{"product_id":"a-companion-to-african-rhetoric-9781793647658","title":"A Companion to African Rhetoric","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Companion to African Rhetoric does a wonderful job of introducing the diversity of concerns, objects, and approaches in the study of African rhetorics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kundai Chirindo, Lewis \u0026amp; Clark College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Companion to African Rhetorics is long overdue. Editors Ige, Motsaathebe, and Ochieng, along with 17 other scholars, have assembled the most comprehensive introduction—to date—to the breadth and depth of scholarship in African rhetorical traditions, showcasing surprisingly diverse theoretical origins, practices, languages, and literatures. In brilliant comparative fashion, each essay in this collection either disrupts, enriches, or troubles existing assumptions about what is (or is not) inherently African, rhetorical, democratic, and diasporic, attending to communicative theories and practices that have emerged from within—or more importantly, emerged across and between—colonial borders and contexts. Wenze kahle!\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tarez Samra Graban, Florida State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The first of its kind among studies of rhetoric in Africa, A Companion to African Rhetoric is a rich collection of essays covering a wide variety of rhetorical topics. With exceptional depth and scope—from deft theoretical treatises to insightful rhetorical analyses, critical commentaries, and empirical studies—the book will be a game changer in rhetorical studies, in global and comparative rhetorics. And it will likely set a new paradigm for the study of African and African Diaspora rhetorics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kermit Campbell, Colgate University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Segun Ige\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Conceptualizing African Rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat is African Rhetoric? The Constitutive Imagination in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eOmedi Ochieng \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eTowards an Understanding of African Rhetoric: A Decolonial Approach \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eYunana Ahmed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eAfrican Oral Tradition: A Twenty-First Century Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eRewai Makamani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eClassical Rhetorical Ethics: Implications for African Rhetoric\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegun Ige\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: African Political Rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eReal and Imagined: African Union’s 100-Year Construction of Africa (1963-2063)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eSegun Ige \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eA Tale of Two Namibian Political Parties: A Stylistic and Rhetorical Analysis of the 2014 Election Manifestos of SWAPO and DTA Political Parties\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePetrina Batholmeus and Jairos Kangira\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eAlienation in Contemporary African Presidential Rhetoric: Muhammadu Buhari and Biafra Rhetorical Performance\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAliyu Yakubu Abdulkadir \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: African Rhetoric, Languages, and Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Afrocentric Approach to Understanding ‘Face’ and the Rhetoric of Collective Identity Busayo Ige\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraphological Strategizing as Solution to Problems of Linguistic Heterogeneity: Translatability and Orality in Written Poetic Discourse of English Expression \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eMabel Osakwe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eAfrican Rhetoric as an Emergent Subfield: A Review of Literature and Reflections on Critical Issues\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Henaku and Ruby Pappoe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eAfrican Rhetoric and Literature: A Journey through Words and Writings \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eYoruba Chants and Chanting as Rhetorical Devices \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eYomi Daramola, Femi Abiodun, and Olusegun Titus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eCalypso Poetics: The Rhetoric of Trinidad’s Lingua Franca\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eKela Francis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eA History of African American Orature, the Badman Hero, and Gangster Rap\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis Winston \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom a Grubby turf to a dome: Praise Poetry as a rhetorical stratagem in political domain Stanley Madonsela\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRhetoric, Orality and Embryonic Trends in Africa and Beyond: Unpacking the Oratorical Genius of Mbuli \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilbert Motsaathebe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Rhetoric and Religion in Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eEpistemological Considerations of Religious Rhetoric in Africa: Language, Spirituality, and Incantation Discourse \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eRufus O. Adebayo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042690105687,"sku":"9781793647658","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793647658.jpg?v=1750955195","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-african-rhetoric-9781793647658","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}