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A Companion to African Rhetoric, edited by Segun Ige, Gilbert Motsaathebe, and Omedi Ochieng, presents the reader with different perspectives on African rhetoric mostly from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. The African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American rhetorician contributors conceptualize African rhetoric, examine African political rhetoric, analyze African rhetoric in literature, and address the connection between rhetoric and religion in Africa. They argue for a holistic view of rhetoric on the continent.
Contents
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction by Segun Ige
Part I: Conceptualizing African Rhetoric
1.What is African Rhetoric? The Constitutive Imagination in Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Omedi Ochieng
2.Towards an Understanding of African Rhetoric: A Decolonial Approach
Yunana Ahmed
3.African Oral Tradition: A Twenty-First Century Perspective
Rewai Makamani
4.Classical Rhetorical Ethics: Implications for African Rhetoric
Segun Ige
Part II: African Political Rhetoric
5.Real and Imagined: African Union's 100-Year Construction of Africa (1963-2063)
Segun Ige
6.A Tale of Two Namibian Political Parties: A Stylistic and Rhetorical Analysis of the 2014 Election Manifestos of SWAPO and DTA Political Parties
Petrina Batholmeus and Jairos Kangira
7.Alienation in Contemporary African Presidential Rhetoric: Muhammadu Buhari and Biafra Rhetorical Performance
Aliyu Yakubu Abdulkadir
Part III: African Rhetoric, Languages, and Literature
8.An Afrocentric Appro
