Browsing School of Education, Humanities & Social Sciences by Author "Odede, Fredrick Z."

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    • Cultural heritage and the socialization process: a study of Ramogi hill. 

      Odhiambo, Elizabeth A.; Odede, Fredrick Z. (The LAR Center Press, 2012)
      Ramogi hill is held with a lot of reverence among the Luo, the bottom-line being that it was the stopping point of their fore- father, Ramogi, upon his entry into Kenya through Uganda from Southern Sudan. As a result, ...

    • The historical Earth bank enclosures of Western Kenya 

      Odede, Fredrick Z.; Magaga, Gordon O.; Cokumu, Pius O. (Kenya Museum Society, 2009)
      An investigation into the distribution, design and origins of 'Gunda-Buche' -the Luo term for the bank-and-ditch enclosures unique to the northern Nyanza region of western Kenya. No archaeological work had been undertaken ...

    • Secrets in stone 

      Odede, Fredrick Z. (Kenya Museum Society, 2006-01)
      Ohingni (singular: ohinga) are ruins of dry-stone walled settlement enclosures unique in Kenya and East Africa. They are architecturally similar to the dry-stone structures of Zimbabwe and Botswana, though less skillfully ...