Kenya Studies Review (KSR Journal)

Volume 9 Issue 2

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Research Articles

Understanding and Improving Outcomes for Students in an Underserved Secondary School in Kenya: A School-Community-University Partnership
Teresa A. Wasonga, Ximena D. Burgin, and Mayra C. Daniel

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The Influence of National Sovereignty on Kenya-Uganda Economic and Political Relations
Juma W. Chemiati and Wanjala S. Nasong’o

17

On Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Political Theatre: An Artist’s Conflict with the State over Performance Space
Denis Waswa

30

Media Representations of Women Politicians in Kenya: Lesson from 2017 General Elections
Margaret N. Barasa and Mary Gitau

42

Short Stories

Enemy of the People
Boniface Nyamweya

61

The Bottom Line
Andrew Nyongesa

69

Poetry

Naomi Kwamboka
Me
Death or Life?
My Papa
The Wait

80

Imali J. Abala
Arsonists’ Minutes of Glory: School Burning

84

Anne N. Lutomia
Changing Dreams
My Mother’s Falls 
Finding Freedom

88

Opinion Pieces

Child Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Street Kids: A Social Commentary on Resilience after Abuse in a Kenyan Orphanage
Eunice Menja

91

Book Review

Sakagwa Ng’iti: A Kisii Prophet by Peter O. Nyambasora
Reviewed by Enock Matundura

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