Ekwumekwu na Ndụ Ndị Igbo: Amụmamụ Agwa Maazị Obijiọfọ n’Ụkpana Okpoko Buuru T. U. Ubesie

Abstract

The study delved into the oratory and rhetorics of Mr. Ọbijiọfọ in Ụkpana Okpoko Buuru as an ancient, and integral part of Igbo People’s way of life. The objective of the study is to expose the corrupt practices in the present society, where falsehood has eaten deep into the fibre in the life of people, as way of promoting oratory and rhetorics as well as adding to the knowledge bank of this nature. The study is carried out in literature and in Ụkpana Okpoko Buuru as Igbo literary work. Other places where the data for the study were gathered from includes, library, internet, where views of other scholars about the key words in the topic were collected and reviewed. Marxism which anchored in the class division between peoples in their relationship is adopted for analysis of the study. The findings of the study revealed that oratory and rhetorics are very important because they are keys to unlock peoples’ minds. It is also a two edged sword whose owner should handle with care as s/he is at the mercy of the people at the opposition camp, who want to find fault with s/he on the process of expressing the act of oratory and rhetorics. The orator makes enemy for himself or herself on the process of playing his or her role in the process of addressing the people. The study would be beneficial to the general public, mostly to the teachers, students, and would be researchers in oratory, character, and literature.