Specifically, the focus is on the rhetorical and persuasive strategies she applied in her speech. Therefore, this paper intended to analyze Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's presidential inaugural speech as the first female president in Africa to see how she persuaded convinced the people of Liberia on political, social, and economic policies to make them believe in her content to consolidate power. Meanwhile, although the use of the military and unconstitutional acts are at the forefront, the languages used by African presidents in their speeches, and how they use their speeches should not be undermined as one of the factors that enable them to persuade their citizens to control them. They rule their countries on orders and decrees instead of laws in a bid to satisfy their wills (Botha, 2012). We have experienced constitutional amendments by governments in some countries of Africa purposely to help presidents to rule for life. Africa is one of the poorly governed continents due to poor leadership and dictatorial governance as a result of the desire to overstay power (Botha, 2012).
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