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    Dhima ya Futuhitandao Katika Kukabiliana na Masuala ya Afya ya Akili Miongoni Mwa Wakenya
    (Eastern Africa Journal of Kiswahili, 2025-06-09) Magambo, Emilly Angushi; Simiyu, Fred Wanjala; Orina, Felix Ayioka
    Fasihi kupitia utambuzi na tanzu zake tofauti tofauti, tangu jadi, imekuwa na majukumu mahususi ya kutekeleza katika jamii. Kama utanzu mojawapo wa fasihi simulizi, futuhi imetumika pakubwa katika vyombo vya habari kama vile televisheni na redioni kuwafurahisha na kuwachekesha watazamaji na wasikilizaji. Hata hivyo, katika siku za hivi karibuni, futuhi imechukua mkondo tofauti katika uwasilishaji wake. Hii ni kwa sababu ya njia mpya ya mawasiliano ya teknolojia ya kisasa ambayo imezua mitandao ya kijamii kama vile Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram na YouTube. Mbinu mpya za kiteknolojia sasa zipo kwa wingi kuliko wakati mwingine wowote. Licha ya mkurupuko wa mbinu hizi, tusisahau kwamba tangu jadi futuhi imekuwa muhimu katika jamii mbalimbali. Lakini sasa futuhi imekuwa karibu zaidi kwa sababu ya teknolojia ya kisasa. Vile vile, suala la afya ya akili limekuwa nyeti miongoni mwa Wakenya. Hivyo basi, kukawa na haja ya kuchunguza zaidi kuhusu futuhi katika mitandao hii ya kijamii na afya ya akili miongoni mwa Wakenya. Mada hii vile vile ilichaguliwa kwa sababu tafiti ambazo zilihusu futuhi, ziliegemea futuhi katika vitabu vya riwaya na tamthilia na hazikujikita katika suala la afya ya akili. Hivyo basi, makala haya yalinuia kujaza pengo hili kwa kutafitia futuhitandao na afya ya akili miongoni mwa Wakenya, na hasa kwa kuzingatia futuhi zinazopatikana kwenye mitandao ya kijamii hususan Facebook, Twitter na YouTube. Makala haya yalitumia nadharia ya Burudiko ya Sigmund Freud. Utafiti huu ulitumia muundo wa kiethnografia, mkabala wa kithamano. Data kuhusu futuhitandao ilikusanywa kwa mbinu ya Uchanganuzi wa Yaliyomo. Uteuzi wa sampuli ulikuwa wa kimakusudi na kinasibu. Umuhimu wa makala haya ni kuwa, matokeo yake yatasaidia katika ufundishaji wa futuhi. Inapendekezwa kuwa tafiti zaidi zifanywe kuhusu suala la afya ya akili kwa kurejelea vipera vingine vya fasihi simulizi.
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    Reforming privilege, extending opportunity and transcending culture in postmodern Kenya through the “big 4” and the bill of rights
    (KIBU, 2018-06-12) Orina, Felix Ayioka
    Kenya has lived through three main cultural contexts: traditional/pre-colonial context, colonial context and the postcolonial/neo-colonial context. The latter two are modernist and post-modernist in nature. Each of the contexts have unique and, in some cases, overlapping qualities. The traditional context was overwhelmingly socialist even as it provided for individual initiative. The modern culture, conversely, is mainly driven by capitalism characterized by individual gain, economic social clusters and extremely unequal societies with widespread alienating bourgeoisie excesses and decadences. This paper argues that the “Big 4” agenda—with its emphasis on affordable housing, food security, affordable healthcare and manufacturing—coming on stage in the backdrop of “Vision 2030 and the promulgation of the Kenya 2010 constitution, is the closest the country has come to transcending our past and present experiences as a people and disrupting social networks and organizational structures that undermine our success as a people. Coupled with the inalienable provisions in the Bill of Rights (2010), further argues the paper, the “Big 4” provide an opportunity to realize sustainable development as well as realize far reaching social transformation founded on a dynamic balance between free-market economics and stronger social safety nets in modern Kenya. Such social transformation would then pave the way for the desirable equitable balance and access to power, reduced poverty and hunger, general well-being, peace, justice, among other things as outlined in sustainable development goals and Kenya’s vision 2030 social pillar. Guided by various existentialist and social realism theories and strands, and while viewing access to education and the Bill of Rights as the panacea to social inequality in Kenya, the present study seeks to propose ways of achieving and sustaining equitable development in Kenya. Key Words: Bill of Rights, Equity, Social Realism, Existentialism, Sustainable Development, Universal Education, Equality