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Prevalence, incidence and risk factors of epilepsy in older children in rural Kenya.
No full textBACKGROUND: There is little data on the burden or causes of epilepsy in developing countries, particularly in children living in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: We conducted two surveys to estimate the prevalence, incidence and risk factors of epilepsy in children in a rural district of Kenya. All children born between 1991 and 1995 were screened with a questionnaire in 2001 and 2003, and those with a positive response were then assessed for epilepsy by a clinician. Active epilepsy was defined as two or more unprovoked seizures with one in the last year. RESULTS: In the first survey 10,218 children were identified from a census, of whom 110 had epilepsy. The adjusted prevalence estimates of lifetime and active epilepsy were 41/1000 (95% CI: 31-51) and 11/1000 (95% CI: 5-15), respectively. Overall two-thirds of children had either generalized tonic-clonic and/or secondary generalized seizures. A positive history of febrile seizures (OR=3.01; 95% CI: 1.50-6.01) and family history of epilepsy (OR=2.55; 95% CI: 1.19-5.46) were important risk factors for active epilepsy. After the second survey, 39 children from the same birth cohort with previously undiagnosed epilepsy were identified, thus the incidence rate of active epilepsy is 187 per 100,000 per year (95% CI: 133-256) in children aged 6-12 years. CONCLUSIONS: There is a considerable burden of epilepsy in older children living in this area of rural Kenya, with a family history of seizures and a history of febrile seizures identified as risk factors for developing epilepsy
IBPP Research Associates: Kenya
No full textThe article discussed - It\u27s Goodbye to Personality Cults and Songs of Praise, by Wambua Sammy - was posted on the December 30, 2002 - January 5, 2003 issue of The East African (Kenya). Copyright permissions were not available for posting the article in Scholarly Commons, but the article is available online as part of The Mail Archive.
In the article, the author discusses and criticizes personality cults as they are associated with government in Kenya
Never be silent : publishing & imperialism in Kenya, 1884-1963
No full textSocial communications are central to any social struggle. There is a sizable body of literature from other countries on the use of oral medium, newspapers, books and other forms of communications being used as tools for organising against a powerful enemy, as a training ground for cadres and for clarifying and developing revolutionary theory, ideology, organisation and practice. All this ensures a greater unity among those resisting oppression and exploitation. Thus revolutionary and liberation forces of Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China, and in Vietnam had developed theories and practices of revolutionary publishing as part of their revolutionary work. This has also been the case during anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles in Africa, but very little of this has been systematically documented as an aspect of revolutionary communications policy and practice. While the
colonial communications systems have been reasonably well documented, the resistance communication systems remain largely undocumented and ignored. This book is an initial attempt to document this dynamic communications process in Kenya with its external struggles against colonialism and its complex internal struggles with overlaying divisions of race and class, Kenyan and foreign peoples. The main theme emerging from this experience is that people struggling to change their society always find ways of establishing their own system of communicating with the people they lead
and by whom they are led. Their mission of revolution, of change, of peace, of social and economic justice requires that they should never be silent. This was well understood and practised by the liberation forces in Kenya. They
were never silent
CONSTRUCTION RISKS AND PERFORMANCE OF KENYA URBAN ROADS AUTHORITY PROJECTS IN CENTRAL REGION OF KENYA
No full textAbstract: The construction industry in Kenya and the world at large is subject to more risks and uncertainty than many other industries. The process of delivering a project from inception, completion and finally into use is complex. The complexity of the work involved in construction activities, therefore, makes construction projects more predisposed to risk events. In times of increasing global competition, the success of projects becomes more decisive to an organization’s business performance. However, many projects still present delays, changes in their scope, failures and premature termination. The skills that enable firms to cope with uncertainty and gain performance through risk management are imperative. The study aimed at examining the influence of construction projects on performance of Kenya Urban Roads Authority projects in central region of Kenya i.e., Muranga, Kiambu, Kirinyaga, Nyeri, and Nyandarua counties. The study identified technical risks, client related risks, financial risks, and socio-political risks as the construction risks. Descriptive survey design was adopted where 217 respondents (engineers and contractors) working with Kenya Urban Roads Authority projects in central region of Kenya were targeted. A sample of 140 respondents was drawn and administered with questionnaires. both descriptive and inferential analysis was done. The response rate was 80%. The study inferential statistics established that constructions risk significantly influence performance of Kenya Urban Roads Authority projects in central region of Kenya. Specifically, technical risks had the highest influence on performance, followed by Client related risks, then financial risks. Socio-political risks had the least influence on performance of Kenya Urban Roads Authority projects in central region of Kenya. All the variables explained 76.5% of performance of Kenya Urban Roads Authority projects in central region of Kenya. The study recommends implementation of project risk management practices to turn the risks in to opportunities. The study also recommends a similar study to identify the other construction risks that explain the variation of 23.5% of performance in Kenya Urban Roads Authority projects in central region of Kenya.
Keywords: Kenya Urban Roads Authority, Construction Risk.
Title: CONSTRUCTION RISKS AND PERFORMANCE OF KENYA URBAN ROADS AUTHORITY PROJECTS IN CENTRAL REGION OF KENYA
Author: Festus Kibet Kiprop, Dr. Muchelule Yusuf
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, October 2022 - March 2023
Page No: 84-90
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Published Date: 22-October-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7239032
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Tea Industry: Focus on Kenya
No full textAbstract: Tea is an important commodity in East Africa. Kenya is the major tea producer, followed by Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. The growth in the tea sector has led to development of Kenya’s economy. Tea sector in Kenya is dominated by smallholders along with investments by private companies. East African Tea Trade Association (EATTA) was formed to develop the tea trade in Africa. Kenyan tea sector is also facing challenges, such as lack of infrastructure for transport, restrictions in government policies, climate change and the competition to Mombasa tea auction from Dubai auction centre.
Keywords: Tea, Kenya, Mombasa auctions, China, India, CTC, Orthodox.
Title: Tea Industry: Focus on Kenya
Author: Srinivas Anand Sriram
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, October 2022 - March 2023
Page No: 208-211
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Published Date: 15-November-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7323440
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Determinants for Use of Certified Maize Seed and the Relative Importance of Transaction Costs
No full textThe rising world prices for major tradable staples such as maize have been a concern for sub- Saharan countries such as Kenya which are maize deficit countries. Maize is a major staple food for over 80 percent of Kenya’s population. Kenya relies on maize for up to 40 percent of its dietary energy supply and is accordingly searching for ways to increase maize productivity. Maize productivity has been rising in the last decade manly as a result of the use of improved germplasm and fertilizer. However, the proportion of farmers using these technologies is low and the aggregate productivity in maize is low compared to other countries and its potential. Previous studies on input adoption have often assumed the existence of perfect supply and product markets, tending to ignore the important but significant role played by institutions as well as the role of transaction costs associated with market exchange. This study makes use of qualitative information from institutions and actors in seed input value chains as well as quantitative information collected from a sample of 150 farmers, in the Moist Transitional Maize Zones of Kenya. A two stage regression model was applied to analyze determinants of adoption and factors affecting degree of adoption of certified improved maize seed. The results show that as farmers adopt certified seeds, they incur higher transaction costs than non adopters, rural infrastructure, social capital such as membership in groups and trust play an important role in the decision of whether or not to use certified seed.Crop Production/Industries,
Teachers’ perceptions towards inclusive education of Intellectually challenged learners in public primary schools. A case of Eldoret East district – Kenya.
No full textEducation is a tremendously important lever for ensuring competitiveness and prosperity in the
age of globalization. Around the globe, governments are eagerly comparing their educational
outcomes to the best in the world with the aim of identifying and learning from the top
performers, rapid improvers and learners with challenges. This is popularly known as inclusive
education. It involves having people work together for a common goal. In Kenya schools have
been encouraged to the pressure of inclusion to embrace integration to all learners including
those with intellectual challenges. The problem is that, despite the adoption of this policy in the
Western region, performance remains dismal, with most schools hardly realizing the basic
objective of inclusion. The objectives of this study were therefore, to establish the influence of
gender on teacher’s perception towards inclusive education of intellectually challenged learners,
determine the influence of special needs education training on teacher’s perception towards
inclusive education of intellectually challenged learners, and finally, it established the teacher
related challenges with regard to inclusive education of intellectually challenged learners. This
study was anchored Fishbein and Ajzen, 1995 theory of reasoned Action and guided by a
conceptual framework between and among the variable of study as conceptualized by the author.
The study adopted descriptive survey design, questionnaires and interviews guide were used in
the process of data collection. A sample of 85 respondents were selected using simple random
sampling technique from teachers of integrated public primary schools (IPPS) with intellectually
challenged learners in Eldoret East District, Kaptagat Division Kenya who participated in the
study. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and one way (ANOVA). The study findings
were significant to the school administrations and education policy makers in that it would
enable them to refocus on removing barriers to inclusive education and develop more ideal
progression towards inclusion, including Massive social mobilization, community education and
perception change programmes to encourage acceptance of persons with challenges into
mainstream society and schools, and build structural systems to facilitate inclusion. It is
recommended that: there is need for more recruitment of female trained teachers in special needs
education since they are more receptive to inclusion, the government of Kenya through its
relevant departments must urgently take up extensive training in inclusive education to induct the
teachers in the general philosophy of mechanics of inclusion, and finally there is need to
restructure and enrich the school and classroom environment to be as “least restrictive” as
possible to effectuate the philosophy of inclusion
Plasmodium infection, anaemia and mosquito net use among school children across different settings in Kenya.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To investigate risk factors, including reported net use, for Plasmodium infection and anaemia among school children and to explore variations in effects across different malaria ecologies occurring in Kenya. METHODS: This study analysed data for 49 975 school children in 480 schools surveyed during a national school malaria survey, 2008-2010. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to investigate factors associated with Plasmodium infection and anaemia within different malaria transmission zones. RESULTS: Insecticide-treated net (ITN) use was associated with reduction in the odds of Plasmodium infection in coastal and western highlands epidemic zones and among boys in the lakeside high transmission zone. Other risk factors for Plasmodium infection and for anaemia also varied by zone. Plasmodium infection was negatively associated with increasing socio-economic status in all transmission settings, except in the semi-arid north-east zone. Plasmodium infection was a risk factor for anaemia in lakeside high transmission, western highlands epidemic and central low-risk zones, whereas ITN use was only associated with lower levels of anaemia in coastal and central zones and among boys in the lakeside high transmission zone. CONCLUSIONS: The risk factors for Plasmodium infection and anaemia, including the protective associations with ITN use, vary according to malaria transmission settings in Kenya, and future efforts to control malaria and anaemia should take into account such heterogeneities among school children
The challenge of feminism in Kenya : towards an Afrocentric worldview
No full textThis study deals with African women's literature, and specifically creative writing by Kenyan women, in the context of feminism and Afrocentricity. In the words of Obioma Nnaemeka (1995) critics of African women's literature have tended to rename, misname or silence women's voices in an attempt to make them fit into a feminist! Afrocentricity either or mould. This thesis argues that when attention is paid to African women
themselves, and the cultures from which and within which they write, it is clear that they embrace both feminism and Afrocentricity. By feminism I refer to African women's vision and activism for sexual equality and women's liberation while by Afrocentricity I am thinking of their commitment and pride in their African cultures and
traditions.
The first chapter argues that Kenyan women, in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial times, have been active and voiced in their stance against oppression of any kind. In the second chapter, I explore the relationship between feminism and Afrocentricity in a wider sense. I pay attention to the ways in which the two concepts have manifested themselves in Africa and her Diaspora as well as in the western world. In chapter three, domestic violence, rape, poverty, and a gender insensitive legal and judiciary
system are the dominant issues of concern to short stories writers from Kenya. In the fourth chapter, Ogot is seen as a liberal Afrocentric feminist in her call for African
women to create room for themselves within African systems of thought and practice. Chapter five, on Oludhe Macgoye, argues that to be Afrocentric is cultural rather than
racial. In Chapter six Rebeka Njau and Margaret Ogola are seen as Afrocentric while Tsitsi Dangarembga and Alice Walker are seen as Eurocentric. The thesis concludes that feminism in practice is not necessarily an occidental phenomenon. An African woman writer can be both feminist and Afrocentric
Preparing for national school-based deworming in Kenya: the validation and large-scale distribution of school questionnaires with urinary schistosomiasis.
No full textOBJECTIVE: School questionnaires of self-reported schistosomiasis provide a rapid and simple approach for identifying schools at high risk of Schistosoma haematobium and requiring mass treatment. This study investigates the reliability of school questionnaires to identify such schools and infected children within the context of a national school-based deworming programme in Kenya. METHODS: Between November 2008 and March 2009, 6182 children from 61 schools in Coast Province, Kenya were asked by an interviewer whether they had blood in urine or urinary schistosomiasis (kichocho), and their results were compared with results from microscopic examination of urine samples. Subsequently, in 2009, a school-based questionnaire survey for self-reported schistosomiasis was distributed by the Ministry of Education to all schools in Coast Province, and its results were compared against results from the parasitological survey. The questionnaire survey results were linked to a schools database and mapped. RESULTS: Prevalence of self-reported blood in urine was lower among girls than boys among all ages. The use of a 30% threshold of reported blood in urine was both highly sensitive (91.7%) and specific (100%) in identifying high (>50%) prevalence schools in Coast Province. Questionnaires were however less reliable in diagnosing S. haematobium infection in individuals, particularly among young girls. Comparable levels of reliability were observed when the questionnaire was distributed through the existing education systems and administered by class teachers. CONCLUSIONS: The results confirm that blood in urine questionnaires can be reliably used to target mass treatment with praziquantel at national scales. The mapped results of the Ministry of Education survey serve to describe the spatial variation of urinary schistosomiasis and identify schools requiring mass treatment
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