Nancy Henaku

Nancy Henaku is a lecturer at the Department of English where she teaches courses in discourse analysis, writing and literature. She uses rhetorical, sociocultural linguistic and critical theories to examine the political imports of symbolic acts. A central aspect of her research explores the transnational resonance of Global Southern discourses (particularly those from Africa), highlighting how such contexts shape and are shaped by discourses from elsewhere. In her work, Africa emerges as a critical epistemic space for messier theorisations of the workings of discourse in late modernity. Her research appears in the Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power, African Journal of Rhetoric, Critical Discourse Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Companion to African Rhetoric, the International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS) and Disruptive Stories among others.