Abstract The Youth‚ who form a critical mass of the Kenyan population‚ are unemployed. Efforts have been made to alleviate the problem of youth unemployment in Kenya. However‚ these strategies and efforts have come under intense scrutiny in the recent years with the ever rising unemployment rates. This research set to critically examine the existing strategies and efforts to alleviate unemployment among the urban youth with the view to make recommendations on how best the strategies can be implemented
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Events: Recent efforts to reform the management of elections in Kenya received a major setback following the malfunctioning of electronic transmission of votes‚ putting the credibility of the presidential poll on trial. The system‚ based on the acquisition of one-way phone lines from telecoms operator Safaricom connected to servers at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s national tallying centre at the Bomas of Kenya‚ was a key measure in improving the credibility of the presidential
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Indigenous people had and still have lasting effects on how imperialism affected them. It took a part of their history‚ heritage and a part of who there were when the europeans came to Canada. The main ideas that I’m going to talk about are; assimilation on the indigenous people and what strategies the europeans used to assimilate them‚ eurocentrism and how it affected their lives than and how it’s still affecting them in the present day and the last idea I am going to focus on is how imperialism
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CHOLERA AND TYPHOID OUTBREAKS IN KENYA IN THE PAST 40 YEARS Cholera is an infection of the small intestine caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholerae.Its main symptoms are watery diarrhoea and vomiting.Vibrio cholerae are free-living organisms found in fresh and brackish water. Cholera infections are most commonly acquired from drinking water in which the Vibrio cholerae is found naturally or into which it has been introduced from the faeces of a symptomatic or asymptomatically infected person. Another
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Postmodernism has been described as a new version of Western cultural imperialism. Discuss the relationship between postmodernism and ’postcolonialism’. Postmodern theory been applauded as liberating‚ even democratising‚ in its rejection of absolutism and in its refusal to accept the dictates of hierarchy and certainty. It calls for the abandonment of the modernist qualities of objective truth‚ centralized knowledge‚ totalising explanations and determinacy . Rather‚ postmodern theory advocates
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CHALLENGES AFFECTING THE GROWTH OF SMALL SCALE ENTERPRISES IN KENYA (A Case study of Wajir Soko Mjinga Market) A Research proposal Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for the Award of Diploma in Business Administaration to the Mount Kenya University JULY 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENT I take this occasion to thank the Almighty GOD for blessing me with his grace. I extend my sincere gratitude to my MKU supervisors for giving the right guidance while
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The Effects of Neo-Colonialism as presented in Motorcycle Diaries and A Small Place Neo-Colonialism is a very powerful and controversial issue in the world today. Countries such as the United States‚ Great Brittan and France still greatly profit over the countries they left as independent years ago. This paradox is created by the mother country exerting economic and political influence on the former colonies; allowing them to still profit from these third world countries without actually occupying
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http://www.worldbank.org. (last accessed on 16/02/11) World Economic Forum (2003) “African Food Security: A Role for Public-Private Partnership.” Yamano T. and Jayne T.S (2002)‚ Measuring the Impact of Prime-age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya. Staff Paper 2002-26. Department of Agricultural Economics‚ Michigan State University‚ East Lansing Publishers‚ USA
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3. British colonialism and its effects on the shaping of Pakistani culture The culture of a nation (a complex structure of unsaid dos and don’ts) is determined by their emotive sensitivities and intellectual development at a given stage in history. The form of social order and its institutions are a reflection of this culture. Pre-British India was on a declining path vis-à-vis these factors. Hence conditions were ripe for the invaders to encourage and establish a culture of collaboration. And
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The story of the Caribbean and the colonial period has been explored by many authors‚ who have focused their studies in evaluating the impact of colonialism in the lives and societies impacted during the eighteen and nineteen centuries. In Three Ancient Colonies‚ the anthropologist Sidney Mintz examines the differences and commonalities of Jamaica‚ Haiti‚ and Puerto Rico‚ to explore their development as colonies and look deeper into the development of economic systems and the influence these had
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