|
4th Edition - 2011 Newsletter, Balagha, now available for download |
|
Contents
| | | Editorial | | | AAR News | 4 | African Rhetoric Book Project | | | Call for Submissions | 6 | From the Press: | | | Impoliteness in Context, Busayo Ige | 9 | 2011 Conference Report | | | Inter-Cultural Negotiation of the Global Space | 10 | Article | | Patrick Bond South Africa at the Durban Climate Summit | 21 | | Oration | | A Promise of Transformational Leadership | 40 | Inaugural Address Jonathan Goodluck | 40 | | Book Received Bending Opinion | 44 | Poetry Timely Deeds Mother. . . The Part We Share | 44 45 |
The newsletter is in PDF format and can be saved to your desktop. If you cannot view the PDF, please click here to download a free PDF reader. |
|
3rd Edition - July-Sept 2010 Newsletter, Balagha, now available for download |
|
| Contents | | | Editorial | 3 | | AAR News | | | • AAR, AJR and Balagha | 4 | | African Journal of Rhetoric: Contents | | | • AJR Vols 1 and 2 | 5-6 | | 2011 Conference Announcement | | | • Inter-Cultural Negotiation of the Global Space | 7 | | Rapporteur's Notes | | | • 2010 and Beyond: Architecture and the City | 9 | | • Photo gallery | 14-15 | | Speeches | | | • After The War: The Day Mbeki Spoke in Latin | 16 | | • Cathage Must be Rebuilt Thabo Mbeki | 18 | | Poerty | | | • Abiku | 28 |
The newsletter is in PDF format and can be saved to your desktop. If you cannot view the PDF, please click here to download a free PDF reader. |
|
2nd Edition - May 2010 Newsletter, Balagha, now available for download |
 |
The newsletter is in PDF format and can be saved to your desktop. If you cannot view the PDF, please click here to download a free PDF reader. |
|
|
African Journal of Rhetoric - Volume II |
 | The second edition of the African Journal of Rhetoric has recently been published. This volume is a compilation of refereed papers from the Second Biennial International Conference of the African Association for Rhetoric (July 1-3 2009). The conference was entitled: Rhetoric in the times of AIDS: African Perspectives. Click here for more details and a subscription form. |
|
Call for Papers - The 3rd International Biennial Conference of the African Association for Rhetoric June 30-July 2 2011  | Current research in leadership has revealed that society does not really trust the leaders that they elect or appoint to leadership positions. Very few social and political systems across the globe today can boast of good leadership. Most crises that the world faces today, poverty, conflict, epidemics, financial meltdown, environmental degradation, energy cirises and other kinds of disasters are blamed on the leadership structures that are responsible for maintaining stability in these respective sectors. All of these systems have their attendant rhetoric or rhetorical processes through which they seek to foster cohesion and restoration of their sectors or communities. The role and importance of rhetoric in different fora are not yet crystallised, particularly how these impact on Africa, either within the cohort of African states or in their interaction with the rest of the world. |
| | Since the African Association for Rhetoric integrates practice and discourse, we will seek to bring together eminent academics, politicians, diplomats scholars and civil society representatives in pertinent areas to deliberate on relevant issues at the conference. We seek to make these operatives partners in knowledge production. This multidisciplinary conference will be of interest to specialist in the following areas but are not limited to Rhetoric, Law, Philosophy and Ethics, Sociology, Gender Studies, Leadership Studies, Social Development Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, Economic Policy, African Studies and Communication, Peace and Conflict Studies. Submission Deadlines: Abstracts: November 2010; Papers: February 2011
Enquiries and abstracts should be sent to:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
|
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Balagha Number 1.1 - October 2009, now available for download |
 | The newsletter is in PDF format and can be saved to your desktop. If you cannot view the PDF, please click here to download a free PDF reader. |
|
|
Call for Papers
African Presidential Rhetoric The African Journal of Rhetoric (AJR) seeks papers on different aspects of African Presidential Rhetoric. Any observer of African Politics would observe the use and abuse of rhetoric in the African public domain without deep analysis of this phenomenon. There is need for us to discuss African residential rhetoric in all its forms, particularly under civilian regimes. What are the roles that speechwriters play in ideological construction of a state? What is the general character of executive politics in Africa? |
|
Read more...
|
|
African Journal of Rhetoric 2009 This maiden edition of African Journal of Rhetoric is a collection of papers presented at the first colloquium of the African Association of Rhetoric (AAR) and papers that were later solicited from expereinced researchers. This volume critically looks at the role that rhetoric plays during an impasse between Government and civil society. |
|
Read more...
|
|
On the 3rd of July 2007, at the commencement of the one day colloquium entitled Rhetoric Protests and the Economy, I was asked to introduce the Association to the audience, I simply said, ‘we do not have so much that we can yet talk about, but we have a future.’ From then on, the future began. The papers presented at the colloquium were well received and discussions were lively. The papers have been collected into a volume which is due for release by the end of the year. Now the Association can confidently say, ‘We have a history, and we have a future.’ The African Association for Rhetoric is poised to make a difference in our social, political, legal and cultural spheres. |
|
Read more...
|
|
The Quarterly Newsletter of the African Association for Rhetoric, Balagha, is available for download. 
