As in other Kenyan communities, popular music among the Kamba has been one of the sites in which contemporary experiences and identity relations are expressed, contested and even reconstructed. This paper discusses the findings of an ethnographic study of Kalambya Boys and Kalambya Sisters”: bands that were popular in the eighties and whose songs still widely circulate and are performed by...
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This paper interrogates the role in which popular songs plays in the transmission and popularization of (im) morality in Kenyan Society. The paper attempts an analysis of selected popular songs in an attempt to identify the moral lessons therein. The paper further urges that those songs that are considered immoral in fact serve to highlight the expected form of morality which is based...
COVID-19 is a global pandemic impacting negatively on global societies. The pandemic has touched almost all facets of human life. It is therefore critical that governments find preventive and curative solutions to this disease. Communities play a key role in the mitigation processes being put in place. This study aims at investigating communities’ perceptions on public health communication for...
This study investigated the lexicographical impact of the Covid pandemic on world languages. This study was informed by the huge surge in novel expressions and new or hitherto uncommon or unknown technical terminologies which have come up in reference to the many facets of the pandemic. This study did a case study of Kalenjin language which like many other world languages lacks the necessary...
The proliferation of COVID-19 English Neologisms on Digital Media in Kenya
Anne Manyasi,anne.mayasi@gmail,com,0722636853
Department of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Egerton University
Dr. Josephine Khaemba, jkhaemba76@gmail.com,0722265757
Department of Literature Languages and Linguistics
Egerton University
Abstract
The current global pandemic has not only changed the lives of...
Utafiti huu ulilenga kuchambua majina ya wanaume miongoni mwa wanajamii wa jamii ya Watugen kutoka eneo la Kaunti ya Baringo nchini Kenya, Afrika Mashariki. Japokuwa majina ya kipekee hujumuisha majina ya Mito, milima, vijiji, miji, wat una nchi, utafiti huu ulishughulikia majina ya wanaume pekee. Makala hii ina vijisehemu zifuatazo: Maelezo mafupi kuhusu jamii ya Watugen, utamaduni wa kupeana...