
Foreword
Volume Eight, Issue 1
The article on the bible in Ateso - Uganda: A contemporary Christian community perspective on the 1961 translation, sought to establish the factors affecting Ateso Bible in addition to highlighting the social-spiritual effects that Ateso Bible in Uganda have had on the community.
The article on the role of technology in streamlining purchasing and supply chain processes in the public sector in Kenya, sought to explore the role of technology in streamlining purchasing and supply chain processes in the public sector in Kenya. The paper began by reviewing existing literature on technology adoption in the public sector, procurement, and supply chain management. It also examined the technological challenges facing procurement and supply chain processes in the public sector in Kenya and the impact of technology on the efficiency of procurement and supply chain processes. The article also analyzed the effectiveness of technology in enhancing transparency and accountability in procurement and supply chain processes in the public sector in Kenya.
The article on religiosity, indigenous contributions, and martyrdom misconstructions in the growth process of Christianity in Uganda, explores how Ugandans organized cultural and political systems that provided fertile ground for seeds of Christianity to germinate and flourish and how missionaries were God sent to compliment on the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel, instituted cultural artistic works that were oscillating and had been spinning for generations.
The article on text interpretation of Ruth 4:1-12 with African eyes: Towards understanding cross - cultural marriage using inculturation biblical hermeneutics, explores inculturation as the adaptation of the Gospel in a culture and the influence of that culture to its appropriation.
The article on urban live-ability and the challenges of social inclusion: Case of slum-dwellers around Karen Suburb, Langata Constituency, Langata sub-County, Nairobi, Kenya, investigates the challenges facing social inclusion efforts in urban live-ability among slum-dwellers around Karen suburb, Nairobi City, Kenya
The article on predictive factors for gambling and prevalence of problematic gambling among students in selected public university in Kenya, was to find out whether gender, socio-economic status, peer influence and acute stress are predictive factors for gambling and to examine prevalence of problematic gambling among the subjects.
The article on exchange of sexually inclined messages in contexts of dating and romantic relationships among young students in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at analyzing how the use of smartphones interrelated with exchange of sexually inclined messages in daily social life of middle level college (MLC) students in Nairobi, Kenya. The research question that yielded the findings of this article was: how does exchange of sexting messages relate to daily social activities among the selected MLC students?
The article on gender dynamics in healing and deliverance during Covid-19 within Africa Neo-Pentecostalism: Towards a contextual interpretation of Mark Gospel, aims at looking at contextual interpretation of Mark gospel showing how healing and deliverance appears very different from Neo-Pentecostal approaches where substances such as eating grass, drinking petrol among other dangerous practices were being used in Africa to exploit women of their resources and rationality. This article also shows how contextual interpretation of Mark gospel idea of healing or deliverance to teach women how false healers are exploiting them.
The article on nations and people of ancient Near East and their impact on the current African Kenyan Set Up, examines the land of the ancient Near East that had complex urban centers in Mesopotamia, the land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers and how the history of Mesopotamia is inextricably tied to the greater region comprising the modern nations of Egypt, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, the Gulf states and Turkey.
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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023): African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research