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    Aspects of current Kikuyu culture were molded by modern demands impressed upon them by British colonization. British colonists brought western ideas about living standards and health care, as well as projecting British ideals of family life upon the Kikuyu people. In the 1950’s, as a reaction to this imposition of western beliefs and practices upon the people of Kenya, the Mau Mau began to fight the existing British infrastructure. This uprising was a final divide in the Kikuyu tribe based on the

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    Kenya, known-as the birthplace of humanity due to some of the oldest human fossils ever discovered. Senior enlisted leaders must understand the importance of Kenya and how it can help stabilize the region and prevent growth of terrorist networks. This brief will cover the background, government, strategic importance, and future direction of Kenya. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Kenya is a country that resides on the east coast of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean, with Nairobi as its capital and largest

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    DQ #1 I have always wanted to pursue a doctoral program but never had the financial resources. Hence, I researched and found this doctoral program offered by The Swiss Management Center University (SMC) which is a high quality multifaceted online education program which is accredited by Accredited Council of Business Schools Program (ACBSP). Furthermore, it is affordable, flexible very informative and relevant in both academic and business sectors. (SMC, n.d.). Several people influenced my decision

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    Media Development in Kenya

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    frustrating the alternative media. A few alternative media survived after their collapse at independence. They became increasingly vocal, disillusioned with the pace of change and the political rifts among the political elite. In 1966 Odinga fell out with Kenyatta after being expelled from the ruling part, subsequently there was a major crack down on the emergent alternative English- language media, such as the Christian publication Target. Several underground publications, including Pambana, Mwananchi and

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    The 's And The 1970 ' S

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    Throughout the 1960’s and the 1970’s, the world viewed Kenya with optimism. Portrayed as one of the few democracies in Africa, with government elections and nonviolent transitions between leaders, the country beaconed democratic prosperity. At the time, neighboring countries–Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania¬–were involved in military coups. In a contrast to these states, Kenya was “the best Africa could hope for” (wa Maina, 1992). Even in 1992, the first multi-party elections since independence

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    Life In Kenya

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    I am in my late 30’s who’s a full time student and a family man with a fulltime occupation. My wife would have her own indecency able to work and not say home to have children or watch them all day long. My wife would have her own indecency able to work and not say home to have children or watch them all day long. She would also follow her dreams and aspirations to become whatever she wanted to be. My children would follow all the schooling even though the some places the poverty levels

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    Decolonization period in Africa didn’t come peacefully in all the countries. Many times the natives had to get violent in order to achieve their independence. Although the history of this struggle has two sides, it has always been portrayed through a European point of view. This painted the Africans as pure savages without truly examining what drove them to commit these violent acts. Europeans have always bent history to show themselves in a positive manner. One of the battles in which history has

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    I was born and brought up in Nairobi, Kenya. Demographically, my family was typically part of Kenya’s urban poor. As a young boy, I was constantly confronted by the realities and debilitating impact of poverty. At the age of twelve, I was transferred from a Nairobi-based primary school to a boarding primary school in rural Kenya where I eventually excelled and emerged the best in the district during national examinations, earning me admission to one of the best high schools in the country. While

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    JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Optimized Dynamic Latent Topic Model for Big Text Data Analytics NAME: Geoffrey Mariga Wambugu REGISTRATION NUMBER: CS481-4692/2014 LECTURER: Prof. Waweru Mwangi A thesis proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the Unit SCI 4201 Advanced Research Methodology of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology at the School of Computing and Information Technology

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    History Russell McGillivray Kenya The British colonization of Kenya destroyed the culture and economy of the native people, but it established a democratic government and left Kenya a more modernized country.[1] During the 1880’s through 1914, the start of WWI, was an age of imperialism. One place that felt victim to this imperialism was Africa. At this time Africa was a wholly unmodernized continent. The reason the Europeans went after Africa was the introduction of the idea of

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