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Bakari, Mohamed. "The Historical and Political Backdrop to Islamic Studies in Kenya." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): 70–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v31i3.285.

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This paper argues that the lack of serious attempts to incorporate Islamic studies in Kenya’s academic culture can best be understood by looking at the colonial and postcolonial policies toward university education there. The early missionary influence that shaped the nature of the indigenous educational system had a farreaching impact upon creating a culture of resistance among Muslims toward western education. In the postcolonial period, the new governments tried to create a level playing field for all of their citizens, regardless of religious orientation. But the colonial imapct had already left its mark on Muslims in terms of their visibility at the university level. The Kenyan government did not interfere in what academic programs should be prioritized at this level. But because Christians outnumbered Muslims in academia, their influence created a dearth of indigenous university-generated information and knowledge on Muslim institutions and society. This gap was left to foreign researchers to fill. As a result, Kenya has no indigenous Islamic intellectual culture. If this status quo does not change, Kenyan Muslims will remain vulnerable to foreign Islamist influences.

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Bakari, Mohamed. "The Historical and Political Backdrop to Islamic Studies in Kenya." American Journal of Islam and Society 31, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): 70–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v31i3.285.

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This paper argues that the lack of serious attempts to incorporate Islamic studies in Kenya’s academic culture can best be understood by looking at the colonial and postcolonial policies toward university education there. The early missionary influence that shaped the nature of the indigenous educational system had a farreaching impact upon creating a culture of resistance among Muslims toward western education. In the postcolonial period, the new governments tried to create a level playing field for all of their citizens, regardless of religious orientation. But the colonial imapct had already left its mark on Muslims in terms of their visibility at the university level. The Kenyan government did not interfere in what academic programs should be prioritized at this level. But because Christians outnumbered Muslims in academia, their influence created a dearth of indigenous university-generated information and knowledge on Muslim institutions and society. This gap was left to foreign researchers to fill. As a result, Kenya has no indigenous Islamic intellectual culture. If this status quo does not change, Kenyan Muslims will remain vulnerable to foreign Islamist influences.

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Amatsimbi, Herberth Misigo, and D. Neville Masika. "Pioneer Friends Harambee Schools in Western Kenya." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 1, no. 4 (December 31, 2013): 84–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol1.iss4.128.

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Friends African Mission (FAM) set forth an education department to train corps of African teachers- evangelists. The pioneer teacher-evangelists formed the basis of a new Luhyia elite that helped transform Luhyia society. And as education became more relevant in the emerging colonial structure, African Christians began to demand for more schools, learning in English and higher education, at a pace that neither the government nor the missionaries could match. Consequently, African Christians began thinking of establishing government and missionary supported independent schools. The case of the proposed Mbale School and the successive establishment of Chavakali day secondary school illustrate this point. The influence of the Chavakali experiment on secondary education in Kenya was deep and lasting, because it revealed what local self-help could achieve.

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Kimani, Gitonga P., James E. Otiende, and Augustine M. Karugu. "The Ideology of the German Neukirchen Mission and Its Implication on Education in Tana River County, Kenya 1887-1986." International Journal of Learning and Development 10, no. 3 (September 18, 2020): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijld.v10i3.17715.

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This paper examines the ideology of the German Neukirchen Mission and its implication on education in Tana River County, Kenya 1887 to 1986. Western education and Christianity in Africa were introduced by Christian missionaries from Europe as early as the 16th century but took root in around the mid-nineteenth century. In Tana River, several missionary organizations ventured in the area notably the Methodist Missionary Society (MMS), the German Neukirchen Mission (GNM), the Holy Ghost Fathers (HGF) and the Swedish Mission. They all gave up in the area due to a multiplicity of hardships save for the GNM which hang on and continued with evangelization and education. Consequently, there is need to look at the ideology of the GNM that influenced its resolve to persist in an area shunned by its contemporaries. An understanding of GNM’s ideology would come in handy in helping to improve education standards in the area bearing in mind that the same problems that bedeviled the region have to a large extent remained to date The study had three objectives which were: to identify the educational institutions opened by the GNM in Tana River County 1887-1986; to establish the hardships experienced by the GNM in Tana River County in the period 1887-1986 and to examine the ideology which influenced GNM’s activities in Tana River County in the period 1887-1986. The time frame was 1887 to 1986. This period covers the time the GNM arrived in Tana River to the year the first secondary school was established at Ngao i.e 1986. Ngao served as GNM’s mission base or station since the arrival of the missionaries in the region. The study was historical in nature and utilized a historical research design. Sources of data were both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources were mainly drawn from the Kenya National Archives (KNA) and schools and churches in Tana River. Document analysis was also utilized as a data collection method. The research instruments were interview schedules and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs). Respondents to these research instruments were retired educationists, civil servants and politicians, church leaders and village elders selected through purposive and snowball sampling techniques; all totaling 33. Collected data was analyzed through qualitative and quantitative methods while documents were analyzed through external and internal criticism. The study found out that the GNM established 31 primary schools 28 of which are still operational. The GNM missionaries experienced several challenges among them deportation during the two World Wars, frequent Somali attacks, floods, poor transport network, malaria infections and inadequate finances. The ideology was examined under five perspectives namely The Great Commission, Faith Mission, Reformed Theology, Social Darwinism and Socio-Political and Economic view point. The study recommends improvement of road and school infrastructure, investing more on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, opening of a secondary school wing in every primary school, delocalization of teachers and establishment of an institution of higher learning in the area.

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Joshua, Stephen Muoki, Edward Mungai, and David Musumba. "The Swedish Free Mission (SFM) Work in Kenya Between 1960 and 1984." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 43, no. 1 (July 13, 2017): 200–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/828.

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This article is a descriptive account of early missionary work of the Swedish Free Mission (SFM) in Kenya during the last part of the colonial era after national independence in1964. It attempts to reconstruct a memory of surviving local clerics and missionaries on their collaborative work in birthing a local church, the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK). It relies on 20 in-depth interviews conducted by the authors in 2014, as well as missionary records found in FPFK’s head office in Nairobi.

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Johnson, Thomas, and John W. Gerrard. "Africa Calling: A Medical Missionary in Kenya and Zambia." International Journal of African Historical Studies 35, no. 2/3 (2002): 617. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097701.

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Ethe, Kamuyu-Wa-Kang. "African Response to Christianity: A Case Study of the Agikuyu of Central Kenya." Missiology: An International Review 16, no. 1 (January 1988): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968801600102.

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This article explores the religious, cultural, and political dynamics of the Agikuyu response to Christianity from 1900–1950. The article is divided into five sections. In the first section the author briefly traces the theological ideas which prevailed in Europe in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how these ideas led to the rise of the Evangelical Missionary Movement. The second section deals with the initial contact made by Europeans and missionaries with the Agikuyu. The third section explores the nature of the Agikuyu religion and culture and the missionary response to that religion and culture. The fourth section discusses the Agikuyu response to missionary reaction to their beliefs and practices with particular reference to the Agikuyu initiation rite which was central to their belief system. The Agikuyu response led to the development of independent churches and schools. These churches and schools were later utilized to politicize the African masses on the evils of missionary Christianity and colonialism. In the fifth section the author briefly analyzes the three groups which emerged out of this Christian response. He concludes that the Karing'a group can be considered as a good case study of how churches in Africa can develop a new theology which encompasses African ontological understanding of God, man, and the universe.

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Okello, Belindah Aluoch, and Dorothy Nyakwaka. "Missionaries’ Rivalry in Kenya and the Establishment of St. Mary’s School Yala." African and Asian Studies 15, no. 4 (December 21, 2016): 372–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341082.

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This article discusses the establishment of St. Mary School Yala, a school begun by the Mill Hill Missionaries as an incentive to attract potential African converts to Catholicism. The school was the outcome of fierce rivalry among missionary groups to spread their denominational faith. Provision of formal education became a popular method of enticing potential converts when colonialism took root as Africans then began flocking mission stations in search of this education to survive the colonial economy. Data for this study was collected from the Kenya National Archive, oral interviews, and from published works on missionary activity in their early years of settlement in Kenya. The study has applied Christian Apologetics theory in analysing the missionaries’ conflict which initiated the establishment of St. Mary’s School; and Dahrendorf’s Theory of Social Conflict in examining conflicts between missionaries, Africans and the colonial state which steered the later development of St. Mary’s School.

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Maxon, Robert M. "The Devonshire Declaration: The Myth of Missionary Intervention." History in Africa 18 (1991): 259–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172065.

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It has long been accepted that the Devonshire Declaration of 1923 represented a clever compromise by which the British government was able to extricate itself from a longstanding controversy surrounding Indian claims for equality with European settlers in Kenya through a statement that African interests were to be paramount in that colony. There can be no denying that the doctrine of African paramountcy proved an effective solution to the Colonial Office dilemma caused by attempting to balance the conflicting claims of the Kenya Indians and settlers. Yet another widely-stated view, that the doctrine of African paramountcy and other specific details included in the declaration were provided to the Colonial Office by British missionary and church officials, specifically J. H. Oldham and Randall Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury is, quite simply, a myth. The Colonial Office had no need for Oldham and Davidson to devise a settlement for it; officials there had decided the main principles that they would use in making a policy statement long before Oldham entered the Indian question in May 1923. What the Colonial Office officials actually got from the missionary leader, in addition to useful phraseology, was the vital support they needed to sell the policy announced in the White Paper to influential public opinion in both Britain and India. This was a most significant achievement, and it is time to recognize Oldham's contribution for what it was rather than perpetuate an interpretation that has no basis in fact.

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Poizat, Bruno. "Missionary mathematics." Journal of Symbolic Logic 53, no. 1 (March 1988): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002248120002898x.

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Le plus souvent, la logique reste une discipline à la périphérie des mathématiques, qu’elle observe de l’extérieur, sans y pénétrer vraiment. C’est un discours sur les mathematiques qui ne dit rien au mathématicien; il n’y reconnait pas son activité favorite, ni ne croit qu’elle puisse avoir une influence sur sa pratique.L’illustration la plus extrême de cette tradition, ce sont les “reverse mathematics” de Harvey Friedman, qui connaissent le succès que l’on sait. Je veux parler ici d’une tendance toute opposée, secrétée par les développements contemporains de la théorie des modèles, qui promet des positions beaucoup plus directes.Elle se cristalise autour de l’étude des groupes stables; l’apparition de groupes n’a rien d’inattendu dans un contexte mathématiquement signifiant: un groupe, c’est ce qui garantit une structure non-triviale (ceci n’est pas un simple argument terroriste: il y a des théoremes pour le soutenir); quant à la stabilité, c’est une hypothèse de controle structurel, au large champ d’application, et qu’on pourra dépasser quand seront résolus les problèmes posés dans le cadre stable.

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Chiko, Wilson Mungoma. "The social influence of Islam in Kenyan society since 1963." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683274.

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Nunow, Hussein Abdi. "Parental Influence on HIV Vertical Transmission in Kenya." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5511.

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Mother-to-infant vertical transmission of HIV usually occurs during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. It is the third leading cause of transmission of HIV after sexual intercourse and blood transfusions. In 2008, 12 million women aged 15 years and above were anticipated to be living with HIV in countries within Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, the association between parental HIV knowledge, attitudes and risk reduction practices, and HIV vertical transmission in Kenya were explored. The health belief model was used to help understand and interpret the findings. For this quantitative study, data were collected via surveys from 212 participants in 3 HIV clinics in Kenya. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Around 45% of respondents lacked knowledge on key aspects of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV particularly on expressing and heat treating milk from HIV positive mothers to make it safe for their babies. About 65% of Participants had awareness towards Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Logistic regression showed no association between socioeconomic factors and parental knowledge on MTCT of HIV. Logistic modeling found that there was association between attitude and MTCT, revealing that attitude increased the likelihood to influence MTCT. Being married was associated with reduced risk of MTCT of HIV. The overall results indicated gaps in knowledge and information packaging. The potential positive social change implication of this study is that factors related to HIV vertical transmission identified in this study might be utilized to develop and implement HIV prevention strategies to reduce HIV vertical transmission and decrease associated morbidity and mortality among this vulnerable population.

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Ngatia, Ndiritu. "The influence of Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) on Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009436.

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In Kenya, like in many developing countries, Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) have become the main focus for achieving the much-needed social and economic development and alleviating poverty. However, their development has been hampered by lack of access to appropriate financial and related services. Micro financing has been seen as a viable alternative to providing financial services to entrepreneurs in the MSE sector. The focus of this study was to explore the role of MFIs in the development of MSEs and to see if there are ways in which this role can be enhanced to better support the growth of MSEs. Such enhancement would contribute greatly towards government efforts to foster social-economic development. The results of the research indicate that generally, MFIs appear to have positively influenced the growth of MSE in Kenya and have potential to further influence MSE growth. There were however a number areas that if paid attention to could enhance this influence. These include the need for MFIs to offer supportive services as opposed to merely credit facilities to MSEs and the need for government intervention by putting in place a suitable Act to regulate the operations of MFIs.

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Ochwada, Hannington. "Negotiating difference the Church Missionary Society, colonial education, and gender among Abetaaluyia and Joluo communities of Kenya, 1900-1960 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3297112.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2007.
Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0713. Adviser: John H. Hanson.

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Konuche, P. K. A. "Influence of light environment on indigenous tree seedlings in Kenya." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11008.

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Attempts to restock large areas of exploited forests in Kenya have been hampered by inadequate understanding of the ecological requirements of indigenous tree species. In particular, very little is known about the responses of these species to different levels of light. This study, therefore, examined the significance of shade and light in regeneration of some important tree species. The species studied were Cordia africana Lam., Vitex keniensis Turill, Markhamia lutea (Benth.) K. Schum. and Olea capensis L. Artificial shading experiments were carried out in the nursery using seedlings of C.africana and V.keniensis. The effects of different shade levels were compared to full sunlight under low and high nutrient regimes. The response of seedlings transferred among different light environments was also examined. The effects of different levels of light quality (R:FR ratios) were tested. In a forest clearing, seedlings of the four species were grown under artificial shading and their responses were compared to those grown under full sunlight. The influence of deep canopy shade on survival and growth in seedlings of the four species was also determined. In the nursery, seedlings of C.africana and V.keniensis maintained positive relative growth rates at irradiance level of 19% of full sun and their growth was enhanced by increasing irradiance. The supply of nutrients at high level also enhanced the growth. Seedlings transferred between light environments acclimated within a month. Acclimation to increase in light availability was faster than acclimation to decrease. Although acclimation was mainly physiological, biomass was allocated in favour of shoots and roots when seedlings were shaded and exposed respectively. The supply of nutrients at higher level had no effects on the acclimation process.

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Zhang, Tao. "Media and modernity : the influence of the missionary press in late Qing dynasty China." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410531.

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The aim of the thesis is to trace the contours of the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late 19th century. The study analyses the subsequent transformations this brought about in Chinese culture and society - its transition to modernity - and explores some of the consequences of this for the situation the Chinese media face today. I attempt to show that the development of modern print journalism - from the missionary press to the Chinese 'gentry-scholars' press - was an integral part of the rise of modern Chinese society. Drawing on theoretical approaches provided by western theorists - Anthony Giddens, Harold Innis, Antonio Gramsci and, most significantly, JUrgen Haberrnas - the study firstly builds a theoretical framework for the investigation of the missionary press's contribution to the shaping of early modernity in China. As a prelude to the analysis of the impact of the western missionary press, the study next sketches the history of the imperial press and the related social structure of traditional China. Then, the picture of an emergent modern Chinese press is drawn, focusing on the case study of 'WGGB', the most influential missionary journal in the late 19th century. With these historical data, the study applies the theoretical framework to scrutinize the profound influences of the missionary press from four perspectives: a new sense of time-space and cosmology; innovation in printing technology; a changing sense of national identity; and the rise of 'the scholars' public sphere'. However the study does not assume the missionary press to be the sale agency of modern transformation for the Chinese press and the 'scholar-gentry' class. Rather, it probes the role which Confucian tradition played in China's transition to modernity. A critical assessment is also offered to deal with the controversies and complexities aroused by the notion of 'cultural imperialism' on the missionary enterprises, including the press, in the 19th century. Finally, the study concludes that the 19th century missionary press, though it produced enormous influences upon Chinese society and particularly the gentry scholars, failed to establish the liberty of the press as a sustainable institution. Over a century, Chinese intellectuals are still seeking for a free press in the tug between Chinese tradition and western modernity.

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Mutizwa-Mangiza, Shingai Price. "Political party institutionalization : a case study of Kenya." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013258.

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This thesis explores the nature and extent of political party institutionalization in Kenya. More specifically, it focuses on the four dimensions of party institutionalization, namely organizational systemness, value-infusion, decisional autonomy and reification. The study itself is largely located within the historical-institutionalist school of thought, with particular emphasis on the path dependency strand of this theoretical framework. However, the study also employs a political economy approach. It recognizes that the development trajectory of party politics in Kenya did not evolve in a vacuum but within a particular historical-institutional and political-economic context. The thesis advances the notion that those current low levels of party institutionalization that are evident in almost all parties, and the relatively peripheral role that they have in Kenya's governance can be traced to Kenya's colonial and post-colonial political history, the resource poor environment and the onset of globalization.

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Murimi, Sammy. "Factors that keep Africans from entering the missionary vocation an evaluation of perceptions and views of Christian nationals in three churches in Nairobi, Kenya /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Kurgat, Alfred Kipchumba. "Socio-economic factors that influence farmer participation in agroforestry in Ainabkoi and Moiben Divisions, Kenya." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53058.

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Thesis (MScFor)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kenya's economy depends largely on agriculture for growth and development and yet only 20% of the total land area lies in high potential farming areas that support 80% of the total population and 50% of the total livestock in the country. Intensified cropping as a result of the high population concentration on high potential areas has put pressure on land and other resources to an extent that potential productivity of these areas has been degraded. Loss of soil nutrients through soil erosion has caused decreased food production, deterioration of croplands and, siltation and eutrophication of water bodies. Over reliance on forest resources by the communities in the study area has led to deforestation as well as the general disturbance of watershed areas and its functions. There is need therefore to find alternative ways of retaining and/or restoring lost fertility through community participation so as to increase food production. The aim of this study was to investigate the socio-economic factors that influence farmer participation in agroforestry activities in Moiben and Ainabkoi Divisions of Uasin-Gishu District. Data was collected using participatory methods. One set of data was collected using a questionnaire that had both open and closed ended questions. Through random sampling, a total of 300 farmers were interviewed. Additionally, key informants from various government departments were interviewed. The other set' of data was obtained through resource assessment in a forest adjacent to the communities in the study area. This study found that the majority of the farmers had not practised agroforestry despite many being aware of it. Socio-economic problems that hindered them from adopting and practising agroforestry technologies included lack of forest extension services as a reliable source of information about suitable tree species, and how to plant and best locate them within the farm, gender-related issues hindered vulnerable groups, particularly women and children and lack of secure land tenure was a disincentive to those farmers who live on trust land and the married sons who have not been allocated land by their parents. Farm labour during peak farming period was found to scarce due to farmer prioritisation of farm activities. Farmers mentioned that trees occupy land that is already becoming scarce and only give returns in the long term yet farmers need immediate benefits. Forest extension services were ineffective due to scarcity of resources that would enable officers to discharge their duties efficiently. Resources within the gazetted forests were being over exploited since that was the only source with cheaply available wood and non-wood products. It was also found in this study that the majority of the farmers faced environmental problems that included soil erosion, decreased crop yields as well as shortage of wood products. In the future, affordable extension techniques need to be employed in order to reach the farmers. The current regulations that govern private land ownership should be streamlined so as to enable all family members participate in decision-making on utilisation of land. There is need to incorporate agroforestry adult literacy classes as well as in local school curricula. Being multi disciplinary, agroforestry can be spread to the farmers by involving stakeholders at every stage. The current crop of extension agents should be re-trained or should be attending in-service courses regularly. This could transform them into facilitators. Further research should be done on farmers' attitude towards trees, cheaper techniques of disseminating information on agroforestry should be investigated while the current extension techniques should be evaluated for their strengths and weaknesses.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kenia se ekonomie is grootliks afhanklik van landbou vir groei en vooruitgang. Slegs 20% van die totale beskikbare landbougrond in hoe-potensiele landbou areas ondersteun 80% van die totale bevolking en 50% van die totale lewende hawe. Hoë bevolkingsdigtheid vereis intensiewe oesverbouing wat weer hoë druk op landbougrond en ander bronne plaas. Dit het tot gevolg dat die moontlike produktiwiteit van hierdie areas agteruit gaan. Die verlies van voedingstowwe as gevolg van gronderosie het verlaagde voedselproduksie, agteruitgang van landbougrond en toeslikking van waterbronne tot gevolg. Die algehele afhanklikheid van gemeenskappe op bosprodukte het tot ontbossing en algemene versteuring van opvanggebiede gelei. Dit is dus noodsaaklik om alternatiewe maniere te kry om die grondvrugbaarheid te behou en/of te herstel deur gemeenskapsamewerking en om sodoende voedselverbouing te verhoog. Die doel van die studie is om ondersoek in te stel na die sosio-ekonomiese faktor wat die landbouer se samewerking in Moiben en Ainabkoi gebiede van Uasin-Gishu distrik beïnvloed. Die inligting is ingesamel deur deelnemende metodes te gebruik. 'n Vraelys met keuse- en ander soortige vrae is gebruik om die inligting in te samel. 'n Totaal van 300 landbouers is deur toevallige keuring ondervra asook segsmanne van verskeie regeringsdepartemente is vir inligting genader. Nog inligting is verkry deur hulpbronopnames in die gebied aangrensend tot die gemeenskappe van die studiegebied. Hierdie studie het gewys dat die meerderheid van die landbouers nie agrobosbou toepas nie alhoewel hulle wel daarvan bewus is. Sosio-ekonomiese faktore wat hulle verhinder om agrobosbou toe te pas sluit die gebrek aan lanboudienste as betroubare bron van inligting oor geskikte boomspesies en boomaanplantingmetodes in. Ook het geslagverwante probleme, kwesbare groepe veral vroue en kinders, gehinder. 'n Tekort aan gewaarborgde grondbesit vir landbouers wat op trustgrond werk en die getroude seuns aan wie nog nie grond deur hulle ouers toegeken is nie, was terughoudende faktore. Plaasarbeid was ook nie standhoudend nie. Landbouers het ook gevoel dat bome waardevolle en skaars grond gebruik en slegs voordele op die lange duur gee terwyl die landbouers die voordele dringend moet kan benut. Landbouvoorligtingsdienste was nie effektief nie as gevolg van die skaarsheid van hulpbronne wat personeel kan help in hulle verpligtinge. Voedsel- en ander bronne uit die bosreservate word uitgeput aangesien dit die enigste goedkoop bron is. Die studie het ook bevind dat die meerderheid landbouers omgewingsverwante probleme soos erosie en swak oeste asook 'n tekort aan houtprodukte ondervind. Voortaan behoort bekostigbare landbouvoorligtingstegnieke gebruik te word om landbouers te bereik. Die huidige bepalings wat privaatbesit reguleer behoort vereenvoudig te word sodat al die lede van een gesin 'n aandeel kan hê in die besluitnemingsproses oor die gebruik van die grond. Daar is ook 'n behoefte aan volwasse-geletterdheidsonderrig vir landbouers as deel van die skoolprogram. Aangesien agrobosbou verskeie gebiede raak, kan landbouers in enige stadium betrek word. Die huidige groep personeel behoort heropgelei te word of behoort gereeld indiensopleiding te ontvang. Dit kan hulle tot fasiliteerders bevorder. Verdere navorsing is nodig om landbouers se houding teenoor bome te verander en om goedkoper landbouvoorligtingstegnieke vir agrobosbou te vind. Huidige landbouvoorligtingstegnieke behoort ook ondersoek te word om die sterk - en swakpunte te bepaal.

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Mbuthia, Lydia Muthoni. "The influence of service performance measurement on service delivery: expectations of university students in Kenya." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021064.

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The demand for university education has increased at a higher rate than the resources available for universities to offer the required services. In Kenya, the demand for university education has continued to rise with university enrolment increasing tremendously over the last four decades. This growth calls for an investigation to find out the impact of this expansion on service delivery in universities. Kenya has thirty-nine fully-fledged universities that have been accredited by the Commission for University Education (as at 31st March 2013). Twelve others are operating with interim letters of authority (ILO). This development has created competition amongst universities and, as a result, necessitated the development of strategies to ensure survival in this changing environment. The review of existing literature on this subject has established that service delivery is a service differentiator and therefore could be utilised by universities to gain a competitive advantage and therefore enhance their overall performances. Based on this background, this study sought to establish the influence of service performance measurement on service delivery in relation to the expectations of university students in Kenya. Secondary sources were used to formulate a theoretical model of the influence of service performance measurement on service delivery that guided this study. The theoretical model indicates that non-academic aspects, academic aspects, reputation, programme issues and access factors may influence service delivery at the university. These five dimensions were used in the study as the independent variables of service delivery at the university. The outcomes of service delivery at the university were identified as student expectations, student satisfaction, student loyalty and student retention in the theoretical model; these were treated as dependent variables. Hypotheses were formulated that proposed relationships between the independent variables and service delivery. Hypotheses in respect of relationships between service delivery and the outcomes were also developed. A quantitative research approach was adopted to empirically evaluate the relationships between service delivery and the variables in this study. Data for the study was collected through the use of a structured self-administered questionnaire that was distributed to 720 university students in Kenya. Six hundred and thirty useful survey responses were received from fifteen universities. The data collected was subjected to factor analysis and multiple regression analysis to test the hypothesised relationships between the variables and service delivery. Descriptive statistics were also obtained from the raw data. The findings of this study indicate that non-academic aspects, academic aspects and access factors have positive and significant influence on service delivery in Kenyan universities. The quality and adequacy of academic, entertainment and sports facilities together with increased accessibility to services by students are important factors that influence service delivery at a university. The university students would like to be treated with respect and courtesy by academic and administrative staff during these service encounters. The empirical results of the study also reveal that student perceptions of service delivery impacts positively on student expectations, student loyalty and student retention related to convenience as well as student retention related to quality assurance.

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Books on the topic "Missionary influence in Kenya"

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Muriuki, Godfrey. United States educational influence on Kenya. [Nairobi]: University of Nairobi, Dept. of History, 1995.

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Africa calling: A medical missionary in Kenya and Zambia. London: Radcliffe Press, 2001.

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Kenya today-breaking the yoke of colonialism in Africa. New York: Algora Pub., 2005.

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Post-colonialism and the politics of Kenya. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 1996.

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Colonial inscriptions: Race, sex, and class in Kenya. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

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Faith received, lived and given: History of Consolata Missionary Sisters in Kenya (1913-2013). Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2013.

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The saffron mission: A historical analysis of modern Hindu missionary ideologies and practices. Delhi: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1999.

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Fishers of men: The missionary influence of an extended family in Central Africa. [s.l.]: Brethren Archivists & Historians Network, 2003.

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Mwakikagile, Godfrey. Ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001.

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From pilot to pastoral Bishop: Memoirs and reflections of 53 years of missionary life in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: Pauline Publications Africa, 2014.

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Künzler, Daniel. "The Influence of Colonialism and Donors on Social Policies in Kenya and Tanzania." In Global Dynamics of Social Policy, 79–107. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38200-1_4.

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Parsitau, Damaris Seleina. "Soft Tongue, Powerful Voice, Huge Influence: The Dynamics of Gender, Soft Power, and Political Influence in Faith Evangelistic Ministries in Kenya." In Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa, 159–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74911-2_9.

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Ogendi, George M., Rose K. Morara, and Nicholas Olekaikai. "The Influence of Westernization on Water Resources Use and Conservation Among the Maasai People of Kenya." In Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change, 137–47. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1774-9_10.

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de Aquino, André Rodrigues, André Aasrud, and Leticia Guimarães. "Can Forest Carbon Finance Influence Land Tenure Security in Project Areas? Preliminary Lessons from Projects in Niger and Kenya." In Advances in Agroforestry, 231–46. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1630-8_13.

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Bossong, Georg. "The influence of missionary descriptions of far eastern languages on western linguistic thought: The case of Cristoforo Borri, S.J. and Tommaso Campanella." In Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 123. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sihols.111.13bos.

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Odendo, M., G. Obare, and B. Salasya. "Farmers’ Perception of Soil Fertility Depletion and Its Influence on Uptake of Integrated Soil Nutrient Management Techniques: Evidence from Western Kenya." In Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa, 1055–59. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2543-2_107.

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Ojuok, Irene, and Tharcisse Ndayizigiye. "Women Participation in Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration for Climate Resilience: Laisamis, Marsabit County, Kenya." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 2755–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_152.

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AbstractDespite the fact that land degradation is both natural and human-induced, it is proven that human activities pose greatest threat and these include unsustainable land management practices such as destruction of natural vegetation, overcultivation, overgrazing, poor land husbandry, and excessive forest conversion. Other than reduced productivity, land degradation also leads to socioeconomic problems such as food insecurity, insufficient water, and regular loss of livestock which exacerbate poverty, conflicts, and gender inequalities that negatively impact mostly women and children especially the rural population. Increased efforts by governments, donors, and partners toward reversing land degradation through community-led, innovative, and effective approaches therefore remain to be crucial today than never before!Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is a proven sustainable land management technology to restore degraded wasteland and improve depleted farmland. This approach has been tested across Africa with high success rates. In spite of the huge local, regional, and global efforts plus investments put on promoting FMNR across different landscapes among vulnerable communities for climate resilience, the implementation of such projects has not been as successful as intended due to slow women uptake and participation in the approach. In order of ensuring women who are mostly at highest risk to impacts of climate change enjoy the multiple benefits that come along with FMNR, the success rate for uptake of FMNR especially among women need to be enhanced.This chapter seeks to explore drivers and barriers of women participation in uptake of FMNR for climate resilience. Findings will be shared from a 3-year project dubbed Integrated Management of Natural Resources for Resilience in ASALs and a Food and Nutrition project both in Laisamis, Marsabit County, Kenya. The program interventions on natural resource management for livelihoods seek to integrate gender and conflict prevention and prioritize sustainable, market-based solutions to address the persistent challenges. The chapter discusses findings, successes, and lessons learned from the actions and the requirement to position women as vulnerable groups at the center of initiatives designed to address the climate change crisis. The outcome of this chapter will enhance gender-responsive FMNR programing through awareness creation, effective organization/project designs, strategies, and plans together with advocacy and policy influence. Limitations of the study and main recommendations for future programing in similar contexts are also shared.

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CHEPKEMOI, MARY. "The Africa Inland Mission and the Education for Girls among the Kipsigis of the Kericho and Bomet Counties, Kenya, 1900-1945." In Missionary Education, 255–71. Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt9k296.12.

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Morton, Christopher. "The poet, the missionary, and the sacred spears." In The Anthropological Lens, 196–224. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812913.003.0008.

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Chapter 8 explores Evans-Pritchard’s Kenyan Luo fieldwork and photography, and in particular the fascinating insight it provides into the role of Walter E. Owen (1879–1945), a significant missionary figure in the region. As Evans-Pritchard notes, his survey was made possible by the local knowledge and networks already established by Owen, and the cooperation of local Luo people came about largely out of their high regard for him. The chapter argues that what is most striking about Evans-Pritchard’s record of his relatively short six-week visit to Nyanza in 1936 is his readiness to photograph Luo people as he found them, mostly in Western dress. The photographic record provides a counterpoint to his written account of the visit, Luo Tribes and Clans (1949), which pays almost no attention to colonial influences on Luo social life or political organization.

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"THE INFLUENCE OF AID." In Aid and Inequality in Kenya, 153–91. Routledge, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203840160-14.

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Conference papers on the topic "Missionary influence in Kenya"

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Kiula, Mwirigi, Esther Waiganjo, and John Kihoro. "INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP ORCHESTRATION ON E-READINESS ACCESSION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA." In International Technology, Education and Development Conference. IATED, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2017.1853.

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Macharia, Jimmy, and Charles Maroa. "Health management information systems (HMIS) implementation characteristics that influence the quality of healthcare in private hospitals in kenya." In 2014 IST-Africa Conference & Exhibition. IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/istafrica.2014.6880631.

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Jessani, Nasreen S., Caitlin E. Kennedy, and Sara C. Bennett. "041: INVESTING IN RELATIONSHIPS AND STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGEMENT: THE CAPACITY OF ACADEMIA TO EFFECTIVELY INFLUENCE HEALTH POLICY IN KENYA." In Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health 2015. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-forum2015abstracts.41.

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Peter Gitonga, Ngari, and Ying Zhang. "Assessing the Influence of Project Manager's Cultural Intelligence (CQ) on Project Team Dynamics-A Case of China-Kenya Projects." In 2016 1st International Symposium on Business Cooperation and Development. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/isbcd-16.2016.78.

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Klutse, Senanu Kwasi. "The problem of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa." In The Challenges of Analyzing Social and Economic Processes in the 21st Century. Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem Gazdaságtudományi Kar, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/casep21c.9.

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A wide range of policy-related variables have a persistent influence on economic growth. This has consistently maintained the interest of economists on the determinants of economic growth over the years. There is consensus however that for countries to grow sustainably, a lot of stall must be placed on higher savings rate as this makes it easy for such countries to grow faster because they endogenously allocate more resources to inventive activities. Due to data difficulties in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) it is nearly impossible for one to consider important variables such as accumulation of knowledge and human capital when analysing growth sustainability. Studying four lower middle-income countries in SSA – Ghana, Republic of Congo, Kenya and Lesotho – this study tests the hypothesis of sustainable growth by using a Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) model to examine the relationship between savings, investment, budget deficit and the growth variable. The results showed that savings had a significant but negative relationship with the GDP per capita (PPP). A Granger Causality test conducted showed that savings does not granger cause GDP per capita (PPP), the HDI index, deficit and investment. This leads to the conclusion that growth in these countries are not sustainable. The study recommends that policy makers focus on the savings variable if these countries will want to achieve sustainable growth.

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Community Land Rights in Kenya: A Summary of 2020 Analyses. Rights and Resources Initiative, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/lwgg3510.

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This summary highlights Kenya-specific findings of three RRI studies conducted in 2020. This document will explain what the findings of these three studies mean for Kenya, and aims to equip local communities and civil society organizations (CSOs) with data to advance their advocacy work to influence future reforms and help the government, donors, private sector actors, and conservationists make informed decisions.

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