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Kenya’s Water Act (2016) : real devolution or simply the ‘same script, different cast’
(Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019)The debate surrounding the enactment of Kenya’s Water Act (2016) and its relationship with its predecessor, the Water Act (2002), brings to mind the lyrics of a contemporary pop duet, ‘Same script, different cast’. As the ... -
International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 16: Leases
(ICPAK, 2016-04)IFRS 16: Leases was issued on 13 January 2016; it replaces IAS 17 Leases. The new Standard is effective from 1st January 2019: early application is permitted, provided the recently issued revenue Standard, ... -
Antecedents and consequences of customers’ complaining behaviour in Kenya using social media
(2017)This study seeks to investigate the nature, antecedents and consequences of customer complaining behaviour (CCB) using social media in retail industry in Kenya. The study will use a multi–method research ... -
Legal and policy frameworks for climate-friendly energy generation in Africa : energy security for future development
(Macmillan Education Namibia, 2016)Energy security is the sine qua non in stabilizing democracy and economic growth, and in reducing poverty and the impacts of climate change. This writing investigates energy security and renewable energies in sub-Saharan ... -
Perspectives on energy security and renewable energies in Sub-Saharan Africa - Practical opportunities and regulatory challenges
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Fatherhood among the Maasai
(2015-09-07)Papa and yieyo are Maasai words for father and mother respectively. A father is the family head, protector, provider, main decision maker among the Maasai. The Maasai, a traditionally nomadic pastoral tribe in Kenya and ... -
Array-based schemes for group screening with test errors which incorporate a concentration effect
(Elsevier, 2015-06-04)Group screening is widely used as an efficient method for identifying samples or factors from a large population that are in some sense active. The focus in the present paper is on screening blood samples for infectious ... -
Customary law jurisprudence from Kenyan courts: implications for traditional justice systems
For a long time, the jurisprudence emanating from Kenyan courts has treated African customary law as an inferior source of law in comparison to formal laws. Consequently, certain customary practices and traditions that can ... -
Sustainable development and equity in the Kenyan context
Equity, particularly intergenerational and intragenerational equity, is central to the concept of sustainable development. The rhetoric of equity has been incorporated in sustainable development instruments and is already ... -
The role of the Kenyan diaspora in economic development: a theoretical review
The importance of the role that the diaspora play in economic development is indisputable. The Government of Kenya has taken cognizance of this fact and has put a number of measures to ensure that the diaspora are ... -
Social media use in Kenya: an impetus or a deterrent to socio-economic development?
Social media is conceived as a tool for interaction within the information society. With many social media platforms globally, the importance of social media in today’s socio-economic development cannot be disputed. It ... -
The operational environment and contraints for NGOs in Kenya :strategy for good policy and practice
The qualitative and quantitative growth of NGOs in Kenya over the last quarter of the 20th century has been enormous. For instance, NGOs registered a cumulative growth of over 100% between 1977 and 1987. 1 By 1995 ... -
Religion and society
The peoples of the Kenya Coast follow a variety of religious traditions. Whereas Islam has been present in the region for centuries, the beginning of Christianity in modern times only goes back some 150 years. African ... -
Rural madrasas of the Southern Kenya Coast, 1971-92
The past two decades in Kenya have witnessed the opening of a large number of new Muslim educational institutions (madrasas), in rural as well as urban areas, in places where Muslim communities predominate and in places ... -
Islamization in the Coastal region of Kenya to the end the Nineteenth Century
The first Muslims to arrive in what is now Kenya came by sea more than a thousand years ago. Whether they were Arabs or Persians, and exactly where they came from, may never be known. Present ... -
Bee diversity and floral resources along a disturbance gradient in Kaya Muhaka forest and surrounding farmlands of coastal Kenya
Kaya forests are rich in biodiversity and endemism along the coastal ecosystems of Kenya. The role of bees in pollination service that maintains native plant populations and resilience of such critical ecosystems ... -
Management of University research output in Digital era : a case of Strathmore University
Today scholarly information is being produced in digital format unlike few years ago when scholars used to present their work in a hard format.Kanyengo (2009) notes that creators of knowledge and publishers of knowledge ... -
The coastal hinterland and interior of East Africa
Although Islam has been present on the East African coast for more than twelve centuries (chapter 12), in assessing the extent of Islamic influence we need to distinguish between the Swahili towns, centers of Islam on or ...
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