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Can Vernacular Radio Be Conflict Sensitive? An Analysis of Vernacular Radio Programming in Western Kenya
(Lexington Books, 2023)Vernacular radio in Kenya began in the pre-independence period in 1953 when the African Broadcasting Services was established to carry inclusive broadcast content to serve local Kenyan communities. However, it was not until ... -
Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory: Traversing Genres to Contemporary
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Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction
(Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2022)As the title, Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction suggests, this book seeks to restore the principal influence of Mother Nature in human life. Individual literary critics have ... -
Otherness and Pathology: The Fragmented Self and Madness in Contemporary African Fiction
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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures
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The Water Cycle
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Children with Disabilities in Kenyan Media: Lessons from the Abled Differently Programme
(University of Michigan Press, 2022)The chapter explores how the national broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Television (KBC TV), through its premier programme, Abled Differently, represents children with disabilities. Using media representation ... -
Career Development and Employee Value Proposition People Management Future
(2022-09-09)Career development has gained a lot of interest over time as organizations and employees attempt to match individual goals with organizational goals to maximize performance. Value proposition, in human resource management ... -
Tourism Adaptation Frameworks for Climate Change: A Review
(De Gruyter, 2021-07)Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries globally. It has continued to record an average of 3.5–4% despite the global challenges experienced in the last decade including the latest COVID-19 pandemic (UNWTO, 2020). ... -
Natural Ecosystem
(Elgaronline, 2022)Relating to human resource function, compensation (often referred to as pay, wage, salary) is the monetary and non-monetary reward offered to an employee in exchange of their contribution to labour. The contributions can ... -
Staycation motivation
(2022-07)Staycation is largely associated with “vacationing at home”. It is coined from the words: ‘stay’ and ‘vacation’. The blending combines initial segment of the first word “stay” with final segment of the other “cation”. The ... -
Maladaptation
(2022-07)Climate change remains one for the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century and beyond. Whereas the impact of climate change cuts across all sectors of the economy climate sensitive industries like tourism ... -
Bleisure typologies
(2022-07)The origin of tourism dates back to the end of the 18th century when the western tradition organized travels to support infrastructure and sight-seeing in the cities of ancient Greece and Rome. In the 21st century modern ... -
Compensation
(2022-07)Relating to human resource function, compensation (often referred to as pay, wage, salary) is the monetary and non-monetary reward offered to an employee in exchange of their contribution to labour. The contributions can ... -
Sustainable Adaptation
(2022-07)Sustainable-adaptation is defined as adaptation measures and strategies aimed to reduce vulnerability and enhance resilience of an individual, society or system without compromising social justice and environmental integrity ... -
Immovable cultural heritage
(2022-07)Cultural heritage expresses the way of life of a community over generations. It answers questions through research and archives of the remains of the past for scientific and historic purposes. Cultural heritage has survived ... -
Public Procurement Practice
(White Falcon Publishing, 2021)This book is a good source of information on public procurement. It is intended to be direct, easy to read, and practical in its presentation. This book will be found useful by those with little or no experience in public ... -
Climate Change and Immovable Cultural Heritage in Kenya: Impact and Response Strategies
(Springer, Cham., 2021)Immovable cultural heritages represent past human life that links the past, present, and future landscapes. Protection and preservation of authenticity and integrity of these built heritages is a major challenge in the ... -
An investigation into the factors influencing the graduation of women-owned micro-enterprises: A survey of women-owned micro-enterprises in Nyeri Town - Kenya
(GRIN Verlag, 2012-04)The importance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in contributing to job creation and output growth is widely accepted in both developed and developing countries, of particular interest is the process of expansion from ... -
Governance and Challenges of Wildlife Conservation and Management in Kenya
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021)Wildlife in Kenya is both a national resource and a key source of revenue for the government. Wildlife and tourism are interdependent and essential sectors in Kenya’s socio-economic development agenda. This chapter reviews ...
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