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Exploring an African church's strategies for fosteriong HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and care
(2014-04-15) Katho, Negura Feli
The purpose of this study was to explore the strategies used in initiating mvIAIDS awareness, prevention and care in Africa Inland Church of Kenya. Data were collected through interviews conducted both with the denominational leaders of AlC-AIDS Division and participants working in local AlC-AIDS programs. Documents and archives related to AlC-AIDS program as well were analyzed The study revealed AlC of Kenya had various operational strategies in creating AIDS awareness and prevention among its members, some of which were initiated by individuals who ran AIDS programs within the AlC context before the AlC-AIDS Division was structured This awareness was created especially through education of both mv negative and mv positive people. Prevention among mv negative people was accomplished through education in schools; application of the church's AIDS policy, and preventive policies applied in AlC health facilities. People living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) received care in hospitals through the provision of free medication, inexpensive antiretroviral drugs and home-based care. The church also operated a feeding program for AIDS orphans.
Influences and perceptions on writing and publishing by African faculty members serving at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology /
(2014-05-06) Head, Deborah Lynn
The need for contextually relevant Christian literature in Africa is significant. Scholars experience negative and positive influences when writing and publishing that either contributes to or detracts from the production of more literature. The purpose of the research project was to identify the subjective perceptions of writing and publishing and what has influenced these experiences among the African faculty members serving at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) in Kenya, in order to understand how to better facilitate the production of African literature in the future. The experience and perceptions of the occupational, social and publishing influences on the faculty members were researched using qualitative phenomenological methods. Eight African faculty participated in open-ended interviews and select members of the NEGST administration were consulted through interviews or e-mail. Research findings were that all three spheres of occupational, social and publishing influences contributed positively and negatively to the experiences. Social and publishing factors were primarily positive while occupational ones contributed the greatest discouragements. Data analysis revealed a complex interplay of all three spheres, with an emphasis on the role of motivation, accountability and initiative by both the academic institution and the faculty. Responsibilities are shared by the two groups and must be carried out in conjunction to improve the outcomes of writing and publishing in the future.
Philosophy of African Folktales : a case study of Akamba Stories
(2014-05-15) Jean-Pasteur, Kahindo Katavo
This study involved 100 Akamba tales as recorded in Mbiti's Akamba stories, and Kieti and Coughlin's Barking, you'll be eaten! It had a fourfold purpose: establishing the morphological framework of the corpus, setting down their message, testing their coherence and gauging the degree of their analogy to the biblical worldview. Thus, three research questions, from which five hypotheses were drawn, led the study to five main areas of investigation. Designed as a literary research, this structural analysis rested upon BremondJs morphological model, and Paulme and Cauvin's typological patterns. Both paracompositional and compositional structures were analyzed. It became clear that the narrative economy tended to reproduce all the structural types thus far known. From its dual perspective, the tale genre seemed to express a two-emphasis theme, nine various frequencies of the life-view and three ideals. Despite a few inconsistencies, the commonsensical worldview of tales showed a significant extent of analogy with the biblical worldview. Three corrective ways were suggested and practical recommendations proposed in view of cultural revitalization.
Understanding Third Culture Kids' Perception of the Teenage Sunday School Classes in two Urban African Churches.
(2014-05-08) Williams, Grace Kogi
The purpose of this grounded theory study is to understand and explain the experiences of Third Culture Kids in Sunday school in two urban African Churches and identify ways of helping them adjust to a different culture. Data collected was by means of interviews and e-mails for the sake of TCKs that live far away. The research findings revealed some significant results: • TCKs are kids who have no choice on the movements they have made from location to location. • TCKs have had diverse cultural adjustment issues to cope with in the course of moving from place to place. Their experiences though diverse yet valuable. • TCKs desire friendship from Sunday School teachers in order to receive support as they seek to adjust to various cultural situations they find themselves in. • TCKs react to changes according to how they perceive them, but need to be understood in the sense that if they display any negative reactions to situations, it is not deliberate. For a long time, the attitudes of TCKs in Sunday School classes has been a concern to the church especially in relation to the Western Missionary TCKs, however this study has opened a small window into some of the reasons for the attitudes of TCKs in Sunday School classes. I hope that the church will have solutions for the issue at hand and do better in handling the issues for the benefit of TCKs and the church.