Companion to African Rhetoric

Segun Ige teaches in the English Department at Howard University.Gilbert Motsaathebe is a research professor at the North-West University.Omedi Ochiengis visiting professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

A Companion to African Rhetoric does a wonderful job of introducing the diversity of concerns, objects, and approaches in the study of African rhetorics.

• ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Segun IgePart I: Conceptualizing African Rhetoric1.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 Ahmed3.African Oral Tradition: A Twenty-First Century PerspectiveRewai Makamani4.Classical Rhetorical Ethics: Implications for African RhetoricSegun IgePart II: African Political Rhetoric5.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 PartiesPetrina Batholmeus and Jairos Kangira7.Alienation in Contemporary African Presidential Rhetoric: Muhammadu Buhari and Biafra Rhetorical PerformanceAliyu Yakubu Abdulkadir Part III: African Rhetoric, Languages, and Literature8.An Afrocentric Appro