Prof. Albert Rutere Profile



   Name of Staff: Albert Mugambi Rutere

   Designation/Rank: Professor of Literature

   School:  Humanities and Development Studies

   Department: Department of Literary and Communication Studies 

   Email: arutere@laikipia.ac.ke

     

Educational Background/Qualification:

  • PhD (African Literature & Gender Studies), Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (2009)
  • Masters in. (Applied Linguistics), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (1990)
  • Bachelors in Education (Arts in English and Literature), Kenyatta University, Kenya (1986)

Brief Auto-biography of the Faculty/Staff

Dr. Albert Mugambi Rutere is a Professor of Literature at Laikipia University, Kenya. He is PhD graduate of Morgan State University (USA), a Masters holder from University of Edinburgh (UK) and attained undergraduate degree from Kenyatta University (Kenya). He has over 35 years teaching and research experience at the university level in Kenya, UK, USA and Nigeria. He has taught, examined and supervised both undergraduate postgraduate students. He has authored and coauthored over 70 papers in referred journals, authored 1 textbook, coedited 2 textbooks in addition to reviewing several papers and book chapters for publication. He has been an engaging member of Senate in Laikipia University and The Catholic University of East Africa. He has also been a member of Deans’ Committee and University Management Board at Laikipia University. He has chaired several ad hoc Senate and University Management Board Committees at Laikipia University. Even further, he has been a Director of Board of Undergraduate Studies, Teaching Practice and Field Attachment at Laikipia University and Director of Laikipia University Nakuru Campus. The year 2022, he was the Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration, Finance and Planning) at Laikipia University. The year 2023 he was on Sabbatical at Meru University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is the Senate Representative of School of Humanities and Development Studies and the External Examiner of Literature Courses at Kenyatta University as well Literature, English and Linguistics courses at Meru University of Science and Technology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  1. African Literature and Gender Studies
  2. Oral Literature, especially the retention of proverbial wisdom in African proverbs
  3. Issues in Education System in Kenya and beyond
  4. Current and topical issues in Health and Environment

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOK(S) SINCE LAST PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LITERTURE

  1. Rutere, A. M., & Mutie, S. (2025). Beyond the Savannah: A Feminist Reading of Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah. LIFT: The Journal of Literature and Performing  Arts, 4, 83-94.
  2. Karumba, J. N., Goro, N. K., & Rutere, A. M. (2025). A Psychoanalytic Examination of Visual Art as a Tool of Protesting Hegemonic Masculinities in Nurrudin Farah’s Hiding in Plain Sight and Yvonne Adhiambo Owour’s Dust. LIFT: The Journal of
  3. Literature and Performing Arts, 4, 13-26.
  4. Chebet, Caroline, Wanjiru Mugo, Stephen Mutie & Albert Rutere. Narrative Techniques Used to Portray Torments in Coetzee’s Disgrace, Slow Man, and Waiting for Barbarians. East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 8. (2025):63-79. Print ISSN 2707-4277/OnlineISSN:2707-4285. DOI:https://doi.org/10.37284/2707-4285.
  5. Chebet, Caroline, Wanjiru Mugo, Stephen Mutie & Albert Rutere. Characters' Reaction to Torments in Coetzee’s Selected Novels. East African Journal of Arts and Social  Sciences 8. (2025): 80-90. Print ISSN 2707-4277/OnlineISSN:2707-4285. DOI:https://doi.org/10.37284/2707-4285
  6. Mwangi Muhia. Philip, Albert Mugambi Rutere, & Stephen Muthoka Mutie. Ideology and Disabling of Patriarchy in Emecheta’s Joys of Motherhood and Second-Class Citizen. Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (JSSEH). 1.1: (2024): 37-45. ISSN 2791-190X. Print
  7. Ongere, Firdous Nwanyidinma.and Albert Mugambi Rutere. Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Women Identity in Post-Colonial Kenya: An Interrogation of Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s Coming to Birth and the Present Moment. East African Journal of Arts and  Social Sciences 7.1(2024): 445-456. Print ISSN 2707-4277/OnlineISSN:2707-4285. DOI:https://doi.org/10.37284/2707-4285
  8. Rutere Albert Mugambi and Stephen Mutie. The Allegory of Colonisation:(Re) Theorizing Dehumanization in Achebe’s "Things Fall Apart" LIFT: The Journal of  Literature and Performing Arts No. 3 (2024): 25-40. https://journals.mu.ac.ke /index.php/lift /issue /view/21
  9. Mutie Stephen and Albert Mugambi Rutere. Narrating Feminine Rebellion, Dynamism and Resilience in Meja Mwangi’s "The Last Plague LIFT: The Journal of Literature and Performing Arts No 3 (2024): 85-100. https://journals.mu.ac.ke/index.php/lift/issue/view/21  
  10.  Mutie Stephen & Albert Rutere. 2023. (Un)even Cultural Productions: (Re)theorising Silences in the Kenyan Political Life writing. English Studies in Latin America, A  Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism, No. 25 (July 2023). ISSN: 0719-9139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.67603
  11.  Karumba, Njeri Julia, Albert Mugambi Rutere and Nicholas Kamau Goro. Psycho-Feminist Examination of Nurrudin Farah’s Hiding in Plain. East African Journal of  Arts and Social Sciences 6.2: (2023).  148-157. Print ISSN 2707-4277/Online ISSN: 2707-4285. DOI:https://dol.org/10.3728/2707-4285.
  12.  Gitu, Mukami Pamela, Vicky Khasandi and Albert Rutere.  Discursive Strategies Contributing to Stigma towards Involuntary Childless Women in Gikuyu Community. East African Journal of Arts  and Social Sciences 6.1 (2023): 363-377. Print ISSN 2707- 4277/Online ISSN: 2707-4285. DOI:https://dol.org/10.3728/eajass.61.1260.
  13. Gitu, P M, Rutere. A & Khasandi, V.  Non- Verbal Language Contributing to Stigma towards Involuntary Childless Women in the Gikuyu Community, Kenya. European  Journal of Theoretical and Applied Sciences 1(4) (2023): 702-711. ISSSN 2786-7447. DOI: 10.59324/ejtas.2023.1(4).64.
  14.  Murage, Nderitu, Joseph, Albert Mugambi Rutere and Nicholas Kamau Goro. Exercise of Innocuous Power by Female Characters in Selected African Prose Fiction. Jarida la Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika Chuo Kikuu cha
  15. Moi Vol 7.2 (2022): 223-233. ISSN  2412-6993
  16. Wangondu, Benson Kabui, Albert Mugambi Rutere and Nicholas Kamau Goro. Us” versus “Them” Discourse in John Updike’s Novel, ‘Terrorist’. Jarida la Idara ya  Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika Chuo Kikuu cha Moi Vol.  7.2. (2022): 29-36  ISSN  2412-6993
  17. Nderitu M J and Rutere, A.M. Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Different Colours: A Metaphor of   Environmental Activism and Deconstruction of Patriarchy. Jarida la Idara ya  Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika Chuo Kikuu cha Moi Vol. 7.1 (2022):  29-36 ISSN 2412-6993
  18. Mutie, S., and Rutere, A.M. Albinism as a Literary Trope in Goro Kamau’s Ghosts and Fortune Hunters. Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (JSSEH,  2022)  1(1) (2022). 61-68. ISSN 2791-190X
  19. Onkoba, S. O., Rutere, A. M., and Kamau, N. G. Confluence of Kinship and Divinity in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences 3.2
  20. (2022):102-109.Doi: https://doi.org/10.46606/eajess2022v03i02.0164.
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  22. Kamau, N. G., and Rutere, A. M. Greek and African Notions of Spirituality and Gender in Euripides’ The Bacchae and Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A  Communion Rite. Research Journal of English Language and Literature 9.3
  23. (2021): (145-154. Doi: 10.33329/rjelal.9.3.145
  24. Rutere, Albert Mugambi, Mwenzwa, Ezekiel Mbitha and Gatambuki Moses Githigi. (2021). Spotlighting Postgraduate Studies in Kenyan Universities: Strengths, Weaknesses and the Way Forward. In Ed. Motsaathebe, Gilbert.  Education in Africa Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges. New York: Nova Science Publishers.: 47-62. LCCN  2020054875 (print) LCCN 2020054876 (ebook) | ISBN 9781536190434 (hardcover) I SBN 9781536190717 (adobe pdf)
  25. Mwenzwa, Ezekiel Mbitha and Rutere. Albert Mugambi. (2021). University Education in Kenya: Gender and Social Protection Challenges and the Way Forward. In Ed.Motsaathebe, Gilbert Education in Africa Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges.   New York: Nova Science Publishers: 179-192. LCCN 2020054875 (print) | LCCN  2020054876 (ebook) | ISBN 9781536190434 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781536190717 (adobe pdf)
  26. Kirigia, Joses Muthuri 1*, Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri2, Albert Mugambi Rutere3, Eliud Kiruji Kirigia3. COVID-19 in Africa: the poverty, governance and corruption challenges for prevention and control. IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical  Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) e-ISSN: 2279-0853, p-ISSN: 2279-0861.Volume 19, Issue 12 Ser.13 (December. 2020), PP 53-63 www.iosrjournals.org
  27.  Kirigia, Joses Muthuri 1*, Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri 1, Albert Mugambi Rutere & Eliud Kiruji Kirigia 2. International Health Regulations gaps in Africa: A Major challenge for the war against COVID-19? OSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) e-ISSN: 2279-0853, p-ISSN: 2279-0861.Volume 19, Issue 8  Ser.15 (August. 2020): 42-46 www.iosrjournals.org. Print.
  28. Rutere, Albert Mugambi, Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri, Eliud Kiruji Kirigia, Joses Muthuri Kirigia. “Gaps in coverage of water and sanitation in Africa: challenges for  practicing safe hand hygiene to combat spread of COVID-19” In IOSR Journal of  Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT) e-ISSN: 2319- 2402, p- ISSN: 2319-2399.Volume 14, Issue 6Ser. IV (June 2020): 22-25 www.iosrjournals.org. Print.
  29. Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji, Albert Mugambi Rutere, Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri Joses Muthuri Kirigia. “Universal health coverage gaps in Africa: A challenge for COVID-19 management” In IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) e-ISSN:  2279-0853, p-ISSN: 2279-0861.Volume 19, Issue 5 Ser.9 (May. 2020): 42-44 www.iosrjournals.org. Print.
  30. Namayi, Christine, Rutere, Albert Mugambi, Chemwei, Bernard. “Dramaturgies of Female     Representation: A Study of Selected Kenyan Dramas” In African Journal of Education and Social Science. 5 (Feb. 2020): 34-56. ISSN: 2451-0770. Print.
  31. Rutere Albert, Mugambi and Chemwei, Bernard. “Representation(S) of Women in Kenyan Drama: A Study of Selected Kenyan Dramas” In International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities 7.10 (Oct. 2019), 30. Online ISSN: 2582-3574. Print ISSN: 2582-4406. Print.
  32. Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “Feminism Ideology and Institution of Patriarchy in African Novel: Analysis of Selected Works of Women Writers and Gynandrists” Mwanga wa Lugha: Jarida la Idara ya Kiswahili na Lugha Nyingine za Kiafrika Chuo Kikuu cha Moi 4.1. (Sept. 2019): 61-70. Moi University Press. Print. ISSN 2412-6991. Print.
  33. Murage, Joseph Nderitu, Rutere. Albert Mugambi and Goro, Nichols Kamau. “Construction of Referent Social Power in Mariama Ba’s Scarlet Song” In Coretrain Journal of Languages, Humanities, Social Science and Education. 2.1 (April 2019):124-143. ISSN 2363-2470. Print.
  34. Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “Women Uphill Victory in Men’s Downward Revolution Against French Colonialism in Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood” Coretrain Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities 1.1 (Dec, 2018):111-123. Kenya, Print. ISSN 2363-2470. Print.
  35. Mugo, Jane Wanjiru, Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Khasandi-Telewa, Vicky. “Retention of Proverbial Wisdom and Gender Relations in Selected Novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o” Coretrain Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities 1.1 (Dec, 2018):151-167. Print. ISSN 2363-2470. Print.
  36. Ngugi, Beth Njeri, Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Yieke, Felicia. “Constraint-Based Code-switching During ESL Lessons in a Multilingual Classroom and their Implications to Second Language Development “Coretrain Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities 1.1 (Dec, 2018):424-423. Print. ISSN 2363-2470. Print.
  37. Mutie, S, Goro-Kamau, N and Rutere. A.M “Subalternity and Resistance in the Kenya
  38. Political Autobiography: A Critical Look at Not Yet Uhuru and The Flame of Freedom. Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy 2.5 (Sept.-Oct, 2018): 476-483, 2018. Print.
  39. Gatambuki, Moses Gathigia and Rutere, Albert Mugambi “Phonemic Awareness
  40. Instructional Strategies for Elementary Grade Learners in Nyeri County, Kenya: Towards Best Practice” Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities 3 (JSSEH) (2017): 77-86. Print.
  41. Solomon, Syombua Leah, Ndambuki, Jacinta Mueni and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “The   Effect of the Socio-Cultural Male Role in Female Husbands’’ Language Use: A Study of Maweto Marriages Among the Akamba of Yatta Sub County, Kenya” Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (JSSEH) 3 (2017): 110-124. Print.
  42. Kinuu, Caroline, Kirigia, Eliud, and Rutere, Albert. “Gender Differences in Acquisition of English Language Skills Among Students in Secondary Schools in Kenya” Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 5. 11A (2017): 1588-1593. Print. 10.10.
  43. Rutere, Albert and Kirigia, Eliud “Aspects of Pragmabehavioral Errors in the Acquisition of a Second Language: A Case Study of Kimeru L1 Learners of L2 English” Scholars Bulletin 5.10 (2017): 472-480. Print.
  44. Ngugi, Beth Njeri, Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Yieke, Felicia. “The Double Edged Role of Indigenous Languages in National Development: A Case Study of the Lower Primary Classrooms in Kenyan Schools” Journal of Environmental Sustainability Advancement Research 3 (2017): 57-63. Print.
  45. Mugo, Jane Wanjiru, Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Khasandi-Telewa, Vicky. “The Utilization of Proverbial Wisdom in Devil on the Cross” Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 5.2 (2017):172-181. Print.
  46. Musyoka, Benedetta Mueni., Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “The Role of Input Quality in the Acquisition of Past Tense Morphemes by Form One Students: A Case Study of Students in Kauwi Secondary School, Kitui West Sub County, Kenya” Ruwaza Afrika: Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2016): 43-52. Print.
  47. Beru, Peter Wahome, Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Yieke, Felicia. A. “Gendered Language in Nursery Classroom Discourse in Selected Schools in Nyahururu Town, Kenya” Ruwaza Afrika: Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2016): 83-106. Print.
  48. Mwenzwa, Ezekiel Mbitha, Gatambuki, Moses Gathigia and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “A Gender Perspective of University Examination Cheating Strategies among Undergraduates Students in Kenya” Journal of Education and Human Resources (JEDHURE) 8.2 (2016):141-154. Print.
  49. Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji, Gatambuki, Moses Gathigia, and Rutere, Albert Mugambi.  “The Last Shall become First: Gender Paradigm Shift in the Management of Small Scale Tea Farms in South Imenti District, Kenya” Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (JSSEH) 1.2 (2016):66-77. Print. 
  50. Rutere, Albert Mugambi, Mwenzwa, Ezekiel Mbitha and Gatambuki, Moses Gathigia. (2016) “The Resilience and Dynamism of South Imenti Meru District Women in Business, Farming, Education, and Politics” Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (JSSEH) 1.2 (2016):105-120. Print.
  51. Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji, Kiugu, Raphael Kiogora and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “Appraisal of Mother Tongue Education in Kenya: A Case Study of Its Execution in South Imenti, Meru” Ruwaza Afrika: Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities & Social Sciences 3.1 (2015):108-116. Print.
  52. Oguzie, Benaiah and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “Achebe and Ngugi’s Affirmative Views on Construction of Modern African Literature” Ruwaza Afrika: Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities & Social Sciences 3.1 (2015):219-229. Print.
  53. Gathigia, Moses Gathigia and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “Code-switching as a pedagogic approach to the teaching of English as a second language: Teachers’ reflections”. In M. N. Amutabi (Ed.), Africa and the challenges of globalization: Opportunities and Prospects (2015): 364-377. Nairobi, Kenya: Research, the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). ISBN978-9966-015-68-6. Print.
  54. Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “Editorial” “Contemporary Issues on Theory and Practice of Training and Management of Education Personnel in Kenya and Beyond” Journal of African Studies in Education Management and Leadership 4.1 (2014): 3-5. Print.
  55. Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji. “Selected Meru Adult Conversational Songs: The Hidden Instructional Value in Performers’ Pragmatic Rivalry” Journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (JSSEH). 1.1 (2014): 26-46. Print.
  56. Rutere, Mugambi Albert and Kirigia, Eliud Kiruji “By Any Other Name a Rose in the Meru Community of Kenya Does Not Smell As Sweet!” In Wanjiku J. Khamasi et al. Eds. Gender Practices and Challenges: A Call for Accountability: Eldoret: Moi University     Press. (2013):19-27. Print.
  57. Rutere, Albert Mugambi. Foreword. Ruwaza Afrika: Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities and Social Sciences 2.1 (2013):3-8. Kenya, Print.
  58. Rutere, Albert Mugambi, Gathigia, Moses Gathigia, and Mirigi, Susan. (2013). “The Pedagogy of Teaching Literature: Where the Rains Started Beating Us?” In M. N. Amutabi (Ed.), Education and Counseling in Schools in Africa (pp. 351-358). Nairobi, Kenya: Research, the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Print.
  59. Rutere, Albert Mugambi, Gathigia, Moses Gathigia, and Mirigi, Susan. (2013). “The Glaring Deficiency of Logical Connectors in the Writings of Kenyan Secondary School Students”. Nairobi, Kenya. In M. N. Amutabi (Ed.), Studies in Culture, Gender & Education in Africa (pp. 361-372). Nairobi, Kenya: Research, the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Print.
  60. Kiugu, Raphael Kiogora, Kipkoech, Lydia Cherono and Rutere, Albert Mugambi. “The Implication of Metamorphic Paradigm of Kenya’s Education System Since 1963”. In M. N. Amutabi (Ed.), Studies in Culture, Gender & Education in Africa (pp.304-314). Nairobi, Kenya: Directorate of Research, the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). (2013). Print.
  61. Rutere, Mugambi Albert. “Engaging Patriarchy: Women’s Challenges and Hopes in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow.” In Khamasi, Wanjiku, e tal. Eds. Engaging Patriarchy. Eldoret: Moi University Press, (2011). Print.
  62. “Gikuyu Female Circumcision and Woman-Woman Marriage in Engaging Patriarchy.” Journal of Arts and Humanities 8.2 (2011): 48-52, Nigeria. Print.
  63. “Resilience of Female Protagonists in a Intrusive Male Oppression in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.” UNAD Studies in Language and Literature (USILL) 4.1 (Jun.2011): 149-156. Nigeria. Print.
  64. “Materialism and Human relationships in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.” Ruwaza Afrika: Journal of Contemporary Discourse in Language, Literature, Culture, and the Arts. 1.1 (Jun. 2011): 72-82. Nigeria, Print.
  65. “Women Engage Patriarchy in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.” Madonna Journal of English and Literary Studies 2 (2011): 10-15. Nigeria. Print.
  66. Rutere, Mugambi Albert and Samjumi, Zacharia Nyantiso. Classification and Functionality of Hausa and Meru Proverbs: Retention/Utilization of African Proverbial Wisdom in Literary Construction and of Religious Instruction.  Lagos: Gazubu Prints, (2011). Print.
  67. Wanjiku, Khamasi and Albert Rutere. Perspective on Selected Critical Gender Issues in Kenya and Beyond. Eldoret: Moi University Press, (2011). Print.
  68. Rutere, Mugambi Albert. “Women and Fiction: The significance of A Room of One’s Own and the Notion of Five Hundred Guineas a Year.” Focus on Contemporary Issues4. 1. (2011): 1-7. Nigeria. Print.
  69. “In Search of Voice and Love: Janie Crawford’s Struggle with Her Three Husbands in Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Journal of Current Discourse and Research 3 (April.2011): 7-16. Nigeria. Print.
  70. Rutere, Mugambi Albert. Women and Patriarchal Power in Selected Novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Baltimore: Black Academy Press, (2010). Print.
  71. “Ngugi’s Perspective on Women’s Marginalization in Post-colonial Kenya.” Journal of Arts and Humanities 7.1 (2010):13-18. Nigeria. Print.
  72. A Marxist Literary Approach to Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood.” Journal of Arts and Culture   5.1 (2010): 87-92. Nigeria. Print.
  73. Women’s Resilience to Patriarchal Power and Oppression in King Solomon’s Mines by Henry Haggard and The Rape of Shavi by Buchi Emecheta.” Journal of Arts and Culture 5.1 (2010):81-86. Nigeria. Print.
  74. Women’s Reaction to Patriarchy in Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone and Francophone Africa.” International Journal of Arts and Culture n Society 2.2 2010): 108-115. Nigeria. Print.
  75. Frantz Fanon's Developing Views regarding Colonial Rule, 1945-1965.” Journal of Arts and Humanities 7.2 (2010): 93-98. Nigeria, Print.
  76. W.E. B. Du Bois’ Views of Booker. T. Washington’s Accommodationist Policy and the White Man’s “Burden” in the uplift of the Black Race.” African Journal of Arts and Cultural Studies 3.1 (2010): 64-68. Nigeria, Print.
  77. Marriage, Child-bearing, Motherhood, and Caste System: The Patriarchal Roadblocks to Women’s Progress in the Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta.” International Journal of Arts and Culture 2.5 (2010): 44-50. Nigeria, Print.
  78. The Masculine Power and Dominance, and the Treatment of Women in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joy of Motherhood and Mariama Ba’s So long a Letter.” The Ker Review: A Journal of Nigeria Literature 5.2 (July- Dec.2009): 3-16. Nigeria. Print.

 

PAPERS APPEARING IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  1. Rutere, Albert Mugambi. (2018). W.E.B Du Bois and Zora Neale Hustorn on Intellectualism and the Social, Political and Economic Uplift of People of Color in American Society, 272-277. In Conference Proceedings of 27th –29th March, 2018 Faculty of Education Complex- Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya: ISBN: 978-9966-0333-28-4. Print.
  2. Rutere, Albert Mugambi and Ezekiel Mbitha. Mwenzwa. (2015). Hawking University Education in Kenyan Urban Centers: Challenges and Way Forward, 223-228. In: Isutsa, D.K. Proceedings of the First International Research Conference held from 29th to 31st October, 2014 in Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya, 500 pp. Print.
  3. Mwenzwa, Ezekiel Mbitha and Albert Mugambi Rutere. (2015). “Taming Patriarchy: The Tower of Babel in Feminist Discourse”, 494-500. In: Isutsa, D.K. Proceedings of the First International Research Conference held from 29th to 31st October, 2014 in Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya, 500 pp. Print.

PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES IN KENYA AND BEYOND

  1. “Integrating African Wisdom into AI: A Kenyan Case Study of Embedding Meru
  2. Proverbs into AI for Enhancing Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication” by Eliud Kiruji Kirigia and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at KOLA (Kenya Oral Literature Association) a Conference at Diani, Kwale County, Kenya on 26th-29th November, 2025
  3. “Remembering and Re-membering Orality Using Artificial Intelligence”. A paper presented by Joseph Nderitu Murage and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at KOLA (Kenya Oral Literature Association) a Conference at Diani, Kwale County, Kenya on 26th-29th November, 2025
  4. “Reclaiming Agency: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Integration of Gĩkũyũ Narratives in Decolonizing African Historiography” by Stephen Mutie and Albert Rutere. A paper presented at University of Embu, Kenya for Remembrance and Resonance: Honouring Prof. Mwaniki Kabeca and the Place of Oral Tradition in Modern Historical Practice in conference is scheduled for 6th to 7th November, 2025
  5. “White Skin, Black Mask: Interracial Affinities and the Loss of Identity in Mariama   
  6. Ba’s Scarlet Song “ by Joseph Nderitu Murage and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper Presented at The ArtFest Conference at Kenya University, Kenya on   27th-29th August,2025
  7. “The Functionality of Proverbs in Fostering Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication and Collaboration” by Eliud Kirigia and Albert Rutere. A paper presented at  the 6th  Biennial International Conference at Laikipia University, Kenya on 28th-30th  May, 2025
  8. “Retention of Proverbial Wisdom and Gender Relations in Selected Novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o by Jane Wanjiru Mugo and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper Presented in CORETRAIN conference in Laikipia University, Kenya on 16th-17th September, 2017
  9. “Women Upward Victory in Men Downhill Revolution Against French Colonialism in Sembene Ousmane‘s Gods Bits of Wood” by Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented in CORETRAIN conference in Laikipia University, Kenya on 16th-17th September, 2017
  10. “Subaltern and Resistance in Kenyan Political Autobiography: A Critical Look at Not Yet Uhuru and the Flame of Freedom” by Stephen Muthoka Mutie, Albert Mugambi Rutere, and Goro Kamau. A paper presented at Egerton University 11th International Conference held on 29th -31st March, 2017
  11. “Kenyan Political Subaltern Autobiography as a Quest for Salvaging Self” by Stephen Muthoka Mutie, Albert Mugambi Rutere and Goro Kamau. A paper presented at the 3rdChuka University International Research Conference held 26th -28th October, 2016
  12. “Double edged role of indigenous languages in national development: a case of the Lower Primary Classroom in Kenyan schools” by Beth Njeri Ngugi, Albert Mugambi Rutere and Felicia Yieke. A paper presented at the 3rd Chuka University International Research Conference held 26th-28th October, 2016
  13. “Phonemic Awareness Instructional Strategies for Elementary Grade Learners In Nyeri County, Kenya: Towards Best Practice” by Moses Gathigia Gatambuki and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented in 3rd Laikipia University International Conference on 24th –27th May, 2016
  14. “The Effect of the Socio-Cultural Male Role in Female Husbands’’ Language Use: A Study of Maweto Marriages Among the Akamba of Yatta Sub County, Kenya by Leah. S. Solomon, Jacinta Ndambuki& Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented in 3rd Laikipia University International Conference on 24th – 27th May, 2016
  15. “Spotlighting Post-Graduate Studies in Kenya: Strengths, Weakness, and Way Forward” by Moses Gathigia Gatambuki, Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa, and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at conference held at Kisii University, Eldoret Campus on 24th-27th June, 2015
  16. “The Pedagogy of English Idioms: Insights from Applied Linguistics” Moses Gathigia Gatambuki and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at conference held on 24th- at Kisii University, Eldoret Campus on 24th- 27th June, 2015
  17. “Hawking University Education in Urban Centers in Kenya: Challenges and Way Forward” by Albert Mugambi Rutere, Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa and Moses Gathigia Gatambuki. A paper presented at the 1stChuka University International Research Conference held on 29th –31st October, 2014
  18. “Taming Patriarchy: The Tower of Babel in Feminist Discourse” by Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at the 1stChuka University International Research Conference held on 29th -31st October, 2014
  19. “University Examination Cheating Schemes: A Gender Perspective Among Kenyan Students” by Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa, Moses Gatambuki, and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A Paper presented at the 1st National Conference of Faculty of Education and Community Studies of Egerton University on 9th - 10th October, 2014
  20. “The Last Shall become First: Gender Paradigm Shift in the Management of Small Scale Tea Farms in South Imenti District, Kenya” by Moses Gathigia Gatambuki, Eliud Kiruji Kirigia, and Albert Mugambi Rutere.  A paper presented at Laikipia University 2nd International Conference- 20th- 23rd May, 2014
  21. “The Resilience and Dynamism of South Imenti Meru District Women in Business, Farming, Education, and Politics” by Albert Mugambi Rutere, Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa, and Moses Gathigia Gatambuki. A paper presented at Laikipia University 2nd International Conference- 20th- 23rd May, 2014
  22. “Appraisal of Mother Tongue Education in Kenya: A Study Its Execution in South Imenti, Meru” by Eliud Kiruji Kirigia, Raphael Kiogora Kiugu, and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at Laikipia University 2nd International Conference- 20th- 23rd May, 2014
  23. “Expansion of University Education in Kenya: Gender & Social Protection Challenges and the Way Forward” by Albert Mugambi Rutere and Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa. A Paper presented at the conference on The Politics of Social Protection in Kenya Fifty Years after Political Independence-Held in IFRA Office in Nairobi, 2014
  24. “The Metamorphic Paradigm of Kenyan’s Education System” by Dr. Raphael Kiogora. Kiugu and Albert Mugambi Rutere. A paper presented at the Second Annual Conference at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in June, 2013
  25. “The Glaring Deficiency of Logical Connectors in the Writings of Kenyan Secondary School Students” by Albert Mugambi Rutere, Moses Gatambuki, and Susan Mirigi. A paper presented A paper presented at the Second Annual Conference at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in June, 2013
  26. “The Pedagogy of Literature in Kenya’s Education System: Where the Rains Started Beating Us” by Albert Mugambi Rutere and Moses Gathigia Gatambuki. A paper presented at The Second Annual Conference at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in June, 2013
  27. “Achebe and Ngugi’s Affirmative Views on Construction of Modern Africa” by Benaiah Oguzie and Albert Mugambi. Rutere. A paper presented at the First Annual Conference at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in June, 2012
  28. “Selected Meru Adult Conversational Songs: The Hidden Instructional Value in Performers’ Pragmatic Rivalry” by Albert Mugambi Rutere and Eliud Kiruji Kirigia. A paper presented at Laikipia University College in June, 2012
  29. “By any other name a rose in the Meru community of Kenya Does Not smell as Sweet!” by Albert Mugambi Rutere and Eliud Kiruji Kirigia. A paper presented at 2nd International Gender Symposium at Main Campus, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya on January 25-27, 2012
  30. “Marriage, Child-bearing, Motherhood, and Caste System: The Patriarchal Roadblocks to Women’s Progress in the Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta.” A paper presented and appearing in the proceedings of Third International Conference on Research and Development at Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana on November 24-25, 2010.
  31. “Gikuyu Female Circumcision and Woman-Woman Marriage in Engaging Patriarchy.” A paper presented and appearing in the proceedings of World Congress on Research and Development organized by International Research and Development Institute at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria on 6th -7th October, 2010
  32. “Ngugi’s Perspective of Women’s Marginalization in Postcolonial Kenya.” A paper presented at World Congress on Research and Development at the Ebitimi Banigo Auditorium, University of Port Harcourt on February 10- 11, 2010
  33. “Engaging Patriarchy: Women’s Challenges and Hopes in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow.” A paper presented at International Gender Symposium at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya on January 20-23, 2010
  34. “Women’s Reaction to Patriarchy in Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone and Francophone Africa.” A paper presented at Second International Conference on Research and Development at Salle Audio Visuelle Universite Nationale du Benin, Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Republic of Benin on November 24 –27, 2009

RESEARCH WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. “Reconfiguring the Traditional African Oral Literature “by Eliud Kirigia and Albert Rutere
  2. “The Gods Are not to Blame: An Exploration/A Trajectory of Casualties of Romance in Amadi’s The Concubine” by Albert Rutere and Stephen Muties
  3. “The Role/Centrality of Multimodal in the Reading and Interpretation of Oral Narratives” by Eliud Kirigia and Albert Rutere
  4. “Contesting Narratives: Kenyan Political Autobiography and Narrating History from the Fringes of Nation” by Stephen Muthoka Mutie and Albert Mugambi Rutere
  5.  “Restorative Justice in Kenya: Variants from Selected Ethnic Communities” by Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa and Albert Mugambi Rutere.
  6. “Woman to woman Marriage in Kenya: Variants from Different Ethnic Communities” by Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa and Albert Mugambi Rutere.
  7. Gilbert Kabeere M’Mbijjewe: The Man of All Seasons in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya by Albert Mugambi Rutere and Moses Kithinji Mwamba.
  8. Musa M’Ithinji: A Dynamic and Resilient Leader in Colonial and Postcolonial Meru Community of Kenya by Albert Mugambi Rutere and Jenaro Guantai Ithinji.
  9. “The Real and Imaginary Njuurincheke: The Controversial and Seemingly Endless Debate Among the Ameru and Closely Related Tribes” by Professor Gitile Naituli and Albert Mugambi Rutere.
  10. “The Constraint of Academic Excellence in Pursuit of University Education in Kenya” by Raphael Kiogora Kiugu, Eliud Kiruji Kirigia and Albert Mugambi Rutere
  11. “Sabbatical Leave in Institution of Higher Learning in Kenya: Alive and Well or Barely Surviving and limping?” by Raphael Kiogora Kiugu, John Kiumi Kanjogu and Albert Mugambi Rutere.
  12. “The Revered and Unspoken Religion Hangover in the Management of Learning Institutions in Isiolo, Meru, and Tharaka-Nithi Counties, Kenya” by Raphael Kiogora Kiugu, John Kanjogu Kiumi, and Albert Mugambi Rutere.
  13. Meru Oral Literature by Albert Mugambi Rutere, Eliud Kiruji Kirigia and Eliud Mutuiri Kedome.
  14. Introduction to Literature and Literary Criticism by Albert Rutere and  Mugambi Stephen Muthoka Mutie
  15. Didactic Value of Oral and Material Culture of Ameru by Albert Mugambi Rutere,  Koromba Muriungi and Eliud Mutuiri Kedome
  16. Exercise of Innocuous Power by Female Characters in Selected African Prose Fiction Works. By Joseph Nderitu Murage, Albert Mugambi Rutere and Nicholas Kamau Goro.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

  1. Egerton University 11th International Conference held on 24th -26th November, 2020 at Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya
  2. CORETRAIN conference in Laikipia University, Kenya on 16th-17th September, 2017 at Laikipia University Nakuru Campus, Nakuru, Kenya
  3. Egerton University 11th International Conference held on 29th -31st March, 2017 at Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya
  4. “The 3rdChuka University International Research Conference held 26th -28th October, 2016 at Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya
  5. The 3rd Laikipia University International Conference on 24th –27th May, 2016
  6. The conference held at Kisii University, Eldoret Campus, Eldoret, Kenya on 24th-27th June, 2015
  7. The 1stChuka University International Research Conference held on 29th –31st October, 2014 at Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya
  8. The 1st National Conference of Faculty of Education and Community Studies of Egerton University in Kenya on 9th - 10th October, 2014
  9. Laikipia University 2nd International Conference- 20th- 23rd May, 2014 in Laikipia University, Nyahururu, Kenya
  10. The conference on The Politics of Social Protection in Kenya Fifty Years after Political Independence-Held in IFRA Office in Nairobi, Kenya in 2014
  11. The Second Annual Conference at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya in June, 2013
  12. The First Annual Conference at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya in June, 2012
  13. The2nd International Gender Symposium at Main Campus, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya on January 25-27, 2012
  14. The Third International Conference on Research and Development at Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana on November 24-25, 2010.
  15. “The International Research and Development Institute at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria on 6th -7th October, 2010
  16. The World Congress on Research and Development at the Ebitimi Banigo Auditorium, University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria on February 10- 11, 2010
  17. The International Gender Symposium at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya on January 20-23,2010
  18. The International Conference on Research and Development at Salle Audio Visuelle Universite Nationale du Benin, Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Republic of Benin on November, 24 –27, 2009

PERSONS MENTORED AND CO-AUTHORED PAPERS WITH ME FOR CONFERENCE AND PUBLISHING

  1. Dr. Raphael Kiogora Kiugu, Registrar Academics Affairs, Laikipia University. C/o Tel. 0723530577
  2. Dr. Lydiah Cheruto, Lecturer in the department of Curriculum, Educational Administration and Planning, University of Eldoret. C/o Tel.0722770652
  3. Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Senior Lecturer, Karatina University.  C/o Tel. 0722223731
  4. Dr. Moses Gatambuki Gathigia, Lecturer, department of Humanities and Languages, Karatina University. C/o Tel.0721993915
  5. Kagema Njogu, Deputy Registrar Academic Affairs, Karatina University. C/o Tel. 0721467016
  6. Susan Mirigi, High School Teacher in the department of English Language, Chania Girls’ High School. C/o Tel. 0722346221
  7. Dr. Eliud Kiruji Kirigia, Senior Lecturer, department of Literary and Communication Studies, Laikipia University. C/o Tel. 0721849604
  8. Stephen Muthoka Mutie, Lecturer, department of Literature, Kenyatta University and a PhD student at Laikipia University. C/o Tel. 0723449940
  9. Christine Namayi, Assistant Lecturer Department of English Literature Journalism and Mass Communication Kibabii University Kenya. C/o Tel. 0722393425
  10. Joseph Nderitu Murage, Teacher of English and Literature, Bishop Edward Donovan Mixed Day Secondary School, Nakuru. C/o. Tel. 0721953867

SUPERVISION OF MA STUDENTS

  1. Leah Syombua Solomon. Title of the proposal for Master Degree;’ “The Effect of Socio- Cultural Male Role in Female Husbands’ Language Use: A Study of Iweto Marriage Among the Akamba in Yatta District, Machakos County, Kenya” Laikipia University. Graduated in December, 2017
  2. Peter Wahome Beru. Title of the proposal for a Master Degree: “Gendered Language in Nursery Classroom Discourse in Selected Schools in Nyahururu Town, Kenya” Laikipia University. Graduated in October, 2016
  3. Benedetta Mueni Musyoka. Title of the proposal for Master Degree: “The Role of Classroom Input in the Acquisition of Past Tense Morpheme in English Among Form One Students: A Case Study of Kauwi School in Kitui West District, Kenya” Laikipia University. Graduated in October, 2016.
  4. Jane Wanjiru Mugo. “The Use of Proverbs in Gakaara Wa Njau Gikuyu Written Wa Nduta’s Narratives” Laikipia University.  Graduated in November, 2015
  5. Benson Kabui Wang’ondu. Title of the proposal for Master Degree: “Islam and the Terrorist Ideology in Khalid Hosseni’s And Mountains Echoed, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns” Laikipia University.  Graduated in December, 2018
  6. Firdous Nwanyidima Ongere. Title of the proposal for a Master Degree of Arts in Literature: “Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Construction of Women in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s Coming to Birth and Present Moment” Laikipia University. Being examined for defense and possible graduation in December, 2024.

SUPERVISION OF PhD STUDENTS

  1. Beth Njeri Ngugi. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics “Code-Switching in English Language Classroom in Kenyan Primary Schools: A Structural Perspective “Laikipia University. Graduated in December, 2017.
  2. Caroline Kagwiria Kinuu. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Applied
  3. Linguistics “An Analysis of Pragmatic Errors in L2 English by Kimeru L1 Students in CDF Funded Secondary Schools in Central Imenti Sub County, Meru County, Kenya, Laikipia University. Graduated in December, 2017
  4. Stephen Muthoka Mutie. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “Nationhood, Ethnicity and Identity Construction: A focus on Kenyan Kings Who Reigned and Never Ruled. Graduated in December, 2018
  5. Jane Wanjiru Mugo. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “Retention of Proverbial Wisdom and Gender relations in Selected Novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o” Graduated in December, 2018
  6. Kipkoech Mutai. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “Unmasking the Paradoxies and Nuances of Global Terror: A Case Study of Nurrudin Farah’s Crossbones, Links, Hiding in Plain, Sight, and Knots. Graduated in December, 2018
  7. Christine Namayi. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “Dramaturgies in Female Representation in Selected Kenya Dramas” Kabarak University. Graduated in December, 2021
  8. Joseph Nderitu Murage. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “The Paretian Subversion of Power Legitimacy in Selected Prose Fiction Works by North, East and West African Motherists and Gynandrists” Laikipia University. Graduated in July, 2022
  9. Robert Kamau Kabatha. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy: “Ecological Aesthetics: The Reading of Selected Works of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Henry Ole Kulet” Laikipia University. Deferred.
  10. Benson Kabui Wang’ondu Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy: Terrorism for Identity: A Clash of Cultural, Religious and Political Ideologies in Selected Works of Hamid, Hosseini, Updike and De Lillo. Proceeding to defend at Faculty Level.
  11. Mark Chepkwony Kipkoech. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature:  “Diaspora and Xenophobia: The Paradox of Globalisation in the Selected Works of Igiaba Scego” Transferred to other supervisors.
  12. Stephen Okari Onkoba. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “Interface Between Classical Greek and African Drama: A Critical Analysis of Notions of Spirituality and Justice in Selected Plays” Graduated in July, 2022
  13. Njeri Karumba. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature: “Patriarchy and its Reversal in Selected Novels of Nurrudin Farah and Yvonne Owuor. Doing the write up of thesis
  14. Leah Syombua Solomon. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature:  “Language, Culture and Mysticism in Ntheo-Ngasya Rituals Among the Akamba” Submitted thesis for examination
  15. John Munyiri. Title of proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature “Sexuality: An Agency of Autonomy In Gurnah’s Selected Novels. At Departmental Level
  16. Calorine Chebet. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Literature. “Locating Narrative of Torments in John Mawell Coetzee’s Disgrace, Slowman and Waiting For Barbarians” Graduated in December, 2025
  17. Pamela Mukami Gitu. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy in Gendered Stigmatisation Towards Involuntary Childless Women in the Pronatalist Gikuyu. Graduated in December, 2024

THESES EXAMINED FOR AWARD OF DEGREES

  1. Margaret Njoki Muihia. A Critical Analysis of Athol Fugard’s Social Vision in Four Selected Plays. A Research Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature of Mount Kenya University, Kenya. Passed
  2. Charles Muthee Karia. Code Switching in the Pentecostal Sermon: A Case Study of Mukurweini Gospel Outreach Church, Nyeri County Kenya. A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  3. Innocent.M. Wandabwa.  Verbal Duels in Kenya Primary Schools: A Case Study of Mchongano in Nakuru Municipality Primary Schools. A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  4. Anne Wanjiru Ndung’u. An Analysis of Morphophonogical Processes of Loan Words from English to Gikuyu. A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  5. Jane Wanjiru Mugo. “The Use of Proverbs in Gakaara Wa Njau Gikuyu Written Wa Nduta’s Narratives” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of a Master of Arts in Literature of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  6. Leah S. Solomon. Title of the proposal for Master of Arts Degree In Applied Linguistics:’ “The Effect of Socio-Cultural Male Role in Female Husbands’ Language Use: A Study of Iweto Marriage Among the Akamba in Yatta District, Machakos County, Kenya” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the of the Award of a Master of Arts Degree in Applied Linguistics of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  7. Beth Njeri Ngugi. Title for the Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy: “Code Switching in English Language Classroom in Kenyan Primary Schools: A Structural Perspective” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  8. Caroline Kagwiria Kinuu. Title of the Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy: “An Analysis of Pragmatic Errors in L2 English by Kimeru L1 Students in CDF Funded Secondary Schools in Central Imenti Sub County, Meru County, Kenya” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Linguistics of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  9. Stephen Muthoka Mutie. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy: “Nationhood, Ethnicity and Identity Construction: A focus on Kenyan Kings Who Reigned and Never Ruled” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  10. Jane Wanjiru Mugo. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy: “Retention of Proverbial Wisdom and Gender relations in Selected Novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  11. Eric Kipkoech Mutai. Title of the proposal for Doctor of Philosophy: “Unmasking the Paradoxies and Nuances of Global Terror: A Case Study of Nurrudin Farah’s Crossbones. Links. Hiding in Plain Sight and Knots” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  12. Benson Kabue Wang’ondu. Title of the proposal for a Master Degree of Arts in Literature: “Islam and the Terrorist Ideology in Khalid Hosseni’s And Mountains Echoed, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns” A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a Master of Arts Degree in Literature of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  13. Elizabeth Gachuiri. “The Journey Motif and Social Vision in Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source and I Swear by Apollo”: A Research Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Master of Arts Degree in Literature of Laikipia University, Kenya. Passed
  14. Christine Namayi. “Dramaturgies of Female Representation in Selected Kenyan Dramas” A Research Thesis Submitted to Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research Kabarak University for the Award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature of Kabarak University, Kenya. Passed
  15. Joseph Nderitu Murage. “The Paretian Subversion of Power Legitimacy in Selected Prose Fiction Works by North, East and West African Motherists and Gynandrists” Laikipia University. Passed

MEMBERSHIP TO COMMITTEES BEYOND LAIKIPIA

  1. January, 2017 to present, Alternate patron of Njuurincheke Council of Elders, Nkuene Location, Meru County
  2. September, 2016 to May, 2024. Chair, Board of Management, Nkuene Boys Secondary School, Meru County, Kenya
  3. February, 2015, Chair, Cultural Committee, Laikipia University
  4. October, 2014 to present, pre-qualified reviewer and evaluator of MA and PhD degree programmes in Linguistics and Literature with Commission of University Education, Kenya
  5. September, 2014, a member of the task force of eminent persons appointed by His Excellency, Governor of Meru County, Kenya to write Kimeru-English Dictionary
  6. August, 2013 to present, a member of Meru Njurincheke Council of Elders
  7. July, 2014, assessor of research proposals and papers to be published for the Directorate of Research, Laikipia University
  8. 2013 to present the founder of Usoni Investment Group, Imenti South District, Kenya
  9. 2012 to September, 2016  a member of Board of Governors of Nkuene Boys Secondary School in South Imenti District, Meru County
  10. 2011 to present voluntary advising of both private and public sponsored Masters and PhD students in developing concepts and writing proposals in their respective disciplines in South Imenti District, Meru County
  11. 2011 to present Associate Editor, Journal of African Studies in Education Management and Leadership (JASEML), Kenya
  12. 2011: Editor of Perspective on Selected Critical Gender Issues in Kenya and Beyond of Moi University Press, 2011 Eldoret, Kenya
  13. Spring 2011: Administering and Grading Writing Proficiency Placement Tests. Also, was fully involved in mock interviews of students proceeding for internship at American University of Nigeria
  14. Fall 2010: Administering and Grading Writing Proficiency Placement Tests and edited Students’ Code of Conduct Document of American University of Nigeria
  15. 2009 to 2011: Senior Patron and Mentor of Unique Fitness Club, Ribadu Square, Jimetta, Yola, Nigeria
  16. Fall 2008 and Spring 2009: Registration and orientation of Freshmen/women of American University of Nigeria
  17. Fall 2009 and Spring 2010: Administering and Grading Writing Proficiency Placement Tests, served in Students Affairs Committee. Also, was engaged in preparing students for future careers at American University of Nigeria

UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY SERVICE

  1. January, 2017 to present, Alternate patron of Njuurincheke Council of Elders, Nkuene Location, Meru County
  2. September, 2016 to May, 2024, Chair, Board of Management, Nkuene Boys Secondary School, Meru County, Kenya
  3. February, 2015 , Chair, Cultural Committee, Laikipia University
  4. October, 2014 to present, pre-qualified reviewer and evaluator of MA and PhD degree programmes in Linguistics and Literature with Commission of University Education, Kenya
  5. September, 2014, a member of the task force of eminent persons appointed by His Excellency, Governor of Meru County, Kenya to write Kimeru-English Dictionary
  6. August, 2013 to present, a member of Meru Njurincheke Council of Elders
  7. July, 2014, assessor of research proposals and papers to be published for the Directorate of Research, Laikipia University
  8. 2013 to present the founder of Usoni Investment Group, Imenti South District, Kenya
  9. 2012 August, 2016, a member of Board of Governors of Nkuene Boys Secondary School in South Imenti District, Meru County
  10. 2011to present voluntary advising of both private and public sponsored Masters and PhD students in developing concepts and writing proposals in their respective disciplines in South Imenti District, Meru County
  11. 2011 to present Associate Editor, Journal of African Studies in Education Management and Leadership (JASEML), Kenya
  12. 2011: Editor of Perspective on Selected Critical Gender Issues in Kenya and Beyond of Moi University Press, 2011Eldoret, Kenya
  13. Spring 2011: Administering and Grading Writing Proficiency Placement Tests. Also, was fully involved in mock interviews of students proceeding for internship at American University of Nigeria
  14. Fall 2010: Administering and Grading Writing Proficiency Placement Tests and edited Students’ Code of Conduct Document of American University of Nigeria
  15. 2009 to 2011: Senior Patron and Mentor of Unique Fitness Club, Ribadu Square, Jimetta, Yola, Nigeria
  16. Fall 2008 and Spring 2009: Registration and orientation of Freshmen/women of American University of Nigeria
  17. Fall 2009 and Spring 2010: Administering and Grading Writing Proficiency Placement Tests, served in Students Affairs Committee. Also, was engaged in preparing students for future careers at American University of Nigeria

 

CONSULTANCIES

  1. 2023 Organised stakeholders’ workshops and designed curricula for Masters and PhD programmes in Literature and Applied Linguistics for the School of Education of Meru University of Science and Technology

AWARDS

  1. 2010 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service to the University, Community, and Profession, School of Arts and Sciences, American University of Nigeria
  2. 2009 Graduate Scholarship Award of English and Language Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
  3. 1989/1990 ODA/British Council Scholarship to pursue MSC in Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  1. Post-colonial African Literature and Women Studies
  2. Proverbial Wisdom and Gender Issues in African Orature
  3. Integrating AI into African Cultural Heritage
  4. Issues in Language Use, Literature, Politics, and Social Justice, Gender Issues in Education, Equity and Efficiency in Education
  5. Literature of the African Diaspora and Victorian Literature

MEMBERSHIP TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  1. Kenya Oral Literature Association
  2. Kenya Non-Fiction and Academic Authors Association
  3. Kenya Association of Educational Administration and Management
  4. International Research and Development Institute (IRDI) University of Calabar, P.O. Box 3641, Calabar, Cross River State,Nigeria
  5. Research, and Training (CORETRAIN), affliate of Directorate of Research, Consultancy and Outreach of Laikipia University
  6. The Institute for Gender Equity, Research and Development (IGERD) at Moi University
  7. Modern Language Association, USA

 

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