http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/5929 2026-04-20T08:57:51Z 2026-04-20T08:57:51Z Mutai, Solomon http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7935 2023-08-10T07:56:48Z 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Digital Research Environment (DRE) : Authors: Mutai, Solomon Abstract: Why Manage Research data? Africamultiple Cluster of Excellence & DRE Current situation Why Dspace Future plans

2022-12-01T00:00:00Z Sikuku, Justine Mukhwana Mulalu, Joseph Wanyonyi Safir, Ken http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7932 2023-08-10T07:01:46Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The typology of actual clauses in Eastern Bantu Authors: Sikuku, Justine Mukhwana; Mulalu, Joseph Wanyonyi; Safir, Ken Abstract: This article reports on the existence of actual clause morphology and interpretation in selected Bantu languages. Essentially, we treat the actual clause as an embedded assertion whereby the utterer is committed not only to the truth of the proposition described by the actual clause: It must be the case that the event in the proposition cannot be unrealized (or describe a future state) at the time of the utterance. The Bantu languages in our sample mark the actual clause by a verbal prefix in a typical tense position on the lower verb. This prefix occurs as a single vowel or as a consonant/vowel combination. When the actual clause is a syntactic complement, it co-occurs with verbs that may be incompatible with indicative clauses. The clause is also semantically distinct from other clause types such as the infinitive and the subjunctive. Our analysis of actual clauses as assertions explains why they are not complements of factive verbs. We argue that the source of the speaker’s commitment to truth arises in part from the way actual clauses are licensed by the clauses they are dependent on. That is, we propose that actual clauses are licensed by a “contingent antecedent clause” which is taken to be a precondition for the actual clause assertion. Our approach generalizes to explain other non-complement uses of actual/narrative clause types, typically described as “narrative” tense in Bantu, which is bears the exact same morphology.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Odhiambo, Christopher J. http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7930 2023-08-10T06:05:39Z 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z

Title: Aesthetics of Participation in Film for Community Development: Authors: Odhiambo, Christopher J. Abstract: This article explores how film as a mode of intervention in community development has deliberately integrated the aesthetics and poetics of participation. To demonstrate how this is made possible, a film by Sponsored Art For Education—Kenya (SAFE-K) entitled Watatu is deployed as a specimen for critical analysis. From the structuring and framing of the film through the infusion of community theatre participatory aesthetics, it is discerned that film can actually incorporate aesthetics of participation to engage audiences in dialogue. Description: Part of the Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens book series (ÄZKäD)

2023-06-23T00:00:00Z Simatei, Peter http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7929 2023-08-10T05:48:55Z 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z

Title: East African Asian Writing and the Emergence of a Diasporic Aesthetic Authors: Simatei, Peter Abstract: This article traces the emergence of East African Asian writings and their struggle with questions of national belonging and diaspora. It argues that although this emergence was part and parcel of the literary developments that were taking place in the East Africa region in the 1960s, these writings would later distinguish themselves as texts that are not only framed by the ambivalent and diasporic histories of Indians in imperial and postcolonial East Africa but also as writings that consciously construct ambivalent diasporic subjectivities as the basis of new forms of East African Indian identities. I argue that this ambivalence reveals itself in the way these texts disavow dominant, nationalistic, even binary accounts of colonial relationships and create, instead, narratives that skirt the borderlines of both colonial and nationalist discourses. Description: Part of the Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens book series (ÄZKäD)

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