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The paper focuses on the general analysis and functionality of both the four temperaments and communication theories in an attempt to comprehend the process, nature and reality of politics, campaigns and general elections in Kenya. Temperaments theory classifies human personalities into four major categories: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic. The paper proposes to highlight how having clear knowledge of these personalities in the political contexts may help the general public in electing peacemakers. The paper also puts into focus how aspects of communication theory especially speech event and speech act theories may be used in understanding our political scenes. The speech event has been used to summarize the nature of politics in Kenya while speech act theory shows how political utterances can be misjudged by the audience hence fuelling untold violence, hate and even mass action. May be psychologists and discourse experts can play a key role in describing personalities, temperaments of the leaders and analyze their utterances in order to realize peaceful general elections in Kenya that can be emulated by other African leaders in the East African community. Remember, a peaceful country is very important for any citizen towards realization of its goals so as to uplift the social, political and economic sectors. However, a

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The paper gives an exposition of some adapted English lexemes into Dholuo. The work relied on a descriptive design. Total purposive sampling technique was incorporated in collecting secondary data to saturation level. All the adapted nominal lexemes from the English Dholuo Dictionary (EDD) were collected, qualitatively analyzed, edited and presented thematically by showing the adapted lexemes in various areas. The results indicate that adapted lexemes in this lexicographical work are manifested in the following areas: religion, people, subjects, places, measurements, clothing, vegetables, foodstuff, equipment, vehicles and months. We have gathered that as we adapt some lexemes from English into Dholuo, then phonemes such as /ʃ (sh), z/ automatically change to /s/, /v/ changes to /f/ and /q/ changes to /k/. We have concluded that English consonant phonemes such as / ʃ (sh), z, v, q/ are not manifested in Dholuo. Therefore, translators have to adapt them by using both the transference and naturalization translation procedures in order to achieve the desirable translated text.