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Item Uhakiki wa visaasili katika fasihi simulizi: uchambuzi wa visaasili vya Wakikuyu(Egerton University, 0199-07) Nguru, Jane WanjiraItem The Philosophical and Ethical Implications of Friedrich Nietzsches Moral Philosophy on the Post-Colonial Kenyan Woman(Egerton University, 1993) Kiyaka, GloriaThis thesis tries to relate the philosophical ideas of Nietzsche to the historical background and cultural situation of women in Kenya. This ethic challenges the popular view of women as an abstract category, a view that has often obscured the nature and origin of the problems faced by women blaming the victims. This study was provoked by the realization that since 1963, there have been few any philosophical works in Kenya dealing specifically with women. The existing corpus of literature therefore tended to present a rather simplified and frozen picture of the nature and contradictions of women's exploitation, oppression and marginalization. Anthropological and sociological literature proved perceptive but they often lacked a philosophical dimension. The purpose of the study was therefore to discover whether particular attitudes served to perpetrate oppression and thereby defined the context within which men and women negotiated their individual identities and relationships with one another. Further the study sought to discover whether women in Kenya had been subjected to a variety of influences that induced the traits they exhibited. It was the purpose of the study to investigate whether the categories of sex differences had prevented the full development of human potentials and a richer culture, a culture rich in contrasting achieve this end the central hypothesis was that women are the main obstacles in the amelioration of their socio-economic restraints. The study was divided into five chapters. Chapter one was an introductory to the whole study. It provided the theoretical framework for the entire research. Chapter two provided an exposition of Nietzsche's moral philosophy and its fundamental tenets. Chapter three was a review of the condition of Kenyan women with particular emphasis on the question of sex roles. Chapter four focussed on whether Nietzsche's philosophy had adequately addressed the situation of women in Kenya. It also reviewed the ethical implications of this philosophy. The last chapter summarized the study and gave suggestions and recommendations on how to proceed in the analysis of the women question in Kenya today. We adopted an analytical conceptual method. We organized and conducted the study within specific historical perspectives. Our primary source was the library where we relied mainly on published and unpublished works including government policy papers, journals, newspapers, seminar papers, conference papers and some relevant books. Despite three main problems namely, inadequate literature, hostility and unenthusiasm exhibited by male interviewees and the death of one of my main supervisors, the study established that what has contributed to the marginalization of women in Kenya is much more varied and complex and cannot be looked at only against the background of women being their own impediment to the quest for liberation. Other crucial factors which cannot be overlooked include poverty, religious fundamentalism, neo-colonialism and class domination, poor governance and lack of political will, the mass media, lack of consistency in maintaining the momentum of the struggle, lack of meaningful political involvement in national political process, inadequate education, structural and institutional barriers and women-child exploitation. Kenyan history has proved that institutional differences inevitably lead to inequality and alienation. Therefore the study recommended that future research should contribute to a process of building a new self-image and societal image of women based on an egalitarian and liberation ethic. Lastly a complete bibliography was provided.Item Child first language acquisition of phonology: a case study of dholuo(Egerton University, 1995-10) Obiero, Judith AkinyiItem Child First Language Acquisition of Phonology - A Case Study of Dholuo(Egerton University, 1995-10) Obiero, Judith AkinyiItem The Philosophical and Ethical Implication of Fredrich Naetzsches’s Moral Philosophy on the Post-Colonial Kenya Women(Egerton University, 1996) Gloria, KiyakaItem Mifanyiko ya Kifonolojia Katika Kinyala cha Kakamega(Egerton university, 1996) Ngero, Siteti waItem The role of conjunctions in Kikamba conversational discourse(Egerton University, 1996-03) Ndambuki, Jacinta MueniItem Uhakiki wa visaasili katika fasihi simulizi:Uchambuzi wa visaasili vya wakikuyu(Egerton University, 1996-07) Nguru, Jane WanjiruItem Mbinu za Kimaigizo Katika Tungo za Abdilatif Abdala(Egerton university, 1996-09) Mwamzandi, Issa YusufItem A Critical Appraisal of African Philosophy(Egerton University, 1996-10) Muchocho, EvelyneThe debate on what African philosophy is, or is not, as repeatedly engaged philosophers from many years now. Oblivious of the changes taking place in the world today, this explains its slow progress and misunderstanding of its goal and purpose. This study has examined factors responsible for this situation, and as identified some of them as, lack of an adequate definition and methodology, for purposes of clarification, the study has distinguished between the narrower and broader meaning of the term philosophy. This study has also made a critical exposition of key methods in any philosophical venture namely, the scientific critical and comparative method in this respect we have learned that without a proper understanding of a subject's conceptual cognition, and methodology. it becomes difficult for it to respond to the challenges encountered, and this endangers its own survival. To achieve this aim this study recommends that African philosophy must have as its goals. The enhancement of intellectual activity it ought to be forward, cultivating independence of thought through critical and rational analysis. It ought to accept and encourage the process of change so as to attain new and broader ways of looking at reality, rather than resting on a set of theoretical assumptions or ideas about people and the universe from the foregoing, this study comes to the conclusion that African philosophy should be a continuous process giving new direction to human thought. Life is dynamic and so at problems of human existence hence the past and present ought to be critically studied for scholars to learn useful lessons from them and be able to forge out into the future.Item Vowel harmony in the Rogoro dialet of Ekegusii(Egerton University, 1996-11) Ongarora, David OgotiItem A study of tone and length in Lubukusu and Lulogooli dialects of Luluyia(Egerton University, 1996-11) Wamalwa, Job MwandaItem Vowel Harmony in the Rogoro Dialect of Ekegusii(Egerton University, 1996-11) Ongarora, David OgotiItem A philosophy analysis of the democratic patrice in Kenya(Egerton University, 1997) Njoroge, Josephine WairimuItem On the metaphysical aspect of Chomsky's account of language and the mind(Egerton University, 1998) Odiwa, Richard O.Item The concept of social change in the thought of Karl Popper and its philosophical implications to contemporary societies(Egerton University, 1998) Musasia, ReubenItem Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of english deictic expressionsCrosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of english deictic expressions: a case study of Gikuyu L1 speakers(Egerton University, 1998-05) Njeri, Lucy JaneItem The Concept of Social Change in the Thought of Karl Popper and its Philosophical Implication to Contemporary Society.(Egerton University, 1998-10) Musasia, ReubenItem The role of classroom input in the acquisition of WH-words(Egerton University, 2000-08) Kasire, BillyItem Teachers' and Students' Responses to Gender Themes in Texts-A Case Study of Two Secondary Schools in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya(Egerton University, 2001-10) Lanya Ben, Anicetus Nganyi