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Akioye, Akin A. 1994. The rhetorical construction of radical Africanism at the United Nations: metaphoric cluster as strategy. Discourse & Society 5 (1) : 7–31.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
dominance | metaphor | nation | radical interpretation | rhetoric | social status
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the construction of a radical Africanist disposition via metaphoric clusters in Nigerian UN adressess. The discourse blames colonial adversaries for Africa's grim socio-economic and political conditions, yet masks the reality of African leadership's guilt.