The African Origins of Rhetoric (African Studies) by Cecil Blake
By Cecil Blake
Through a serious research of old African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical idea and demanding situations what's usually complex because the "darkness metaphor" -- the rhetorical building of Africa and Africans. Blake bargains an intensive exam of Ptah-hotep and center African moral ideas (Maat) and engages rhetorical scholarship in the wider discourse of African improvement. In so doing, he establishes an immediate dating among rhetoric and improvement reviews in non-western societies and highlights the chance for making use of such rules to ameliorating the improvement malaise of the continent.
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