of Kirinyaga District, 1910-2010
(Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020)Drawing on the theory of social capital, the initial attraction of Kirinyaga people to the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) mission centres were the schools, hospitals, demonstration gardens and artisan ... -
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 ...
