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Tapping Women's Resource Knowledge: The Marketing of Medicinal Plants by the Maasai in Gikomba Market, Nairobi
(1996-05)Throughout East Africa, Maasai women have always managed and utilized plant resources. Masaai women are not merely passive gatherers of plant products They actively manage and utilize plant resources. They decide where and ... -
Culture as Reflected in Language: A Comparison of English and Kiswahili
(1996-05-31)This study is a comparison of English Language and the Kiswahili Languages. Its aim is to demonstrate how each of these respective cultures have influenced the respective languages. Because there are many aspects of ... -
The Struggle to Print: The plight of the writer of fiction in Kenya
(1996-02-10)Every place on earth has a story to tell. It is left up to the humans who inhabit this globe to tell the story of nature from generation to generation. The people of Kenya are writing, and they have been years. Even though ... -
The Body Ornamentation of the Maasai: A Gender-Focused Study
(1996-02-10)The clips we in America get to see of Kenya are few. A selected slice of culture is delivered to our living rooms via television shows, our co1fee tables via the glossy pages of National Geographic, and our classrooms via ... -
Women in the Informal Sector of Takaungu
(1996-02)The main issues that were undertaken in the research concentrated on the economic power of the women in this town: how, when and why they began their business, where the profits of their labor went to, etc. As the research ... -
AIDS: Changing the Traditional Communal Values in Kenya
(1996)AIDS is not a new issue in the world and Kenya is no exception to this. Since the first case of AIDS was documented in 1981 this disease has sent the world into panic. The story in Kenya is much the same as in the rest of ... -
Nine Days in Garissa: Profile of the Town and Identification of Areas for Further Research
(1996)In a discussion of small towns in Kenya, where grassroots development is often attempted, effort must be made to identify both minute and major differences among towns and not perceive a small size and population as an ... -
Femininity and Feminism: The White Women of Kenya
(1996)In 1938 there was a white population living in Kenya of just 20,894, and it was not until the turn of the century that this population began to establish itself in Kenya at all. Thus, it seems quite remarkable to me that ... -
The Meaning Behind the Words: The Philosophy behind the Literature Department at the University of Nairobi
(1996-05-31)The study of literature is the study of the words which have been passed on from generation to generation. In a sense, it is the most truthful history a / student can study because the cardinal virtue of literature is ... -
The Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK)
(1996-05-20)The water we drink, the roads on which we travel, the machines we use, our electric light and power, the planes in which we fly, the cars we drive, ships, harbors, irrigation schemes, sewage disposal, radio, television, ...