Arts and Social Sciences

Description

All research in the arts and social sciences.

Publications

• A Comparison of Information and Communication Technology Application in NEPAD and non NEPAD schools in Kenya.
• Perception of quality assurance and standards officers about their competence: Implication for training.
• Sheng: A case of language in the making.
• Ethics and Corporate Business Practices: A Freaky Paradox.
• The Dynamic Life of Dance as a cultural Phenomenon: The CAse of Ramogi Dance of the Luo of Kenya.
• Social status of Ohangla musicians with their music and dance.
• Gender, Religion and Human Rights: A Kenyan Perspective.
• The Role of African Religion in Conflict Prevention.
• FAre Teologia Nel Constesto Della Globalizzione: Prospective Africane.
• The belief and practice of divination among Swahili Muslims in Mombasa District,Kenya.
• Educational Consequences of orphanhood and poverty in western kenya
• The Trajectory of Ethnic politics in Kenya:Colonial times to the present.
• Folklore and the Causes of Poverty Among the Luo of Western Kenya: An Analysis of Myth, Legend and Development. Maseno University Journal,
• Kiswahili as a Modicum in Solving Developmental Issues in Bungoma District, Kenya. International Journal of Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (IJDMRR). 2(1). (In press) (University of Hertfordshire)
• Lexical Representation of Political Participants: Newspaper Reporting of the Run-up to the 1997 Kenyan General ElectionJournal of Intra-African Studies (in press). (Oxford Journals}
• "What is Traditional South African Music?Looking at Ezodumo's Maskanda"Kally(ed) South african labour Bulletin
• "Social Status of Ohangla Musicians with their Music and Dance"in Onkware,K.(ed) International Journal of Disaster Management and Risk Reduction.
• Tradition,Identity,and Performance
• Images of the Poor in the Mass Media.
• Priorities and Strategic Options for Sustainable Health CAre Financing in Southern Sudan.
• Factors Influencing Candidates' Preference Choices in Music Practical performance at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
• Negotiating Compromises in the Teaching and Learnng of Musics of the World Cultures: An African Perspective.
• Challenges Facing Music Student Teachers During Teaching Practice: The Case of Maseno University BAchelor of Education(BEd) Music Students.
• 'My voice is nowadays known', Okatch Biggy, Benga and Luo identity in the 1990s.
• The Origin and Development of Ohangla Instrumental Ensemble and significance in formal Traditional Education among the Luo of Siaya and Kisumu Districts , Kenya.
• The Relationship between Science and Religion.
• The theology of inculturation and the African Church
• The Role of Taboos in the Management of Natural Resources and Peace-building: A case study of the Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya.
• Societal Beliefs, Scientific Technologies and HIV/AIDS in Africa: Facing the Challenge of Intergrating Local Communities in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
• Ethnic Minorities Wedged up in Post-election Violence in Kenya: A Lesson for African Government.
• The factors militating against the education of girls: A case study in Kenya.
• An investigation of sin and evil in African cosmology.
• An examination of co-existence of religion and politics
• An analysis of the rites of passage and their relation to Christianity.
• Are Human Beings Playing God Through Technological Reproduction?
• Belief in the spirits of the dead in Africa: A philosophical interpretation.
• Daniel arap Moi and the politics of HIV and AIDS in Kenya
• The language of conflict: The coverage of global terrorism news in the Kenyan mass media (1998-2005)’. In Communication in an Era of Global Conflicts: Principles and Strategies for 21st Century Africa. (M’Bayo, R.; Onwumechili, C.; Bala, M., Eds), Lanham:
• Patients claiming their rights: an analysis of utterances from a Kenyan hospital. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Journal,(Linguist Society of Southern Africa).
• Naturalized spelling errors in the writing of university students: a life-long misfortune?’ In Language Teacher Research in Africa, (Makalela, L., Ed). Alexandria: TESOLI(SBN: 9781931185547)
• Pragmatics of literary political discourse, Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS),
• 'What can we say when the English used has gone so high-tech? Institutionalised discourse and interaction in development projects in a rural community in Kenya. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 4,
• Conflict Resolution in African Folklore.
• A Friend to the Last
• What is sheng?
• What is Sheng?
• Structure and perfomance of formal retail market for bamboo products in Kenya.
• Growth performance of bamboo in tobacco - growing regions in South Nyanza, Kenya.
• Beads(tigo/ngaga) dance of the Luo.
• Widows' Christologies: A Preliminary feminist analysis of Abanyole widows' Christologies considering kinship, gender and the power of naming
• Social Stratification in Kenyan Urban Ministry
• Intergrating HIV and AIDS in the Teaching of AFrican Religion.
• Women, Youth and Development in the Era of HIV and AIDS: Intergrating Issues in the Curriculum.
• Christian diversity and its implications to the people of Vihiga District, Kenya.
• Psychological factors influencing promotion of male circumcision for HIV prevention in a non-circumcising community in rural western Kenya
• Ethical dilemmas of socila science research on AIDS and orphanhood in western kenya.
• Deteriorating conditions of hosting refugees: A case study of the Dadaab complex in Kenya.
• Multilingual discourse practices in community development in Nyanza Province, Kenya.
• A multimodal analysis of HIV/AIDS discourse in rural kenyan community.
• Encoding polar questions in Dholuo
• Prospects of kiswahili as a regional language in a socioculturally heterogenous East Africa
• Face threats in expressing patients rights: The case of nurse-client encounters in selected hospitals in Nyanza Provice, Kenya
• The unequal encounter between the cross examiner and witness in a judicial cross-examination: The case of Goldenberg Commission aof enquiry in Keny
• Evaluating Language Revitalization in Kenya: The Contradictory Face and Place of the Local Community Factor
• Rhythmic Proposition: The SEductive Power of Rumba Dance Among the Luo of Western Kenya
• The adequacy in Cv Phonology in syllabifying African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili Loanwords in Ateso
• Some Reflections on the perfomance of the court interpreter in Kenya.
• Kiswahili and Sustainable Environmental Management in Bungoma District, Kenya.
• Masclunizing diseased bodies:Exploration of HIV/AIDS in a Kenyan Literary text.
• Mimi Sijui.
• Our Maize have Turned into Onions:The African Language Situation.
• Uchahchu Huja Baadaye
• Peace and the Kenyan School English Curiiculum: An Examination of four primary school course texts.
• Mimba Ingali Mimba na Hadithi Nyingine
• Mganga wa Tanga
• Investigating language and ideology:A presentation of the ideological square and transitivity in the editorials of three Kenyan newspapers.
• Establishing Credibility in Cooperate Website: A Linguistic Approach
• Transitivity as a Tool for Ideological Analysis
• Between Dusk and Dawn: Grouping Roots of Political Consciousness in Alex La Guma's "A Walk in the Night."
• The Pragmatics of political disclosure
• Is English a threat to Indigenous Kiswahili dialects?
• Mabadiliko katika umbo la ushairi na athari zake katika ushairi wa Kiswahili.
• "Television as aTheatre for the Promotion of African Christian Worship Music" in An Anthology of Christian Music Worship Styles in Kenya,The Permanent Presidential Music Commission(PPMC),Government Printer,Nairobi Kenya.
• A Historical Survey of the intergration of traditional music in formal school music education in Kenya.
• Women Liberation and Challenges in Religion.
• Gender Bias and Community Roles in Kenya.
• Practices of relatedness and Reinvention of 'duol' as a network of care for orphans and widows in western Kenya.
• Vulnerability to HIV infection for female aolescent orphans in western Kenya.
• Usawiri wa wahusika katika hadithi fupi za kiswahili.
• Mielekeo ya wanafunzi kuhusu lugha ya Kiswahili: Mfano wa mikoa ya Pwani na Nyanza nchini Kenya
• Jungu Kuu Limeisha Ukoko?Undelezaji wa Kiswahili kupitia uundaji wa msamiati
• Foreign or African Languages as Media or Instruction
• Nilimwamini Baba.
• Muyaka bin Haji:Mzalendo au Ndumu la Kuwili?
• Kiswahili,usambazaji wa habari na uhamasishaji wa umma kwa ajili ya maendeleo
• The Role of Dholuo demonstratives and adverbs in discourse deixis
• Investigating language and ideology:A presentation of ideological square and transitivity in the editorials of three kenyan newspapers
• "Globalization,Postmodernity and Music Cultures:An African Discourse "Angawa.F.et al(eds) Maseno University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences(MUFASSS) Journal Maseno University
• Community Perceptions of factors affecting The Provision of Quality Emergency Obsteric Care in Siaya and Bondo Districts.
• Mass Media and NAtion Building since 1963
• Change, Innovations and Continuity in the Performance Practice of Traditional Luo Instrument Genres in Contemporary Popular Settings
• Same-Sex Marriage Debate.
• The Contribution of Muslim Scholars to Science.
• Understanding Science and Personhood.
• The Cocept of Human Being in a Christian World View
• Kiswahili's Gains in Kenya's Higher Education: Implications for Teaching in Foreign Universities
• Growing up and sexual maturation among the Luo of Kenya: Removing barriers to quality education
• Kiswahili na Vyombo vya Habari Nchini:Makosa katika Matumizi ya Lugha
• Language and Nationalism
• It happened in Somanet
• The Drama Festival
• Grandmothers Visit
• The Wedding.
• L'oral et l' oralite dans une classe de FLE au Kenya.
• Experience hors de l'ecole.
• "Her Master's Voice Female Representation in Africa music "Angawa .F.et al(eds)Maseno University Faculty of arts and Social Sciences(MUFASS)Journal Maseno University.
• Role of education in the advancement of agricultural projects for food security and poverty reduction in Kenya.
• Assessment of livelihood assets and strategies among tobacco and non-tobacco growing households in South Nyanza region, Kenya.
• The Concept of aesthetics as applied to and in the musical experiences of the Luo.
• Text-melody relationships: Translation of European Hymns Into Dholuo.
• Prospects and Challenges of Teaching and Learning Musics of the World's Cultures: An African Perspective.
• Performance Practice of traditional music genres in contemporary Kenya:The case of Orutu.
• Game songs and folktale songs as teaching resources in musiical art education of a Luo child
• Cultural responsive music education: developing an appropriate music cuririculum for kenyan institutions of higher learning
• Changing perceptions of wife inheritance in the Bukusu Community of Bungoma District, Western Kenya.
• Language and Regional Integration.
• Medicine Made out of Myths at the Nile River.
• Establishment of African Languages Research Centre at Maseno University
• "The Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation and Kenyan Popular Music:An Identity Crisis" in Akuno,E.A (ed)East African Journal of Music Issue no 1 Emak Music Services
• "The Congolese colonisation of kenyan Popular Music" in Akunos,E,(ed.) Proceedings of the East African Symposium on music Education 'Refocusing Indigenous Music in Music Education,Kenyatta University .Emak Music Services
• "Reclaiming Kenya's Popular Music:A solution to a Dilemma" in Herbst,A.(ed)Emerging solutions for Musical Arts Education in Africa PASMAE publication.Cape Town.
• "Popular Music in Kenya ." in the Encyclopedia of popular Music of the world vol. Vi,African and the Middle East Shepherd ,J.Horn,D and Laing,D.(eds).The Continuum International Publishing Company.
• Role of Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) on Human Health – A Review
• Effect of dairy development programmes on production, consumption and marketed surplus of milk in Vihiga District.
• Celebrating Easter in an African Community
• The Question of Evil in Society: The Augustinian Answer.
• Kenya as a multi-religious society.
• Gendering inculturation in Africa: A discussion of three African women theologians' entry into the inculturation scene
• Feminist theology in West and East Africa: Convergence and Divergences
• Religion: The Sharper of Economicrends.
• Religion and Politics in Kenya : A Christian Perspective.
• Emile Durkheim's contribution to the Sociology of Religion
• The PLace of Women in Religion.
• An African discourse on the family - An interpretation of Ephesians Chapter 5 and 6.
• Change and continuity in kin-based support systems for widows and orphans among the Luo in western Kenya
• Sifa na Maana ya HAdithi Fupi
• Les apports lexicaux du francais au Kiswahili.
• "Local, Traditional,and Global Aspects of Contemporary African Music in South African Television " in Thorsen S.M(ed)Sounds of Change-Social and political Features of Music in Africa,SIDA studies no.12 Goteborg Sweden.ISBN 91-586-8415-8.
• "Interrogating Tradition in Contemporary African Music:The Case of Ezodumo"in Tafuri,J(ed)Research For Music Education the 2004 ISME Research Commission Seminar at Las Palmas,Spain
• Efficacy of antioxidants in human health African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND)
• "Across Borders and Cultures:Africa's Voice in Kwaito"Proceedings of the Roundtable Session I and II on Globalisation and National Culture published as a CD-ROM edited by Eiliv Olsen.Media Centre-Bergen University College,2003
• Impact of dairy programmes on nutritional status of women and preschool children in Vihiga District.
• "Music Video as a Contituency for Music Education Research"in Welch G.F and Folkestad,G.(eds) A World of Music Education Research.The 19th ISME Research Seminar,Gothenburg,Sweden,August3-9,2002
• "Africa on Black and White"a review symposium on music and the Racial Imagination."By Radan,R. and Bohlman P(eds.) for the Journal-The World of Music Vol44(3)edited by Boiko,Martin
• "Music Education in Africa:A media Approach "In Van Niekerk,C(ed)Pasmec 2001 Selected Conference Proceedings from the Conference held in Lusaka,Zambia,21-25 August 2001
• "Ethnomusicology:Technology ,'Development' and Tradition at Crossroads."Symposium on Ethnomusicology Number 16,University of Namibia,Windhoek.ILAM,Grahamstown.
• "Music Video as a Contituency of Research in Contemporary African Music "in DeNando,G.(ed) Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education Research Council for Research Council for Research in Music Education,University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaig
• "Conceptualising African Popular Music:A Kenyan Experiment " in Sheldon,D.A(ed) Bulleting of the Council for Research in Music Education Council,University of ILLINOIS,Urban-Champaig ISSN 00109894 No.147
• "Conceptualising African Popular Music:A kenyan Experiment."Seminar proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seminar on Research in Music Education July 8-14 at the University of Utah,Salt Lake City,USA.
• "Africa Awake:Celebrating a coming of age of african Music in the New Millenium" In Taylor,M and Gregory,B(eds.) Music of the Spheres ISME 2000 Conference proceedings,Edmonon,Alberta,Canada.ISBN 0-7731-0407-0
• "(Ed)1996 Abwao B.&Nyachieo D.Revision Music for Primary Teacher Education,East African Educational Publishers,Nairobi.
• The semantics of peace and the role of the print media in the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya. African Media Review Journal, 27(2). (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA))
• Using language rights to evaluate the knowledge of court interpreters in Kenya. Annals of Humanities and Development Studies