Speaking for the Chief Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory

Name: Speaking for the Chief Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory
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ISBN: 9780253209467

ISBN-10: 0253209463

ISBN-13: 9780253209467

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Authors: Kwesi Yankah

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. . . an unprecedented opportunity to understand West African oratory from the point of view of a native Akan speaker who is also a gifted linguist and ethnographer. . . . [Yankah] shows with elegance the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems. Alessandro Duranti Among the Akan of Ghana and in other areas of West Africa, royal speech is not articulated with a single voice but is rather a composite of the chief's words and their artistic relay by his orator and principal diplomat, the okyeame. In the royal entourage the okyeame is the most conspicuous personage, functioning as the chief's mouth and ear: the individual through whom…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

KWESI YANKAH is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ghana. He is the author of The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric: A Theory of Proverb Praxis.



Acknowledgments Prologue



Introduction



Okyeame: A Theoretical Framework



Mediation: The Evolution of Royal Diplomacy



Oratory in Akan Society



Women and Rhetoric



Orator and Chief: The Politics of Immunity



OListening So The Chief May HearO: The Circuit of Formal Talk



Interpreting the ChiefOs Word



Without His PatronOs Voice Epilogue: The KingOs Exit Glossary of Akan Words


Bibliography


Index