A companion to African rhetoric. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Segun Ige, Gilbert Motsaathebe, Omedi Ochieng.
• Editors: Ige, Segun; Motsaathebe, Gilbert; Ochieng, Omedi
• Contents: Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction by Segun Ige <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I: Conceptualizing African Rhetoric What is African Rhetoric? The Constitutive Imagination in Olaudah Equiano’s <span style="font-style:italic;">The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings <span style="font-style:italic;">Omedi Ochieng Towards an Understanding of African Rhetoric: A Decolonial Approach <span style="font-style:italic;">Yunana Ahmed African Oral Tradition: A Twenty-First Century Perspective <span style="font-style:italic;">Rewai Makamani Classical Rhetorical Ethics: Implications for African Rhetoric <span style="font-style:italic;">Segun Ige <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: African Political Rhetoric Real and Imagined: African Union’s 100-Year Construction of Africa (1963-2063) <span style="font-style:italic;">Segun Ige A Tale of Two Namibian Political Parties: A Stylistic and Rhetorical Analysis of the 2014 Election Manifestos of SWAPO and DTA Political Parties <span style="font-style:italic;">Petrina Batholmeus and Jairos Kangira Alienation in Contemporary African Presidential Rhetoric: Muhammadu Buhari and Biafra Rhetorical Performance <span style="font-style:italic;">Aliyu Yakubu Abdulkadir <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part III: African Rhetoric, Languages, and Literature An Afrocentric Approach to Understanding ‘Face’ and the Rhetoric of Collective Identity <span style="font-style:italic;">Busayo Ige Graphological Strategizing as Solution to Problems of Linguistic Heterogeneity: Translatability and Orality in Written Poetic Discourse of English Expression <span style="font-style:italic;">Mabel Osakwe African Rhetoric as an Emergent Subfield: A Review of Literature and Reflections on Critical Issues <span style="font-style:italic;">Nancy Henaku and Ruby Pappoe African Rhetoric and Literature: A Journey through Words and Writings <span style="font-style:italic;">Aaron Smith Yoruba Chants and Chanting as Rhetorical Devices <span style="font-style:italic;">Yomi Daramola, Femi Abiodun, and Olusegun Titus Calypso Poetics: The Rhetoric of Trinidad’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Lingua Franca <span style="font-style:italic;">Kela Francis A History of African American Orature, the Badman Hero, and Gangster Rap <span style="font-style:italic;">Dennis Winston From a Grubby turf to a dome: Praise Poetry as a rhetorical stratagem in political domain <span style="font-style:italic;">Stanley Madonsela Rhetoric, Orality and Embryonic Trends in Africa and Beyond: Unpacking the Oratorical Genius of Mbuli <span style="font-style:italic;">Gilbert Motsaathebe <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part IV: Rhetoric and Religion in Africa Epistemological Considerations of Religious Rhetoric in Africa: Language, Spirituality, and Incantation Discourse <span style="font-style:italic;">Rufus O. Adebayo Index About the Authors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (362 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 808.0096; Rhetoric -- Africa; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Africa; African literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793647665
• Related ISBNs: 9781793647658
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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