Eunice Kamaara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eunice Kamaara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eunice |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamaara |
| SIGNATURE | KAMAARA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2233-5365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Confluence of Communal-Individual-Societal Attitudes Towards Catholic Priesthood in The Nandi Community in Nandi County, Kenya
Celibacy in the Catholic Church was considered a matter of personal choice in the Apostolic Church but over time, priestly celibacy has gained legitimacy and mandates through canons, decretals, canon law and encyclicals. Priestly celibacy has generally gained societal and cultural acceptance among the European-centric and the American-centric cultures but save for an insignificant number of incontinent priests. The African Synod of 1994 held in R…
Alternate Expressions of Islam Through Film Videos in Kenya
This article investigates the ways in which Muslim actors in film video in Kenya make interpretations and reinterpretations of Islamic positions on gender roles, veiling, and women’s education. The foundational discourse on gender roles, women’s education, and veiling is contained in primary sources like the Qur’an and hadith. Muslim scholars articulate this discourse in mosque sermons and madrassa teachings. In the side lines of these official s…
Ghosts of Bilateralism
International audience
The Growing Socio-Cultural Acceptance of Priestly Celibacy among the Indigenous Nandi Community in Nandi County, Kenya
Priestly celibacy, a distinctive characteristic of the ministerial priesthood in the Catholic Church, has courted controversies within and outside the Church. Indigenous African communities largely held a cultural and philosophical thought on marriage as a foundation of continuity of life. Few studies have examined the emergence of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church and due to the existing contextual gaps in studies on priestly celibacy, th…
Mutuality in engaged North–South transnational higher education partnerships
The quality of transnational higher education partnerships (THEPs) has increasingly come under scrutiny with the growing role of higher education in development. Mutuality has emerged as a key focus of this examination. We seek to understand how mutuality is expressed within North–South THEPs that have a major focus on community engagement. We refer to THEPs with this focus as engaged transnational higher education partnerships (ETHEPs). This stu…
From short-term engagements to meaningful and equitable global health partnerships
The struggle for global health equity is complex, often fueled by a desire for quick solutions. Though global health should be a broad, 'big-tent' endeavor, quite often it gets simplified to the immediacy of clinical medicine. Short-term global engagements in global health (STEGH), like medical missions and student trips, embody this impulse. These, like many other aspects of global health, have roots in the late 19 th century as a largely neocol…
Re-imagining Moralities and Masculinities in the Context of Male Circumcision and Marriage in South-Western Kenya Communities
Male circumcision and marriage are significant cultural practices that mark a critical stage in a person’s life in many African societies. Many rites of passage that exist, circumcision and marriage are intertwined. Marriage and circumcision like other cultural themes have attracted wide scholarship of diverse depths. Such studies have underlined, among others, the nature, forms, types and even the place of the two initiation rites in society. Wh…
The Routledge Handbook of African Theology
Whether the history of Christianity is traced to before, during, or after the birth of Jesus, the Christian faith reached Africa within the first few years of its inception. Both written and oral secular and biblical (both New and Old Testament) sources indicate that vibrant cultural and commercial interactions existed between Israel and the Middle East long before the birth of Christ. The holy family of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus sought refuge in E…
Prioritising African perspectives in psychiatric genomics research
Psychiatric genomics research with African populations comes with a range of practical challenges around translation of psychiatric genomics research concepts, procedures, and nosology. These challenges raise deep ethical issues particularly around legitimacy of informed consent, a core foundation of research ethics. Through a consideration of the constitutive function of language, the paper problematises like‐for‐like, designative translations w…
Investigating assumptions of vulnerability
Psychiatric genetic research investigates the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders with the aim of more effectively understanding, treating, or, ultimately, preventing such disorders. Given the challenges of recruiting research participants into such studies, the potential for long‐term benefits of such research, and seemingly minimal risk, a strong claim could be made that all non‐acute psychiatric inpatients, including forensic and involuntar…
Faith and healthcare providers’ perspectives about enhancing HIV biomedical interventions in Western Kenya
Adult HIV prevalence in Kenya was 5.9% in 2017. However, in the counties of Kisumu, Siaya, and Homa Bay, HIV prevalence was over 15%. Biomedical interventions, including home-based testing and counselling (HBTC), HIV treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provide opportunities to reduce HIV transmission, particularly in rural communities with limited access to health services. Faith-based institutions play an important role in the Kenyan s…
Improving Access to Maternal Health Care through Devolution in Western Kenya
Devolution was greeted with great anticipation in Kenya as a means of bringing services closer to the people. However, since the implementation of the recent devolution reforms, criticism has mounted, with evidence of corruption, poor management, late payment of county staff and considerable disaffection among service providers, especially health professionals. In this study, we examine health-care users’ and providers’ perceptions of the effect …
“We Hide Under the Scriptures”
Community Perspectives on Research Consent Involving Vulnerable Children in Western Kenya
Involving vulnerable pediatric populations in international research requires culturally appropriate ethical protections. We sought to use mabaraza, traditional East African community assemblies, to understand how a community in western Kenya viewed participation of children in health research and informed consent and assent processes. Results from 108 participants revealed generally positive attitudes towards involving vulnerable children in res…
Towards Christian National Identity in Africa
Ethnic conflicts characterise much of Africa today. While Christian values are expected to foster national cohesion and identity, more often than not, Christianity has provided a convenient and effective rallying point around which ethnic conflicts are mobilised. This writer adopts a historical perspective to interrogate negative ethnicity and the Church in Africa using illustrations from Kenya. She challenges the Church to ‘re-route’ its mission…
Reproductive and sexual health problems of adolescent girls in Kenya
Young women growing up in a poor country like Kenya face multiple discrimination on the basis of sex, age and economic status. Although pre-marital sex is condemned in nearly all societies, and young, unmarried people, especially young women, are not expected to be sexually active, the gap between expected and actual behaviour is enormous. In sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of young girls are sexually active, sometimes with multiple partners. St…
Improving Access to Maternal Health Care through Devolution in Western Kenya
Devolution was greeted with great anticipation in Kenya as a means of bringing services closer to the people. However, since the implementation of the recent devolution reforms, criticism has mounted, with evidence of corruption, poor management, late payment of county staff and considerable disaffection among service providers, especially health professionals. In this study, we examine health-care users’ and providers’ perceptions of the effect …
Towards Christian National Identity in Africa
Ethnic conflicts characterise much of Africa today. While Christian values are expected to foster national cohesion and identity, more often than not, Christianity has provided a convenient and effective rallying point around which ethnic conflicts are mobilised. This writer adopts a historical perspective to interrogate negative ethnicity and the Church in Africa using illustrations from Kenya. She challenges the Church to ‘re-route’ its mission…
Reproductive and sexual health problems of adolescent girls in Kenya
Young women growing up in a poor country like Kenya face multiple discrimination on the basis of sex, age and economic status. Although pre-marital sex is condemned in nearly all societies, and young, unmarried people, especially young women, are not expected to be sexually active, the gap between expected and actual behaviour is enormous. In sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of young girls are sexually active, sometimes with multiple partners. St…
Community Perspectives on Research Consent Involving Vulnerable Children in Western Kenya
Involving vulnerable pediatric populations in international research requires culturally appropriate ethical protections. We sought to use mabaraza, traditional East African community assemblies, to understand how a community in western Kenya viewed participation of children in health research and informed consent and assent processes. Results from 108 participants revealed generally positive attitudes towards involving vulnerable children in res…
Reproductive and sexual health problems of adolescent girls in Kenya
Young women growing up in a poor country like Kenya face multiple discrimination on the basis of sex, age and economic status. Although pre-marital sex is condemned in nearly all societies, and young, unmarried people, especially young women, are not expected to be sexually active, the gap between expected and actual behaviour is enormous. In sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of young girls are sexually active, sometimes with multiple partners. St…
Towards Christian National Identity in Africa
Ethnic conflicts characterise much of Africa today. While Christian values are expected to foster national cohesion and identity, more often than not, Christianity has provided a convenient and effective rallying point around which ethnic conflicts are mobilised. This writer adopts a historical perspective to interrogate negative ethnicity and the Church in Africa using illustrations from Kenya. She challenges the Church to ‘re-route’ its mission…
Community Perspectives on Research Consent Involving Vulnerable Children in Western Kenya
Involving vulnerable pediatric populations in international research requires culturally appropriate ethical protections. We sought to use mabaraza, traditional East African community assemblies, to understand how a community in western Kenya viewed participation of children in health research and informed consent and assent processes. Results from 108 participants revealed generally positive attitudes towards involving vulnerable children in res…
“We Hide Under the Scriptures”
Improving Access to Maternal Health Care through Devolution in Western Kenya
Devolution was greeted with great anticipation in Kenya as a means of bringing services closer to the people. However, since the implementation of the recent devolution reforms, criticism has mounted, with evidence of corruption, poor management, late payment of county staff and considerable disaffection among service providers, especially health professionals. In this study, we examine health-care users’ and providers’ perceptions of the effect …
Faith and healthcare providers’ perspectives about enhancing HIV biomedical interventions in Western Kenya
Adult HIV prevalence in Kenya was 5.9% in 2017. However, in the counties of Kisumu, Siaya, and Homa Bay, HIV prevalence was over 15%. Biomedical interventions, including home-based testing and counselling (HBTC), HIV treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provide opportunities to reduce HIV transmission, particularly in rural communities with limited access to health services. Faith-based institutions play an important role in the Kenyan s…
Prioritising African perspectives in psychiatric genomics research
Psychiatric genomics research with African populations comes with a range of practical challenges around translation of psychiatric genomics research concepts, procedures, and nosology. These challenges raise deep ethical issues particularly around legitimacy of informed consent, a core foundation of research ethics. Through a consideration of the constitutive function of language, the paper problematises like‐for‐like, designative translations w…
Investigating assumptions of vulnerability
Psychiatric genetic research investigates the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders with the aim of more effectively understanding, treating, or, ultimately, preventing such disorders. Given the challenges of recruiting research participants into such studies, the potential for long‐term benefits of such research, and seemingly minimal risk, a strong claim could be made that all non‐acute psychiatric inpatients, including forensic and involuntar…
Re-imagining Moralities and Masculinities in the Context of Male Circumcision and Marriage in South-Western Kenya Communities
Male circumcision and marriage are significant cultural practices that mark a critical stage in a person’s life in many African societies. Many rites of passage that exist, circumcision and marriage are intertwined. Marriage and circumcision like other cultural themes have attracted wide scholarship of diverse depths. Such studies have underlined, among others, the nature, forms, types and even the place of the two initiation rites in society. Wh…
The Routledge Handbook of African Theology
Whether the history of Christianity is traced to before, during, or after the birth of Jesus, the Christian faith reached Africa within the first few years of its inception. Both written and oral secular and biblical (both New and Old Testament) sources indicate that vibrant cultural and commercial interactions existed between Israel and the Middle East long before the birth of Christ. The holy family of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus sought refuge in E…
The Growing Socio-Cultural Acceptance of Priestly Celibacy among the Indigenous Nandi Community in Nandi County, Kenya
Priestly celibacy, a distinctive characteristic of the ministerial priesthood in the Catholic Church, has courted controversies within and outside the Church. Indigenous African communities largely held a cultural and philosophical thought on marriage as a foundation of continuity of life. Few studies have examined the emergence of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church and due to the existing contextual gaps in studies on priestly celibacy, th…
Mutuality in engaged North–South transnational higher education partnerships
The quality of transnational higher education partnerships (THEPs) has increasingly come under scrutiny with the growing role of higher education in development. Mutuality has emerged as a key focus of this examination. We seek to understand how mutuality is expressed within North–South THEPs that have a major focus on community engagement. We refer to THEPs with this focus as engaged transnational higher education partnerships (ETHEPs). This stu…
From short-term engagements to meaningful and equitable global health partnerships
The struggle for global health equity is complex, often fueled by a desire for quick solutions. Though global health should be a broad, 'big-tent' endeavor, quite often it gets simplified to the immediacy of clinical medicine. Short-term global engagements in global health (STEGH), like medical missions and student trips, embody this impulse. These, like many other aspects of global health, have roots in the late 19 th century as a largely neocol…
The Confluence of Communal-Individual-Societal Attitudes Towards Catholic Priesthood in The Nandi Community in Nandi County, Kenya
Celibacy in the Catholic Church was considered a matter of personal choice in the Apostolic Church but over time, priestly celibacy has gained legitimacy and mandates through canons, decretals, canon law and encyclicals. Priestly celibacy has generally gained societal and cultural acceptance among the European-centric and the American-centric cultures but save for an insignificant number of incontinent priests. The African Synod of 1994 held in R…
Alternate Expressions of Islam Through Film Videos in Kenya
This article investigates the ways in which Muslim actors in film video in Kenya make interpretations and reinterpretations of Islamic positions on gender roles, veiling, and women’s education. The foundational discourse on gender roles, women’s education, and veiling is contained in primary sources like the Qur’an and hadith. Muslim scholars articulate this discourse in mosque sermons and madrassa teachings. In the side lines of these official s…
Ghosts of Bilateralism
International audience
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Alternative medicine (3 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)