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Welcome to the site of Rhetoric in Africa. You will find here information on the Centre for Rhetoric Studies at the University of Cape Town, the Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa and the African Yearbook of Rhetoric , as well as a great deal of information on Rhetoric Research on and in Africa. Our brief is the interface between rhetoric (as the study of deliberation in public affairs) and the development of democracy - by engaging with the international community of scholars and practitioners in rhetoric.
The African Yearbook of Rhetoric is a multi-lingual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the development of rhetoric studies on and in Africa. ISSN: 2220-2188. It is a publication of AfricaRhetoric Publishing.
All correspondence to: africarhetoric@rhetoricafrica.org
Orders can be placed with Clarke’s Bookshop, Cape Town: books@clarkesbooks.co.za
List of Volumes
Vol. 1, Gender Rhetoric: North-South, appeared in September 2010. It will be placed online in 2012.
Vol. 2, 1, on the rhetorics of justice in post-societies, is due for release in July 2011.
Vol. 2, 2 a special issue under the imprint of The Elephant and the Obelisk is coming out in August 2011.
Vol. 2, 3, on The Great Liberation Speeches of Africa, is due for release in December 2011.
Vol. 3, 1, on Surveillance and Rhetorics of control, is due for release in March 2012.
Vol. 3, 2, on “New Beginnings – Democracy and Rhetoric in the South”, is due for release in July 2012.
Vol. 3, 3, on Diplomacy and Statecraft in Africa, is due for release in October 2012.
International Editorial Board
A Special Series, under the imprint of The Elephant and the Obelisk, is to be launched in August 2011. Special Series issues will not be available online.
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AFRICAN YEARBOOK OF RHETORIC Vol.2 No. 1
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GREAT LIBERATION SPEECHES OF AFRICA VOL 2,3
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CONFERENCE POSTERS:
The Development of Rhetoric 22-23 June 2008
Association for Rhetoric and Communication in SA, 5th African Symposium on Rhetoric, 3rd-5th July 2002
Association for Rhetoric and Communication in SA, 4th African Symposium on Rhetoric, 9-10 August 2000
Association for Rhetoric and Communication in SA, Third Symposium, 28-29 August 1998
Newsletter 1/2008
Greetings,
I hope this finds you well and that the turn of the year has been
pleasant. I write this morning to remind everyone about the call for
papers that has been issued by the National Communication Association
(NCA).
Each year, ARCSA sponsors two panels at the NCA meeting in November.
In 2008, the event will convene in San Diego, California. ARCSA's
specific call is appended below. If you are interested, I encourage
you to submit a proposal or paper. Submissions are handled through the
NCA website (www.natcom.org).
With Warm Greetings,
Erik Doxtader
ARCSA CALL FOR 2008 Meeting of the National Communication Association
The Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa
(ARCSA), in collaboration with the Centre for Rhetoric Studies, Cape
Town, invites paper proposals, full papers, and panel proposals.
Broadly, the Association seeks submissions addressed to the history of
rhetoric and/or contemporary topics in rhetorical theory, including
interventions which extend and trouble the anchoring of rhetoric in
philosophy, political theory, or theology. While encouraged,
submissions need not be limited to the study of Southern Africa or
Africa generally.
This year, the Association is particularly interested in receiving
papers and proposals that reflect on the conventional and
unconventional forms of 'rhetorical power' in African politics.
Interpreted broadly, this thematic includes questions such as: In the
wake of colonialism's devastation and brutal post-independence civil
wars, how have various African nations struggled to rebuild political
'norms of rhetorical culture' and forums for collective political
deliberation? Are there features of African politics that challenge or
productively complicate taken for granted views about the theory and
practice of rhetorical argumentation? How do historical and
contemporary forms of African politics confirm and/or critique the
premises of liberalist political theory? What are the rhetorical
lessons of recent elections in Africa?
General inquiries or questions about potential proposals should be
directed to Professor Erik Doxtader at the University of South
Carolina (email: doxtader@gwm.sc.edu).
All submissions must be received by 13 February 2008 and should be
submitted through the All Academic System on the NCA website
(www.natcom.org).
  
7th Biennial African Symposium of Rhetoric, Cape Town, June 2007
The Centre in collaboration with ARCSA, or on its own, organizes or co-organizes regular events (the African Symposium in Rhetoric), while it lends its support to special events. Below, a selective list of conference programmes.
2012
The Third Biennial Conference of the Chinese Rhetoric Society
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2011
"Nuevos comienzos: Justicia, verdad y reconciliación en Argentina, Uruguay y Sudáfrica", Buenos Aires 6-7 December
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Summer University on Argumentation, Ohrid, FYROM
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Argentina’s Association of Rhetoric, Annual Forum, Buenos Aires, June.
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2008
The Conference on Rhetorical Theory : University of South Carolina, October 2008
2007
National Communication Association (USA), 2 sectional meetings held by the Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa, 16 and 17 November 2007.
Chicago, 16th November, 2007
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2007
1st International Colloquium on Rhetoric, Protests and the Economy
Durban, 3rd July, 2007
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2007
7th African Symposium on Rhetoric
Hoerikwaggo Building, Lecture Theatre 1, 22-23 June, 2007
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2004
6th African Symposium on Rhetoric
Cape Town, South Africa, 6-11 June, 2004
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Cezar M. Ornatowski, The Rhetorical Phenomenon of Lech Walesa. Plenary paper, Cape Town 2004. Published in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 2005 (by courtesy of the author).
Read Paper
2002
5th African Symposium on Rhetoric
Roma campus of the National University of Lesotho, 3rd - 5th July, 2002
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2000
4th African Symposium on Rhetoric
University of Zambia, Lusaka, 9-10th August , 2000
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1999
Truth in Politics
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 1999
[in collaboration with IFAS, Johannesburg]
Download the entire volume of Proceedings (with new material), TRUTH IN POLITICS.
Rhetorical Approaches to Democratic Deliberation in Africa and beyond, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Sanya Osha, Wim van Binsbergen (Eds.), published by QUEST An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie, XVI, No. 12002 (actual date of publication: March, 2004)
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1998
3rd African Symposium on Rhetoric
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 28-29th August, 1998
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2003
International conference on Rhétorique et Droits. Law and Sovereignty after Apartheid, held in Paris, at the Academy, in June 2003. This document contains the last text written by Jacques Derrida on truth and forgiveness and one of the last texts written by Paul Ricoeur. It is the uncorrected version of the Proceedings, published by Le Genre Humain, 2004.
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2007
EURICOM Colloquium on Communication and Culture
Piran (Slovenia), 13-15 September, 2007
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Yangzhou University: Salazar delivers a public lecture on rhetoric at the School of Foreign Languages (Yifu Lecture Hall, 18 Nov. 2011).
John Cleese reads Bain’s advert
Lindiwe Mazibuko, Rhetoric Graduate, and Leader of the Opposition
 Erik Doxtader's latest book "With Faith in the Works of Words"
LEADING RHETORICIAN SINGS THE BLUES
Miss Ruvimbo Goredema to graduate cum laude (Masters) in June 2010.
Namibian academic studies cutting edge rhetoric
Salazar Reviewed on Top Public Intellectuals Site
Dr Mathe, latest PhD in Rhetoric
Jonathan Bain, The visual rhetoric of "Daily Voice"
Audrin Mathe on the Namibian Constitution
PhD Monwabisi Gebhuza comments the recent "regime change" in South Africa - Winner of Most Read Article of the Week on www.news24.com
Showcasing best Honours dissertation 2008: Philippa Levenberg on Barack Obama's Vicarious Voice
Salazar receives Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award 2008 from Bridget Oppenheimer, at Brenthurst, Johannesburg, 20 May 2009
View Pictures
The doyen of American Rhetoric, Michael Leff, has passed away, after a long and painful struggle with cancer, he endured stoically. He was a close friend of us in Cape Town, and an ardent supporter of the African connection in rhetoric. He is seen here chairing the diplomatic rhetoric session of our 2004 conference (centre).
Salazar, Annual Kenneth Burke Lecture 2009
Cheryl Glenn, PhJ Salazar, Jan Swearingen, Penn State 2009
Truth and Reconciliation, book launch, 2007
Cezar Ornatowski and Eric Opoku (PhD registrant), Rhetoric and Society colloquium, Anvers, 2011.
Photos from colloquia in Warsaw, Örebro and Cape Town.
  
Warsaw Symposium, 2003. Among the participants: Prof PJ Salazar, Prof J Axer with graduate students for Poland and the Ukraine, and Prof C Ornatowski
  
Cape Town Colloquium, 2004. Among the participants: Prof G Hauser, Prof K Kohrs-Campbell, Prof E Doxtader
  
Orebro, Sweden, 2005 and 2006 colloquia. Prof B. Mral, Prof R Hariman and graduate students
Prof Berit Von Der Lippe, Co-leader of the project with Norway
Maurice Charland sings the blues.
  
Oslo, BI School of Management, project workshop, April 2008
7th Biennial African Symposium of Rhetoric, Cape Town, June 2007
Professor Jairos Kangira obtained his PhD in Rhetoric Studies in 2005, with a thesis on Robert Mugabe’s presidential rhetoric. A former Deputy Dean of Arts at the University of Zimbabwe, he is now a Professor at the University of Namibia. A journalist and fiction writer, he is the founding editor of Nawa, a peer-reviewed journal in communication, rhetoric and language studies. In 2009 he co-edited with Ph-J Salazar a volume on Gender Rhetoric North-South (Windhoek, Poly Press).
Dr Audrin Mathe graduated in 2009 with a PhD in Rhetoric Studies. He recently appointed as Chief News and Programming Officer and Deputy Editor in Chief at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation. In this role, he presides over Television, Radio and News and Current Affairs divisions. He previously served as the Head of Corporate Communication at Roads Authority Namibia. He also worked at the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) as Executive Assistant to the Secretary General and served spokesman and speechwriter to two successive Namibian Prime Ministers. He teaches Communication at the Polytechnic of Namibia and the University of Namibia. In April 2011, he founded the Dr Audrin Mathe Strategies Inc., a consulting firm established to provide political and communication strategy. Dr Mathe regularly provides commentary on media and politics to media organisations and writes extensively on the Namibian constitutional discourse and political rhetoric. He is the President of Karate-Zen Namibia. The Danish Boy Scouts and Scouts of Namibia jointly awarded him the Gilwell Scarf in 1997.
Dr Audrin Mathe
S’fiso Ngesi was the first graduate in Rhetoric ever at UCT. He received his MPhil cum laude, with a rhetorical study of the Open Democracy bill, in 2001. He is a Researcher at the South African Parliament, PC on Transport.
Tel: 27 (21) 403 8166
Fax: 27 (21) 403 8118
sngesi@parliament.gov.za
S’fiso Ngesi
Source: IOL
Lindiwe Mazibuko, Honours 2008 (project on Royal Moroccan Rhetoric)
Lindiwe Mazibuko, Rhetoric Graduate, and Leader of the Opposition
Ms Zarina Adhikari, Mphil 2009 (thesis on T. Mbeki’s rhetorical presidency).
Zarina is now Director in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
Distinguished Visitors 1996-2007
1996
Prof William Leap, American University, Washington D.C. (Anthropology and gay discourse).
Dr Debbie Epstein, University of London (Popular media and sexuality). NRF funded.
Dr Barbara Cassin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne, Paris (Philosophy and rhetoric). NRF funded.
Prof Anita Haya Patterson, University of Illinois at Chicago (The poetics of disobedience and Black protest literature in America). NRF funded.
Prof Jean Rouch, the celebrated film ethnographer, and Dr R Sherman, Museum of Man, Paris (Discourse of anthropology and filming the Other). French Government funded.
1997
Prof Jody Cohen, Department of Communication, Syracuse University, USA. (Methodology and rhetoric of history in Southern Africa).
Prof Beverly Sauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. (Rhetoric of safety in SA mines.) Visit sponsored by the National Science Foundation of the United States. Resulted in a book: The Rhetoric of Risk. Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments (2000).
Prof William L Leap, American University, Washington D.C., USA, now at the University of Cardiff. (Further research on gay men discourse in Cape Town.). Home funding.
Dr Barbara Cassin, Sorbonne, Paris, France (Greek Rhetoric and Philosophy). NRF funded.
Professor Eva Kushner, Past President of Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Canada (Renaissance rhetoric, Human Rights).
Dr Charles Calder, Lusaka, Zambia (Zambian politics, rhetoric in Shakespeare).
1998
Dr William Spurlin, then at Columbia, now at Cardiff (Rhetoric of Gender and Post-Coloniality (South Africa, India).
Prof C Jan Swearingen, then at Texas at Arlington, now at Texas A&M, past President of the Rhetoric Society of America. (Democracy and Rhetoric (Far East/SA). UT Arlington and Distinguished Visitors' Fund. Residency at the Centre acknowledged in her Rhetoric, The Polis, and the Global Village (1999).
Dr Cecilia Pennacini, University of Florence (The non verbal rhetoric of urban religious rituals (Uganda/SA). Home institution funding.
1999
Prof Eugene Garver, St. John’s University (Rhetoric And Ethics). NRF.
Prof Mary Jane Collier, University of Denver (Intercultural communication). VSF and home institution funding.
2000 to 2002
Prof Erik Doxtader, now at University of South Carolina and director of the Rhetoric Theory consortium, then a MacArthur Foundation Peace and Security Fellow (funded).Senior Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
2001
Prof Cezar Ornatowski, University of California, San Diego (Presidential Rhetoric and rhetoric of technology). VSF funded.
Prof Alan Gross, University of Minnesota (Rhetoric of Science, public memory). NRF funded.
2002
Dr Sanya Osha, Ibadan (Political rhetoric in Africa). NRF Overseas Fellow.
Prof Maurice Charland, Director of the Doctoral Programme in Rhetoric, University of Concordia, Montreal (rhetorical theory, communication and the law). VSF.
2003
Prof Maurice Charland. During his stay he was awarded the Canada Communication Prize for his Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture (2003). Home institution funding.
Prof John Trimbur, (writing theory), Worester Polytechnic Institute, USA, author of Reading Culture (4 editions), and Popular Literacy, studies in cultural practices and poetics (2001). Home institution funding.
2004
No visitors due to the international conference held at the Centre About an African Athens. Rhetoric and Democracy. Among the attendees were leading authors in rhetoric Andrea Lunsford (Stanford), Gerard Hauser (Colorado), Robert Hariman (now at Northwestern), the late Michael Leff (then at Memphis), Kathlyn Campbell, David Zarefsky (now President of the Rhetoric Society of Amerrica), also David Appleby, a 2004 Peabody Awardee (the equivalent for television of the Pulitzer Prize for print journalism).
Professor Jerzy Axer, Chair of Rhetoric and Director of the Liberal Arts Institute, University of Warsaw, Poland. NRF funded.
2006
Professor Brigitte Mral, Chair of Rhetoric at the University of Ôrebro, Sweden. NRF funded.
2007
Professor Berit von der Lippe, Rhetoric Programme, BI School of Management, Oslo, Norway. NRF funded.
(list established in March 2011)
Prominent scholars celebrate Stuart Saunders. UNDER THE BAOBAB was launched on Sunday 28 August, in Cape Town, to honour South Africa’s most remarkable university vice-chancellor of the past half century. Scholarly essays by Arthur Chaskalson, past Chief Justice of South Africa; David Potter, the founder of Psion who revolutionized digital mobility; William Bowen, the American educator and past president of Princeton University; and many others. This first volume of the Series is a limited, de luxe edition.
The Elephant and the Obelisk
All correspondence to: africarhetoric@rhetoricafrica.org
About the Special Series of the African Yearbook of Rhetoric
In the fantastical imagination Europe held of Africa the Elephant and the Obelisk have an enduring presence. During the Renaissance their images lent an African presence to the culture of emblems, not much different in purpose and means from the modern obsession with branding logos supposed to encapsulate a corporation’s ethics beyond selling goods. In rhetoric (of which emblems were the visual analogue) the Elephant spoke to the virtue of memory and the prudential value attached to formulating forward-looking arguments heeding past lessons. The Obelisk, not unlike Neptune's trident, emblematised the penetration of wit – a point driven home by its engraved hieroglyphics. Memory and intelligence, prudence and projection, sure footedness and quick sharpness – the Elephant carrying the Obelisk on its back told a telling tale about the distanced virtue European high culture, at the very time of Portuguese descobrimentos, attributed to a continent, Africa which had always been part of it, in reality or in imagination. Africa has always afforded Western minds an occasion to reflect.
The copyright © of The Elephant and the Obelisk special issues of the African Yearbook of Rhetoric is held by Africa Rhetoric Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of the copyright holder.
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