Speaking for the Chief: Ȯkyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory

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Indiana University Press, 1995 - 194 pages
Provides an ethnography of royal rhetoric and the language and politics of representation among the Akan of Ghana. This book shows the connections between verbal strategies and the cultural organization of West African social systems. It shows the art of the okyeame to be not simply a genre of speaking, but a set of cultural practices.

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