Rongo University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Effects of Community Awareness on Public Participation of Women in the Development Planning Processes in Awendo Sub County
(Public Policy and Administration Research, 2022-05-24)Public participation is a principle that has been given prominence in the Constitution of Kenya (2010). Participation should imbue all public affairs and be promoted by both genders acting in public interest. The ... -
Working with Bioactive Substances from Medicinal Plants in Animals
(2020-07-20)Background: Working with bioactive substances from the medicinal plant requires various steps from plant extract preparation to the calculation for scientific evaluation and safe medicinal plant extract administration. The ... -
Semiotic Analysis of Gender Constructions among Facebook Users in Kenya
(2020-07-02)This study aimed at examining how male and female identities are constructed using visual images posted in particular Facebook Groups frequented by Kenyans. To this end, the theory of Visual Social Semiotics by Kress and ... -
Improved Livestock Breeds and Household Social Capital: The Case of Sahiwal Cattle Adoption among Isiria Maasai of Narok County, Kenya
(2020-11-11)The utilization of pastoral resources such as grasses, shrubs, water and salt-licks is an aspect social capital. However, with climatic and socio-economic changes traditional cattle production and livelihood outcomes ... -
Fighting HIV/AIDS through performing song: benga oral poetry in Homabay and Rangwe sub-counties in Homabay county, western Kenya
(2020-10-31)This study examines the relationship between the artist, the performance and the audience. It examines the audience's interaction with the oral performances and analyzes the impact that these performances have on the ... -
Construction of Feminine Identity through Metaphor in Facebook Discourses
(2020-08-08)One of the ways through which people construct their identities and others' identities is through use of conceptual metaphors. Conceptual metaphors are not just elements of language but are elements of thought as well and ... -
An Assessment of Audience Participation in Community Radio Programing, Production and Content Delivery
(2021-05-05)This study was underpinned by the democratic participant theory, which avers that audience participation in radio programing, production and content delivery plays a key role in awareness creation. The study applied the ... -
Relationship between goal setting and learners' perceptions of school academic environments.
(2020-12-07)The core mandate of educational institutions is to offer quality education to learners. As such academic goals are set to guide teaching and learning processes which is expected to take place in a conducive school environment. ... -
Learners' Perceptions of Principals’ Influence on Their Academic Behaviours
(Journal of Education and Practice, 2021-04-30)The purpose of the study was to assess learners' perceptions of the principals' influence on their academic behaviour. The study adopted cross sectional research design and proportionate random sampling to select 336 form ... -
A Pragmatic Analysis of Impoliteness Forms and Strategies in Ekegusii Arbitration Discourse, Kenya
(Accelerating the world's research., 2020-07-07)Politeness is a pragmatic concept that assumes mutually co-orperative behavior considerateness for others and polished behaviour in verbal interactions. Politeness guards against harming the hearer and speaker’s self-esteem ... -
Agroforestry and Household Food Security Status among Small-Scale Farmers in Kubo South and Samburu Wards of Kwale County, Kenya
(East African Journal of Forestry and Agroforestry, 2022-05-24)This study investigated the contributions of agroforestry to household food security in Kwale County. The study objectives were to determine the status of agroforestry, the status of household food security, and the ... -
Influence of Leadership Style on Organizational Performance of Primary Teachers Training Colleges in Lake Victoria Region of Kenya
(scientific research publishing, 2021-09-29)The purpose of this study was to investigate empirically the influence of prin cipals’ leadership styles on the organizational performance of primary teach ers training colleges in Lake Victoria Region of Kenya. Independent ... -
Effect of ridging and intercropping on sorghum productivity in arid and semi arid lands of eastern Kenya
(African crop science society, 2022-02-28)Soil moisture deficit is a key constraint to sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) productivity in arid and semi arid lands globally. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of ridging and sorghum bean intercropping ... -
Effectiveness of Nutrition Education on Nutrient Intake and Pregnancy Outcomes in Migori County, Western Kenya
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Employees’ Work Attitudes as a Psychological Contract on Organizational Commitment: Case of a Public University in Kenya
(International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning, 2022)It is imperative that senior managers, as change agents, have a good understanding of the psychological contract and how it influences commitment towards their job and their organization. This study explained the concept ... -
Soil moisture levels affect growth, flower production and yield of cucumber
(2022)Field trial to determine the optimum soil moisture level for enhanced performance of cucumber was conducted in polyethylene covered rain shelter for two seasons in 2017 and repeated in 2018. The research was conducted at ... -
The communicative adequacy of headlines from two online newspapers in Tanzania
(2021)The advent of internet has made it possible for people to read online newspapers rather than their print versions. It is expected that a newspaper headline should be optimised to meet the communicative expectations of its ... -
The Communicative Functions of Tanzanian Online Newspaper Headlines
(International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, 2020-09)This paper sought to analyse the communicative functions Tanzanian online newspaper headlines. A sample of Mwananchi and The Citizen dailies was obtained purposively from10 Tanzanian registered online newspapers. Also, ... -
Female characters’ resistance to masculine stereotypes in Asenath Odaga’s selected novels
(2021)The study explores resistance to masculine stereotypes as depicted in Asenath Odaga’s selected novels with the idea that the female characters resist and reject the masculine stereotypes resulting from the deep-seated ... -
Nafasi ya mwingiliano fani katika kukuza fasihi ya watoto
(2021-09)Katika juhudi za kusawiri uhalisia wa kijamii, fasihi aghalabu hulenga hadhira fulani kwa kutumia vigezo mbalimbali. Miongoni mwa vigezo hivyo ni kuwa kutegemea uzito wa maudhui na uchangamani wa msuko, kazi ya fasihi ...