An African Athens
Subtitle: Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa (Volume in the Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780805833416
Subjects: African studies; Political structures: democracy; Rhetoric; Politics / Current Events; Language; Africa - South - South Africa; Language Arts & Disciplines; Politics - Current Events; Republic of South Africa; Southern Africa; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; South Africa; 1994-; Politics and government; Ethnic Studies - General; 1989-1994; Political oratory
First sentence: In the early 1990s, when South Africa emerged from a culture of secrecy into democratic openness, "transparency" and "accountability" became the new tropes by which state and public officeholders began measuring their own newly acquired rhetoric.