Essays on Kenya

International Marketing

Introduction

The geography of Kenya is highly diverse. The Western and Central Kenya is categorized by the Kenyan Rift Valley, Mount Elgon and Mount Kenya. Kenya is present across the equator within east-central Africa, on the Indian Ocean coast. It is two times the total size of Nevada (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014). Moreover, Kenya borders Ethiopia in the north, Somalia in the east, Uganda in the west, Tanzania in the south and lastly, Sudan in the northwest. Additionally, in the northern region, the land is barren while the southwest area is within the lush Lake Victoria Basin. The climate Continue reading...

Kenya is a country that is found in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. It is a country with an approximate population of 40 million people. With a square kilometer area of approximately 582000, Kenya is among the third world countries that are under developed. A former colony of Britain, Kenya mainly depends on agriculture as its main economic backbone although the type of agriculture practiced in the country is not mechanized. Most of its land lies in arid and semiarid climatic areas. Alongside agriculture, the successive governments of Kenya have stepped up campaigns to promote tourism. Tourism Continue reading...

Detailed Outline

Introduction
This section shall provide a distinct presentation on what the whole paper is about
Introducing the 1st Specie
This section specifically provides of distinct presentation on the details about the first specie that has been discovered in Kenya
Introducing the 2nd Specie
This section provides a specific description of the second specie that has been discovered and how it could have a relative connection to all the environmental elements they relatively exist with.

Definition of social culture among primates

This section shows how the overall culture of primates relates to those that have been recently discovered in Kenya as noted in the details.

Details of Findings:

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 In the context of the country Kenya, the marketing of product like clothing should take into consideration several environmental factors so as to formulate a successful marketing mix. The environmental forces in Kenya should be fully and carefully analyzed because the country consists of various categories of people and various socioeconomic forces. The marketing of clothes in Kenya should, therefore, take into consideration various forces in order to determine the prices, distribution channels as well as the target markets in the most appropriate manner. The Kenyan environment has a great influence due to its diversity in influencing the marketing Continue reading...

This film documents major struggles for independence in African countries such as Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, Mozambique and Belgian Congo. It gives focus to the vision of Pan-Africanism by Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah. Events that led to the attainment of Ghana’s independence are documented. Similar uprisings in Belgian Congo, Kenya, Algeria, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau are also highlighted in this film. The film features the organization for African Unity (OAU) and the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
The narrators raise a number of issues in this film. First is the origination of African Nationalism which occurred mainly after Continue reading...

Introduction

Globalization and modernization refer to the influence that modern nations have on non-developed or traditional nations and societies. At times, these influences result from direct contact, such as the opening of a Western corporate office or manufacturing plant in an underdeveloped nation. Other times, the influences can be indirect, such as the transmission of Western cultural values to non-Western societies through mediums such as television, literature, and goods shipped to local areas. Globalization and modernization can have both positive and negative impacts on the cultural practices of non-Western societies, and deciphering the impact of these influences can involve a Continue reading...

Introduction

Social policy often refers to a broad framework within which a country’s social welfare plans and agenda is put together in order to achieve the fundamental ends of the government and people of the nation. This includes a set of policies and practices concerned with promoting social welfare and wellbeing. Social policy is a process where policy makers use scientific methods to formulate important processes and regulations for the attainment of results relating to the social wellbeing for individuals and for the communities within the society and community groups.
There are various constituents of social activities that affect Continue reading...

12. 3. 2014

Banning Mini-skirt in Kenya

Beginning in March 2014, there is a heated discussion on wearing mini-skirts in public has been questioned. Many Kenyans are claiming that aside from being a violation of a women’s right and curtailing their freedom to wear what they want, for many people, it was a direct discrimination. However, what drew people especially for women to even the greater disgust and fury was the public humiliation. The women who experienced the hands of some people after they have been stripped and assaulted for the clothing article of wearing. After the incident, women and human rights Continue reading...

The film Nowhere in Africa by Caroline Link tells the story of a German Jewish family that relocates to Kenya after the persecution of Jews broke out in Germany. Walter, who is the husband of the family first relocates and is later joined by his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. The family moves from a life of comfort in Frankfurt to a remote place called Rongai, somewhere in Africa. She loved jewelry, luxuries, and beautiful clothes and was very elegant, befitting the status of the wife of an accomplished lawyer. But things are never the same again because they Continue reading...

Beginning in March 2014, a heated discussion on wearing mini-skirts in public has been questioned. Many Kenyan’s were, in fact, outraged by the said proposal, claiming that aside from being a violation of a woman’s right and curtailing their freedom to wear what they, please. For many, it was a direct discrimination. However, what drew people especially women to even greater disgust and fury was the public humiliation that some women experienced from the hands of some people after they have been stripped and assaulted for wearing the said clothing article.
Kenyans had long battled gender discrimination Continue reading...

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman, originally known as Minty was born in the plantation called Anthony Thompson, in an area known as Peters Neck in Dorchester County (Sernett 286) in 1822. She was the fifth among the nine children, with the parents being Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross, both of who were slaves, and as such made her a slave due to the American laws at that time. He father was employed as a timber inspector, in one of the timber plantations were slaves were laborous. Among her other siblings, were Linah, Mariah, Ben, Henry, Moses, Soph, Rachel, and Robert. Continue reading...

Early in the morning as we had breakfast with my family, I thought of what to do during the Christmas period. The weather was not favorable, and I could not imagine spending a whole month walking around the house with heavy clothing and gloves all day long. It was long since we had breakfast together with my father as he was always busy with his career. He works as a contractor in one of the biggest firms in U.S. I wanted to spend the holy month in a different environment. I was looking for a way to approach my Continue reading...

The main objective of this paper is to answer two separate questions: What are the roles played by media in conflict resolution or exacerbating conflicts across the globe? And how the influences of the media did contributed or exacerbate the war on Iraq and ethnic violence in Kenya that took place in the year 2007 after the election. Considering researches conducted concerning the media and conflict resolution, media and peace and media a tool of information that is also presumed to be the source of power, it is possible to justify the fact that media is the most significant Continue reading...

Kenya is located in Eastern Africa and is considered as the economic hub of the region. One of the most distinctive aspects of the nation is that it has a market-based economy that is accompanied by a very liberalized foreign trade policy. Kenya gained independence from the British in 1963 and since that time, the nation has experienced inconsistent economic growth (Bradshaw, 1988). In fact, during the early years after independence, the rate of economic growth for the nation was very high (6%).However, this rate decreased to about 4% for the following decades. Things particularly got bad for Continue reading...

Political History and Development of Nursing Education: Comparison of Kenya and Poland

Traditions and culture in Kenya are the origins of its nursing system. As an African country, the wide belief of Kenyan community in the occult and/or supernatural had determined their earliest conceptual explanations of illness and disease. The earliest known nurses in Kenya were the Traditional Health Providers and Traditional Birth Attendants (Mule, 1986). Traditional Health Providers and Traditional Birth Attendants of the pre-professional nursing era in Kenya used objects, particularly herbs and ancient practices of sacrifice/offering, as the basic forms of medicines (Mule, 1986). However, with the arrival of Western missionaries on Kenyan lands, the traditional nursing known Continue reading...

The interest rates for the central bank of Kenya have had different faces since 1991 with the rate changing as the economy of the country keeps on shifting from worst to best. At the moment, the exchange rates in Kenya stand at 8.5 percent as compared to that adopted by the Federal Reserve System (FED) of America which stands between 0 and 0.25 percent. From the year 1991 to 2014, the average exchange rate for Kenya is 14.62 percent. Kenya recorded a record of 84.67 percent in July 1993. At this time, the FED was enjoying the exchange rate Continue reading...

My Experiences Touring Kenya’s Wildlife

My Experiences Touring Kenya’s Wildlife
Working as an environmentalist I have come to appreciate wildlife in Africa majorly the diversity that it has in the variance of creation. To sample a few of theattractions that drew me to Kenya includewilderbeastmigrationandthebig five (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and hippopotamus). I wasexcited to visit Africa with thepromise to feast my eyes on its wildlife. However, my visitwasalsodriven by environmental conservationinitiatives since there has beengrowingconcerns over poaching in Africa and Kenya to be specific. To thisend, I notethat elephants and rhinos havebecomethemainvictims of poachers for their ivory. Similarly, cheaters andleopardshave as wellfallenvictim Continue reading...

Numerous artists in both the traditional and modern world have continued to influence the perception of art in many ways. My favorite artist is Hassan Athman who is a Fine Art Painter from Mombasa, Kenya. This artist is one of the youngest and successful painters in Kenya and Africa. He is famous because of his distinctive inclination to specific thematic approach, which include social background particularly, the African, politics and poverty among others. The author of this article is unknown. The article is published in the ProQuest as an interview with the artist. The date of publication is 31 Continue reading...

Enhanced human health has and remains to be a comprehensive concern across various settings all over the globe. The World Health Organization has and continues to play a comprehensive role in addressing health issues that have become eminent in the contemporary world. As an example, the recent past has experienced the emergence of Ebola, which has resulted in a number of deaths all around the globe. The World Health Organization has been vocal in addressing this epidemic, which continues to rage havoc for various populations. The World Health Organization is guided by its constitution, which countries must conform to Continue reading...

This study will consider Nairobi city of Kenya and Beijing city of China. Nairobi city is the capital city of Kenya with area a size of 696 square kilometers. It has a population of more than three million. It is one of the prominent cities in Africa, which has flourished both economically and financially. It is a home to thousands of Kenyan business bases with over 100 global companies. Nairobi city is the fourth largest trading exchange hub with an ability to make over ten million trades per day. According to the Globalization and World Cities Study and Network, Continue reading...

History

2014
- Introduction
Science changed the total geography of the Universe. Latest inventions and discoveries in the medical field paved a better way of disease diagnosis and its cure. However, there are certain some diseases that still need more scientific and medical attention. There is still unavailability of proper medical cure for such diseases. This deadly group of diseases includes AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The lethal disease is also known as HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.

What is AIDS/HIV?

AIDS is a disease of human immune system caused by HIV virus. It includes all the diseases, ranging from early infection to late stage Continue reading...

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There is a wide variety of ways one can view towards differences across cultures. On a micro level, one could look at how families interact in distinct ways across cultures. On a macro level, one would look to how governmental action is reflective of cultural differences. One lens to view differences in cultures is to analyze how they resolves conflicts. The environment within which a culture is created affects how conflicts are resolved. This essay analyzes the differences in conflict resolution between Icelandic and Kenyan culture. This provides an interesting case study since many of the fundamental tenets of Continue reading...

Culture is simply the way of living of the people as it gives people a sense of identity, belonging and pride. This explains why people always regard their culture and have such a great esteem towards it. Culture entails several aspects of the community ranging from language, traditions, customs, and festivals among others. It is in this broad concept of culture that the rites of passage exist. There are many transitions that occur in the life of a person. Some of these transitions are trivial while others are major depending on societal consideration. The rites of passage are a Continue reading...

Kenya is an interesting African country. I choose this country because of the richness of culture and the struggles it is making towards independence. Like all other countries in the sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya is faced with many challenges of economy. One of the challenges that Kenya face and has been with it since independence is the education system. This is the reason why the education system has undergone many changes since independence in 1963. Fifty years after independence, there are still some aspects of the British education system especially when it comes to management and the pedagogy. In the Continue reading...

Research paper

Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa bordering the Indian Ocean. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west and Sudan to the northwest. According to Index Mundi (Kenya Demographics Profile, 2013) “the population of Kenya today is about 44 million people; most of the population70% - young people under the age of 30 years (There are more than 5 children in each Kenyan family)”. Three quarters of population are engaged in agriculture (24% of GDP), but most of the country is unsuitable for agriculture. The main crops Continue reading...

Article Response

In the article Haitians Face Persecution Across Dominican Border, Jacob Kushner examines the open discrimination perpetrated by the Dominican Republic against Haitian immigrants. It is important to note that the article is written just two years after Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake that killed thousands and displaced millions more Haitians. One key point to note is the warmth that the Dominican Republic showed to Haiti and Haitians after the earthquake struck. According to Kushner (50), the Republic’s response to the quake was the immediate sending of rescue teams, doctors, and about $34 million in emergency aid. Also, the Continue reading...

Like any other sector; banking, trade, and commerce have evolved to embrace the use of technology in different ways. Unlike the traditional settings, where cash was the only accepted means of payments, these sectors have simplified money into different forms. However, while technology has been significant in the expansion of the scopes of markets through different payment methods, mostly electronic forms, the technological developments in the banking industry have equally added risks and created problems in transactions including fraud, cybercrime, and money laundering among other crimes. Nevertheless, the impacts of technology on the efficiency transactions have been significantly noted Continue reading...

Introduction

The subject of foreign aid has been subjected to intensive debates. The impacts of the funding from financial institutions have been the major subject of scrutiny in the past years. Foreign aid has been considered to have positive influences on the growth of developing countries for a long time. Until recently, the funding has been associated with negative and positive effects. The paper explores the possible influences of the funding from the main financial instruction in the world. The country of study will be Kenya. The influence of the funding on the political, social and economic aspects of the Continue reading...

In the global world of the 21st century, music is among the few elements that have the capacity to cross both the political, cultural and the physical borders. The songs reflect and shape social life. In Kenya and Tanzania for instance, hip hop is an influential tool for political participation. Thus the reason various bodies such as the Independent Study Project have focused on the role played by hip hop music particularly in the youth culture. It is through hip hop that artists express their views in an open system that allows individuals, especially the young, some room for Continue reading...

Introduction

In the field of anthropology, students and interested readers would previously obtain information from classical sources. However, the increased attention of researchers in sociology has led to the recent developmentofliteratureongenderphilosophiesacrosstheworld.Brettell and Sargent is among the passionate writers who are inclining their work towards modern topics in anthropology. Most of their work is designed in a manner that is deemed appropriate for scholars at various levels of their studies ("Economic Empowerment." 2013p. 10). In his essay, I will evaluate one significant topic in the field of anthropology and then relate Brettell and Sargent’s work to ideologies contained within the Continue reading...

Many African people loved and even cherished as well as valued their traditional foods and drinks. They always adored their culture more than foreign culture. For instance, in the mid 1930s in Gold Coast a traditional drink known as akpeteshie was introduced and distilled from sugar cane juice. Additionally, the distillation of local akpeteshie drink spread across the Gold Coast region in Ghana at a faster pace (Akyeampong 216).
After the invasion of Europeans colonialism in African states, the colonists took over everything which made them to mistreat the native in their own land. They exploited Africans mercilessly in Continue reading...

I have always loved seeing animals and watching television programs especially “Discovery World,” which bring different aspects of animal life. I have always wished to have the opportunity to view these animals from environments that offer a wide range of animals such as the lion, leopards, tigers, elephants, rhinos, wildebeests, and monkeys. If I could take an all expense paid trip to any destination in the world for two weeks, I would choose to go to the Sub Saharan African countries to experience the beauty of nature. I would specifically go to Kenya because of its rich variety of Continue reading...

African leaders and presidents are seriously considering pulling out en masse from the being signatories to the Rome Statute that formed the International Criminal Court (ICC) based at The Hague, Netherlands. This follows their dissatisfaction with what they allege to be a bias on the part of the court against cases touching on Africans. A case in point is where the president of Kenya, Honourable Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and his deputy, William Samoei Ruto, both of whom face serious war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Kenya’s bloodiest post-election violence of 2007/2008, have been denied immunity by Continue reading...

Energy is a major component of every household in the world today. There are many forms of it depending on the place and region as well as the socio economic status of the users. In Africa, particularly in Kenya, sources of energy are many. The kind of energy used is normally dependent on very many factors among them the socio economic status of the users, the region or locality of the users, the sources of energy available and many more. Despite of all these, many people exploit the non renewable sources of energy such as firewood and charcoal because Continue reading...

Research Paper on the Impact of the Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital in Kenya

Introduction
The IMF and the World Bank are intergovernmental pillars which support the financial order and the world’s economic structure. Their core mandate is to offer financial loans to developing countries to undertake developmental projects in their countries. These projects may be in the education sector, the infrastructure sector and the health sector (World Bank, 2010). 
A country like Kenya which is a developing country relies on the IMF and the World Bank for these loans so as to facilitate development in the country. Though these loans that are given out to developing countries by the IMF and Continue reading...

How elections may lead to political violence

Introduction
Elections are supposed to function as a peaceful means for making decisions and settling political differences. However, they do not always function in this way: sometimes, they trigger political violence. Especially ethnically divided societies are often thought to be prone to such dynamics. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the 2007 Kenyan elections and the 2006 and 2011 elections in Zambia. Working with these cases, it asks, first, whether the presence of ethnic diversity must lead to violence around election time. In a second step, the paper gives an analysis of under what conditions ethnic diversity tends Continue reading...

Introduction

Political contests should be peaceful processes which do not divide people along ethnic lines or worse still- cause violence. In parts of Africa this is not always the case. Rampant populism in Africa in political competition has led leaders to mobilize across ethnicities (Eifert, Miguel and Posner 494) even leading to post-election violence in countries like Kenya. There is a deeper perception of other factors surrounding ethnicity as a cause of violence such as historical economic injustices, faulty electoral system, voter numbers and political influence as well as political disagreements (Eifert, Miguel and Posner 495). This makes political victory Continue reading...

Wangari Mathai is an environmental icon in the world, and the first and only Woman Nobel Peace awardees. Born in 1940, in Nyeri county of Kenya, Wangari Mathai amassed quite a number of accolades which are no mean feat for any woman schooled during her times. She obtained a degree in biological Sciences from the Mount Scolastical College in Kansas in 1964, and then proceeded for her Master of Sciences degree in Germany before joining the University of Nairobi for another Masters degree and lastly a Ph.D from the same university where she taught for some time.
In order Continue reading...

Tourism Management 3700

Introduction
In Kenya, tourism provides the second largest source of revenue to the national government after agriculture; people travel from all over the world to visit tourist attraction cites. According to the assumptions of most of the Europeans and Americans who have never visited Africa, these assume that there are very many wild animals in the continent that people just mingle with them in the streets. The former part of this assumption is true. Yes, there are very many wild animals in Africa, especially in Kenya, but these wild animals are organized in places where tourists can view and Continue reading...

In 2006, a small scale experimental program in Kenya called M-PESA transformed payment strategies for emerging markets. This test program was started by Vodafone through funding from the department for international development. M-PESA started in Kenya on March 2007, in conjunction with Safaricom, a leading mobile telecommunication company in Kenya. It is a mobile phone application payment service where “M” stands for mobile and “Pesa” is a Swahili word denoting money. Currently, over nine million clients use M-PESA monthly to transact tens of millions. In developing economies, people work far from where they live and send domestic payments to Continue reading...