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Law of Corporate Finance in Kenya by ...
This book on the Law of Corporate Finance in Kenya, comprising twenty-five chapters, gives a detailed exposition on:
a) Regulation of corporate decisions on the companies’ capital structure, capital raising rules and capital maintenance rules;
b) Legal framework for debt finance in Kenya and the variants of that form of finance, comprising, loans and corporate debt securities;
c) Capital Markets law in Kenya, particularly, equity finance raising in Kenya by companies, firstly, through private placement procedures of venture capital, private equity and crowd funding. Secondly, through issuing equity to the public by initial public offering and secondary equity offering by way of prospectus, and consequential regulation of trading of equity in secondary markets. Thirdly, liability enforcement mechanisms in capital markets for incorrect disclosures in prospectus; and
d) Regulation of finance raising both by National Government at its parastatals, and by County Governments through public private partnerships (PPP), the typical model of project finance in Kenya.
An Ethnopharmacological Investigation...
Before the arrival of Western medical practices in Africa, indigenous communities had many ways of treating various illnesses. Some, like the Abagusii of Kenya, even had advanced medical practices (given the time) such as head surgery which they conducted routinely with success. Western religion and medicine dealt a blow to these proven medical practices and stunted their development. Nonetheless, because of its effectiveness, traditional healing survives alongside Western medical practices that have taken root worldwide. Some estimates suggest that approximately 60% of the world’s population depends solely on plants for medication. As such, in Africa, it is common to find a Western-educated who professes the Christian faith under modern hospital treatment alongside prescriptions by traditional healers.
Indigenous healing relied on a clear selection of specific plants, elaborate preparation and administration. Typically, the administration of the treatment relied on the plants’ medicinal potency, the associated diet (nutrition) and spiritual beliefs. William Nyang’ate Gisesa set out to test the efficacy of some of the plants used for treatment in Gusii with the results presented herein.
The work, An Ethnopharmacological Investigation of Plants Used by Abagusii Traditional Medical Practitioners, relied on interviews with herbal medicine practitioners, their claims and testing the effectiveness of the plants in a laboratory environment. The work, originally completed for doctoral studies, examines (using modern scientific methods) the authenticity of traditional headers’ claims on the efficacy of their treatment.
The results point to the potential for an indigenous, plant-based, pharmaceutical industry to complement the established medicinal drug production. At a time when pathogens rapidly acquire resistance to medications, indigenous plants offer fresh options.
The work focused on practitioners from Gusii region: Nyamira and Kisii counties. Considering that all communities had similar practices, the task of examining plants used by all Kenyan peoples is colossal.
The Bar Exam and Pupilage: What You A...
Do you aspire to be a lawyer? Might you be wondering how best to choose a suitable university to study law? Or are you already enrolled as a student studying law and need a quick guide on how to understand and remember legal materials? Do you wish to have a road-map on the Advocates Training Program and helpful suggestions on how to pass the Bar Exam? How does one navigate the pupilage period till admission to the Bar? If these questions are of interest to you, then this book will be helpful.
The book is meant for aspiring students of law, current law students at the universities and the Kenya School of Law, law lecturers and professors, practitioners of law and any reader who wants to know what law is and the journey from being a law student from the university to the Kenya School of Law to admission to the bar and beyond.
Disability: Law and Rights by David T...
The book provides a comprehensive, plainly-written account of disability law in Kenya. It elucidates the rights of persons with disabilities as provided under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), giving them an in-depth appraisal within the Kenyan context.
The book discusses emerging issues on disability such as inclusive development in legislations and policies, reasonable accommodation, universal design, non-discrimination, albinism and Vision 2030, among others.
Called To Serve by Sammy Kaihuri
This memoir, a compilation of personal stories and testimonies, chronicles Sammy Kaihuri's experiences as he journeys through life guided by faith. Through tales of unexpected blessings and divine interventions, Sammy shares how God has provided in times of need, particularly through miraculous provisions for his car. These inspiring accounts offer readers a glimpse into Sammy’s deep relationship with God and the transformative power of unwavering faith in the face of challenges.
FEMINISM FOR THE AFRICAN WOMAN by Lyn...
Initially written as 'Because we are People', Lyna Dommie Namasaka's 'Feminism for the African Woman' is an argument for the African feminist discourse. It uses historical records, collections of personal stories and statistics to explore African feminism dynamics in attempts to bridge the gap that exists between African modern feminists and the local realities of the other half of African women. It attempts to bridge the disconnect these differences have created and avoid the potential aftermath of this disconnect. More importantly, the book counters the widespread narrative that Africans live in a post feminist era.
The Zampa Law: Protecting Unaccompani...
As the world faces a plethora of turmoil from conflicts, civil war, and other calamities, causing people to flee for their lives, the homeless and vulnerable persons from Syria, Libya, Palestine and many sub-Saharan African countries seek a haven for their survival.
Migrant minors separated from their immediate family members during these perilous journeys are susceptible to danger, are at risk of child trafficking, and are faced with immigration restrictions at the border of every country they run into.
Thus, Italy’s new legislation, The Zampa Law for ‘Provision of Protection Measures’, is a boon to the children fleeing for their lives without being accompanied by any family or guardian into Italy.
The author analyses the gap that the new Italian Zampa Law filled, the challenges in applying the new law and other aspects of the Italian immigration system related to unaccompanied migrant minors.
Wired Weird by Wairimu Kanyi
It is surreal to sit and start putting the story of your life on paper. It makes you reflect, breaks you, offers mental shifts or aha moments and most of all helps you identify the previous-ness of God all through. You sift through the many precious lessons, achievements, happy & hurtful memories and choices that had lasting impact and those that have had none at all. Mainly you appreciate how each God orchestrated moment is not just for one person’s destiny but is attached to that of others. This book is written to allow you to paint the story of who you really are and discover the true journey of what I am calling your weird wiring. Wired Weird is about my life and how I discovered God’s Cue’s, Clue’s & Calling in my story. I don’t know your story but I believe you will find pointers in this book that will allow you to journey through your own life story. You will appreciate your past, present and how that has already shaped and prepared you for the future. Wairimu Kanyi, is a Christian-based Mom Mindset & Life Mentor. She has a witty sense of humor and views life from optimistic practical life lenses. She carries her heart on her sleeve and that helps her easily empathize, empower and encourage people. She was a HR Professional for 7 years, School Owner for 23 years since 1999 and currently works with Moms prioritizing their Personal growth. Under her brand – The ODDacity Mentor – she helps them build bankable personal or business brands so that they can design a life they desire & God approves. She is married to Kahoro Wachira and together they raise their children Kylin, Krysta & Ean in Nairobi, Kenya.
A Historical and Cultural Analysis of...
In most societies in different parts of the world, there are gender inequalities in access to productive resources such as land, and other social, economic, and environmental resources that are critical for people’s sustenance. However, in many instances, not much research has been conducted on those critical gender issues and perceived unfairness in the ownership, access, and utilization of critical societal resources, particularly, in Africa in general, and Kenya in particular.
In this regard, the need to improve access to land and strengthen women’s land rights in Africa provided the main rationale for undertaking this research, with specific reference to the Gusii of Western Kenya. In particular, the book examines the changing and/or evolving responses of women over time to land access, ownership, control, and usage. Further, the book analyzes the relationship between indigenous land tenure systems and gendered relations; and the effects of colonial land policies on gendered relations. It also examines gender rights with respect to land access and ownership in the post-colonial period in Kisii.
Overall, this study provides pertinent information on the following critical issues. What was the relationship between pre-colonial land tenure systems and gender relations in Kisii? What were the effects of colonial and post-colonial land policies on gender relations in Gusii? How did Gusii women respond to gendered land rights and ownership in the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods?
My Roots
Set among the Abagusii of Kenya at the onset of independence in Africa, Jeremîré Araka’s My Roots is an extraordinary story of postcolonial migration and the characters’ struggle to negotiate their existence in the disparate cultures that assailed Africa during and after colonization.
Otenyo, as Chief Ongoro’s first son, is the entitled heir to his father’s throne. Colonialism and Christianity, however, have infected native customs and traditions, especially among those who have attained formal education such as Otenyo and his sisters who have excelled in modern education undergirded by Christian values. Otenyo acquires outstanding credentials in America where he also meets and marries an American woman, jilting a childhood flame whom he had left – so far unknown to him – pregnant with a daughter. All the successes with education and in the professions, however, further alienate Ongoro’s children from their culture and traditions that have stood the test of time and served their society well. Torn between two worlds and rooted in neither, despite their academic success, their family faces mysterious deaths, countless ailments, baffling mishaps and many incomprehensible happenings whose solutions are deemed only explainable in the traditions of their people.
This story gives the reader insights into the accounts of an immediate pre- and post-independent African state and the journey that Otenyo had unseeingly set out into the distant lands and upon his return, but now in search of his roots. Will the search for his roots succeed? How will his people, who have long-awaited his return, receive him? What of his estranged fiancé, Keruboo? Readers will conclude this book with a sense of awe-inspiring amusement.
What others say about My Roots
“My Roots is a searing memoir painted on a leather that is a vivid, revelatory, thoroughly original and compelling account of postcolonial migration and the characters’ battle to negotiate their existence in the mosaic of cultures that assailed Africa during colonialism and immediate post-colonialism.” – Omwami Prof. Dietrick Kaijanangoma, Author, Analyst, Distinguished communication scholar, St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza.
My Skinny Cow on an Anthill
My Skinny Cow, set in rural Seito which slowly urbanizes and brings a new order, is the captivating story of Asiago and Obiri from their youth to old age. The two work hard in school to become heroes and beacons of hope for the future of the community. The reader is taken through a rich cultural heritage, epitomized most vividly by the community’s wedding tradition, which leaves the reader yearning for more. Even with the old striving to preserve the life-long glorious cultural traditions of the people, modernity comes with a price. The emergence of an all-knowing clique of youth threatens the community’s future; what with disputes between the traditional local elite and the youth determined to have their way with the societal changes they desire.
Danger lucks either way: the rush to modernize at the expense of tradition and the desire to preserve tradition in the face of modernization. Which way for Seito? You, the reader, tell us!
What Others Say
“The novel demonstrates imagination and originality in league with the postmodernist canon, which upholds traditional cultures that are misconstrued by modernist views as peripheral and obsolete.” – Dr. Andrew Nyongesa, teacher, author, critic and literary scholar.
Jesus’ Africa by Patience Musev...
Patience Museveni Rwabwogo’s Jesus’ Africa provides a refreshing view concerning contemporary issues confronting the African continent and her people, duly captured thematically as rebuilding Africa’s walls. Tracing the continent’s historical domination through the times of slavery, the era of colonialism and the post-independence period, the continent has been at the ‘short end of the stick’ of the global development agenda.
That past, notwithstanding, the work sends a powerful message of hope that Africa will arise through, in part, understanding the continent’s place on this earth and the role it is poised to play in global development. The past is important, yes. However, the future must be of prime concern.
To rebuild her walls, the continent would rely on her spiritual pulse and deep conviction that would assure the realization of its rightful place.
Illustrating with examples from the Bible, Patience makes the biblical stories relevant to the much-desired African Renaissance with her walls fully restored.
A Unified Way to Freedom
The author, Prof. Cletus N. Chukwu PhD is a Philosopher, Mystic, Theologian and Prolific writer. He had earlier published academic philosophical books and several articles. From the author's exalted encyclopedic mind, he masterfully takes all categories of readers and audiences on board in this book in an intelligible way into the multifaceted nature of whom, and what we are.
The book exposes the knowledge gaps to build on for achieving self-fulfillment. The dynamics of vibrational nature of our cosmos, the interconnectedness and interdependence of everything in our worldly and spiritual endeavors leading up to wisdom abound in this book.
The book encompasses and synthesizes science, philosophy, arts, mysticism, and inspired religions of Western and Eastern traditions. The author points the way to that exalted state of spiritual consciousness. He brings meaning into human life and stirs courage and aspiration to know “thyself” so as to know the universe and its potential benefits to oneself and humanity. He shows how our thoughts, words, inner desires and actions vibrate and mutate to shape our future in accordance with Divine Will and universal cosmic laws. The book is replete with intrigues of life that are fascinating, yet all the drama of human experiences is intelligible when we know the Divine and the certainty of immortality
OMOKA: Scramble for the Hustler Utopi...
On the sociological level, it is earnestly intended, by shining the spotlight on phenomena that have so far been arid of formal attention, to raise awareness, and by so doing, make a slight contribution in the propagation of social order. We explore the life of the hustler, a social reject by institutional design, because we deem it necessary to destigmatize his being and dignify his status in society. Left unchecked, the present turmoil could easily spiral out of control, both at the personal level of individuals and the social level of interpersonal interactions.
Colour of the Skunk
The late Wilson Lwandhle Magadhla served in the South African Police Force at the peak of the struggle against the apartheid regime. Even as he remained true to his profession of policing, his heart remained with the freedom fighters; he yearned for a country underlined by equality before the law. Merit, he felt, should be the basis of judging persons rather than the colour of their skin.
Drawing suspicion from both sides of the struggle, the good soldier soldiered on, balancing between loyalty to his people and the profession of keeping law and order.
So what were the conditions like in policing during the years of apartheid? What was life like for a black police officer serving under the authority of one of the most repressive and detested regimes in the world? How did black policemen balance between the need for liberation from the oppressive order of apartheid and their duty to do law enforcement?
Following the fall of the apartheid regime, the author went on to serve in Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that was chaired by the Reverend Desmond Tutu. Magadhla was the head of the Special Investigative Section of the commission.
Published posthumously, The Colour of the Skunk is a book for historical records, providing an insider’s account of working in government founded racial discrimination
