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Title Establishing ethos and envisioning a new Africa: Kwame Nkrumah's invention at the 1958 All-African People's Conference
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1560
Date 2015
Author(s) Mehsah, Eric O.
Abstract In 1958, Kwame Nkrumah, the Prime Minister of Ghana, called for a conference of independent heads of state in Africa. It was a novelty in Africa. The conference was to provide a formal continental platform for the political deliberation of Africa by Africans. The paper carefully focuses on the nuances and purpose of Nkrumah's invention. First, the work argues that Nkrumah strategically invented a rhetoric which sought to establish his ethos as a Pan Africanist whose leadership was crucial in the quest to free Africa from colonial domination. Secondly, the paper examines, through Nkrumah's rhetoric, how the deliberative nature of the Accra conference was turned into an epideictic one. This paper has implication(s) for the role of rhetoric in the decolonisation of Africa.
Subject(s) Kwame Nkrumah; Ethos; Africa
Language en
Publisher University of Namibia
Type of publication Article
Identifier Mensah, E.O. (2015). Establishing ethos and envisioning a new Africa: Kwame Nkrumah's invention at the 1958 All-African People's Conference. Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1&2), 103-115.
Repository Windhoek - University of Namibia
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