Robert Wesonga

Interrogating the African Polis: Rhetorical Questions, Pathos, and the Rhetorical Situation in the Selected Speeches of P. L. O. Lumumba

Since antiquity, speechmaking has been a vital medium through which societies articulate ideas, values, and collective concerns to both specific and general audiences. Speeches are media for passing pertinent issues and ideologies from the speaker to the audience. Aristotelian principles of rhetoric- logos (logic), eth...