TOPICS IN POLITICALDISCOURSE ANALYSIS -- NOTICE TO THE READER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MALAWI -- ABSTRACT -- MUSLIM PROTESTS IN MALAWI -- BRIEF HISTORY OF ISLAM IN MALAWI -- ISLAM IN INDEPENDENT MALAWI -- TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF ISLAM -- RELIGION, POLITICS, ELECTIONS, AND BEYOND -- BACK TO THE MUSLIMS' PROTESTS IN MALAWI -- REFERENCES -- THE SEARCH FOR AN ALTERNATIVEHEGEMONY: TRADITION AS THE FOUNDATIONOF MODERN AFRICAN IDENTITY INSONG OF LAWINO AND SONG OF OCOL BYOKOT P'BITEK -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HEGEMONY -- SONG OF LAWINO -- SONG OF OCOL -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PROVERBS IN POLITICAL ORATORY:A CASE STUDY1 -- INTRODUCTION -- THE IMMEDIATE BACKGROUND TO THE LASTPRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF GENERAL MOUSSA TRAORE -- FINAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF GENERAL MOUSSATRAORE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FELICITY CONDITIONS OF NIGERIANPOLITICAL SPEECHES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- AIMS -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE -- DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS -- Examples -- DISCOURSE STRUCTURE -- ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS -- FELICITY CONDITIONS OF THE SPEECHES -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- INDEX.