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The constraint of a rhetorical invention: Kwame Nkrumah and the Organization of African Unity

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dc.contributor.author Mensah, Eric Opoku
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-10T09:50:59Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-10T09:50:59Z
dc.date.issued 1960
dc.identifier.issn 23105496
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6400
dc.description 27p:, ill. en_US
dc.description.abstract Rhetorical constraints have the potential to inhibit a successful communication transaction. How they do that sometimes practically remains unclear, especially within the study of rhetoric in the African context. This paper examines Kwame Nkrumah’s rhetorical urgency as an argumentative tool for the establishment of an organization which would direct the political, economic and military directions of Africa. Employing Bitzer’s Situation (1968) and Meyer’s Composite Audience (1999) as analytical framework, the paper takes a critical look at Nkrumah’s rhetorical invention to locate the inherent constraints and how they (constraints) eclipsed the total success of Nkrumah’s invention. This study therefore has implications for the episteme of the different contexts within which rhetorical inventions are created and performed within the pan African liberation sphere en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.subject Nkrumah en_US
dc.subject Rhetoric en_US
dc.subject OAU en_US
dc.subject Pan Africanism en_US
dc.subject Colonialism en_US
dc.title The constraint of a rhetorical invention: Kwame Nkrumah and the Organization of African Unity en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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