Essays on Kenya

Every day, innocent, decent Kenyans who want to work and survive on an honest living are set up by snakes (powerful men) biting the little they have managed to scrap together against all odds. They steal in plain sight. No need to name them, you...

Kenya is undergoing massive infrastructural development for achievement of its development blue-print, Vision 2030. To meet the country’s infrastructure needs, the Kenyan government is in the course of implementing expansion and modernisation of our roads to enable sustained economic growth, development and a transport network...

In East Africa, there is a territory known as the Great Rift Valley. It is in this Great Rift Valley, where the world’s most predominant long separation sprinters originate from, Kenya. In the previous three decades, sprinters from Kenya have basically commanded the game of...

Introduction Kenya is a multi-ethnic society with currently forty four tribes, the Makonde people and the Hindu having been recognized as ethnic communities. The most dominant tribes being the Agikuyu, Kalenjin, Abagusii, Akamba, Abaluhya and the Luos. In its history, it has experienced numerous episodes...

Colonial History: Modern-day Kenya was first colonized by the Imperial British East Africa Company as the British East Africa Protectorate on 1st July 1895.Under British rule, Kenya was subject to harsh social, economic, and political policies. Racial discrimination protected under the law was also widespread....

INTRODUCTION Literature plays an important role in preserving and upgrading the African languages, through its various creative forms in poetry, criticism, and novel that developed a stunning development in recent years, as well as the theater in its various forms and short story and the...

Traveling can help improve many problem solving skills and also the overall brain health. Traveling to other destinations can be very fun and a very good experience. People like to travel because it gets them away from the same old boring life they do every...

The Government of Kenya has been implementing various Social Protection Programmes across the country to cushion Kenyan Citizens from extreme poverty. These schemes were given an impetus by the 2006 African Union meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, following which the Government of Kenya initiated a wide...

On Wednesday morning, a female police officer attached to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport shot herself dead in the toilet while at work. This suicide comes just three weeks after another officer in Kisumu shot himself dead. There are few or not studies on why...

Official corruption is a big detriment to business. Corruption can take many forms. Corruption can be described as a fraudulent or illegal behavior or action especially by people in power such as government or police officers. Alternatively, it could be defined as the inducement to...

Jomo Kenyatta, also known as Kamau Ngengi, was a Kenyan statesman and nationalist. He was also Kenya’s prime minister and first president. He played a big role in the development of African nationalism in East Africa. Jomo Kenyatta was born on October 20, 1891 in...

In 2003, the government of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) formulated a five year development strategy. This strategy was anchored on the principles of democracy and empowerment (The strategy put a case for empowerment of the people through creation of employment and other income earning...

This theory adopts a more realistic and pragmatic approach to law by considering customary practices and circumstances surrounding a conflict. Basically it evolves on the perception that law is derived from precedents giving it the binding flavour to similar cases. It is for a fact...

In Kenya, there has been negative relationship among inflation and business banks’ loaning volumes and base loaning rates. This is on the grounds that as inflation expands, the business bank loaning volumes in Kenya decays. On the other hand, there exists positive connection between the...

A drug is any substance other than food that provides nutritional support that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological and often psychological change in the body. There are three types...

Traveling can help improve many problem solving skills and also the overall brain health. Traveling to other destinations can be very fun and a very good experience. People like to travel because it gets them away from the same old boring life they do every...

This theory was propounded by Hans Kelsen. It is all about the legal system being pure i. e. free from external forces and the concept of separating laws from morals need to be uphold at all times. Basically, law is defined as an interconnected system...

In Kenya, there has been negative association between inflation and commercial banks’ loaning volumes and base rates on lending. This is due to the fact that as inflation increases, the commercial bank loaning volumes in Kenya declines. Conversely, there exists positive relationship between the base...

Class by Professor Takeshi Tsunoda. Hierarchy of Courts in Kenya Kenya’s system of courts is structured, in descending order, basically as follows: 1. Supreme Court 2. Court of Appeal 3. High Court (Including employment and labor court and the environment and land court) 4. Subordinate...

The River Between The novel by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, The River Between, tells the story of two tribes that hold very different beliefs central to themselves. However, though they agree on very little, there are still people that believe in peace and unity. The clash...

The announcement by Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways, that it would start cargo flighs to USA in December remains one of the most iconic developments for the Kenyan flower industry that has for years made spirited efforts to capture one of the most promising markets...

Online job portal project is aimed at developing or building an online search Portal for jobs application for job seekers. The system project is an online web application which can be accessed anywhere only with proper login provided. The system will be used as an...

Although there exist various jurists under the natural law umbrella, the focus shifts to Thomas Aquinas who is a classical naturalist. Natural Law alias true law is defined as a right reason in agreement with nature which is universal, eternal and unchanging sourcing its validity...

Over the past 35 years, the population of Kenya has almost tripled, from 16.3 million in 1980 to 47 million. And not surprisingly. Of those living in Kenya, 42 per cent are children under the age of 15 years. This has serious consequences for the...

The Cancer burden has become a huge steadily emerging Public Health concern that at large continues to receive minimal priority in Africa especially in the Sub Sahara even though the incidence of cancer in the region has markedly increased.(Kimani et al, 2017). In 2012 alone...

The key role played by the British Government in price regulation of coffee and other commodities was to provide the corporates and settlers with the essential infrastructural, agrarian and marketing amenities and credit facilities. The British government sought to generate, marshal and regulate the supply...

Introduction In the recent past decades, the number of teen pregnancy has reduced drastically in the United States of America due to the measure put in place by the American Academy of Paediatrics (APP) to prevent teen pregnancy. However, it is still a serious issue...

The National Youth Service (NYS) was instituted in 1964 by the National Government of Kenya to equip young Kenyans with essential and formative skills in both personal and national issues (NYS, 2018). Until the late 1980’s, all students were required to join the NYS before...

At the Kenya Military Academy gate, the orderly, the well leveled grass and such a clean environment is the reflection on the aspects of training and the values of the Academy. The place does not get itself to that state, it is the dedication of...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as defined by Callen (2017) is a quantitative measure of a country’s economic production in a period of a year. Information of how a country is performing economically can be found through the calculation of its GDP as it is achieved...