The African origins of rhetoric [electronic resource] / by Cecil Blake.

Prologue
"The blackness without and the blackness within": the rhetorical construction of the African
Rhetorical theory as background and context
Africa in rhetorical scholarship
Maat: the ethical grounding of the rhetoric of Ptah-hotep
The rhetoric of Ptah-hotep
From darkness to light
Paradigmatic framework: postcolonial theory
Epilogue
Appendices.