Sussy Gumo

Datos Biográficos

ID1172437
NOMBRESussy Gumo
NOMBRESSussy
APELLIDOGumo
FIRMAGUMO S
AFILIACIONESMaseno University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H0

  • Prevalence of brucellosis in livestock keepers and domestic ruminants in Baringo County, Kenya

    Open AccessPeter Lokamar, Peter N Lokamar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Brucellosis is widely distributed in more than 170 countries around the world, where it poses a huge threat to animal husbandry and human health. Brucellosis is a worldwide re-emerging zoonotic disease that poses serious public health problems in many developing countries including Kenya. However, prevalence of brucellosis has not been determined in Baringo County, Kenya, yet there is a continuous movement of cattle resulting from trade and grazi…

  • Power dynamics as a determinant of access and utilization of nutrition services by pregnant and lactating adolescent girls in Trans-Mara East Sub-County, Narok County, Kenya

    Open AccessCharles O Opiyo, David Omondi Okeyo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Community access to nutritional services can be increased through use of multiple avenues to reach adolescents, including school-based, health system-based, community-based approaches and even marriage registries. A heightened engagement in the identified stakeholder network is necessary when planning community conversations, to ensure a multi-stakeholder approaches in meeting the nutrition needs of adolescents

  • The Current Situation of Pastoral Programs in the Prisons in Western Kenya Counties

    Open AccessLeakey Mokua Nyaberi, Susan M Kilonzo et al.ARTICLESociology and Anthropology2019Referencias: 3

    Crime generates underestimated substantial costs to society at the individual, community and national levels. Globally, governments use prisons to contain crime. The criminal justice system has two primary goals: justice and a more prominent goal of preventing future crimes by incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation. Globally, a number of prisons have set up pastoral programs to give inmates realistic plans for their lives, as well as help…

  • The Socio-cultural and Historical Basis for the Double Rite of Passage in the Nomiya Church in Kenya

    Open AccessSamuel Otieno Sudhe, Sussy Gumo et al.ARTICLESociology and Anthropology2015Referencias: 4

    This paper explores the socio-cultural and historical background that gives rise to the unique practice of the double rite of passage in the Nomiya Church (NC) in Kenya. The NC as the first African Initiated Church (AIC) in Kenya started among the Luo people, a community that traditionally did not practice circumcision. Circumcision and baptism as religious rites of initiation are simultaneously performed on the male infant on the eighth day afte…

  • A Theological Perspective on the Socio-historical Grounds for Gender Disparity in the Nomiya Church

    Open AccessSamuel Otieno Sudhe, Sussy Gumo et al.ARTICLESociology and Anthropology2015Referencias: 2

    Rites of passage are a universal phenomenon marked by transitions during major life changes. In the Nomiya Church (NC) circumcision and baptism as religious rites of initiation are simultaneously performed on the male infant on the eighth day after birth whereas the female infant gets baptism only but on the fourteenth day. The practice of simultaneous baptism and circumcision is hereby referred to as a double rite of passage. This double rite of…

  • Factors in the management of feeding in nursery school children as perceived by their mothers in rural Bondo County, Kenya

    Open AccessAllan R Were, Allan Were et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2013

    BACKGROUND: The effects of malnutrition on health status and survival of children has been the subject of extensive research for several decades. Malnutrition affects physical growth, cognitive development of children, morbidity and mortality. The current study was an exploratory survey that focused on factors affecting feeding of nursery school children as perceived by their mothers in a rural setting in Usigu Division of Bondo County, Kenya. ME…

  • Communicating African Spirituality through Ecology

    Open AccessSussy Gumo, Simon O Gisege et al.ARTICLEReligions2012

    This review was set in the context of African spirituality and ecology. Specifically, the review addressed issues of African spirituality and the environment from a Kenyan context. Through analyses on existing literature, we examined African worldviews, determined how African spirituality was communicated through the environment, evaluated African ways of regulating the use of the environment, and explored challenges facing African spirituality a…