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Ethnic Appeal: A Self-Defense Tool For Kenyan Politicians, Dane M. Kiambi
Ethnic Appeal: A Self-Defense Tool For Kenyan Politicians, Dane M. Kiambi
College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications
So far, analyses of apologetic rhetoric strategies as used by individuals or organizations to respond to accusations of wrongdoing have been concentrated in the West. An analysis of political apologia in an African setting — in this case Kenya — reveals that while Kenyan politicians have used denial, victimization, mortification, and counterattacking among other self-defense strategies, one particular strategy emerges as the most commonly used by Kenyan politicians — ethnic appeal.