Orature is a term that has span the entire continent of Africa, common in both academic and popular writing. With at least five examples to support your answer, define ‘orature’ and how Africans use it as a form of rhetoric. In your answer, be sure to name the person accredited with the first use of this term and which country he comes from.

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Orature was coined by the Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o. The word ‘orature’ according to Ngugi was to denote imaginative works of the oral tradition usually referred to as “oral literature”. Mr Ngugi thought it would be wise to avoid suggesting that oral compositions belong to lesser or derivative category (Oxford, 2020).

 

The spoken word is definitely understood more than the written letters. They are produced to capture and bring alive the human mind, intention, emotion, opinion, view, experience and prediction among other things. Around the globe, orature sets the tune for written literature. However, the global world has diluted the potency of oral narratives in Africa. But there are still relevant pieces of orature with a great use of rhetoric for example Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). Some of the greatest works of the 20th century were written by Achebe. The book is about a clash between traditional tribal values and the effects of colonial rule as well as tension between masculinity and femininity in a highly, patriarchal societies.

 

Another example of orature is the show isn’t over by Vickson Hangula is a Namibian piece or literary drama that was also performed. Here Hangula uses very persuasive techniques to tell the story of how performing arts in Namibia is not at a respectable standard after independence and his actors are also afraid of acting it out because they might be seen as against the opposition party.

 

The more examples are Homers Odyssey, Cinderella and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Though these are not African narratives about African lives. Hangula must’ve have read these 5 pieces that shaped his rhetoric skills as well Abeche. Nasty C is a South African singer song writer and his lyrics is often quoted with slang and lyrical jargon that is of international British, American, vernacular South African and “African English”. In his song with Major Lazor and Jidenna “Particular”, the lyrics of the songs is quite catchy and it became a hit. Artists like Nasty C join A.K.A, Da Les and many more who use literature like things fall apart and Shakespeare Hamlet to create good rhetoric pieces of their own.