Political Discourse in Emergent, Fragile, and Failed Democracies

Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in linguistics from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Languages and Communication Studies, Technical University, Kenya He has published widely on various topics in linguistics in internationally acclaimed journals.

Omondi Oketch is a Senior Lecturer and Chairperson of the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the Technical University of Kenya. He began his career as a lecturer in 1998 at Maseno University before proceeding to University of the Western Cape, South African where he graduated with a doctorate degree in Linguistics in 2006. Dr. Omondi Oketch taught Linguistics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students at Maseno University before joining the Technical University of Kenya in 2012. Besides lecturing, he has supervised and examined both Masters and Doctorate students, locally and internationally. He has research interests in Multimodality, Social semiotics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Multilingualism, where he has published over sixteen journal papers, book chapters and seminar proceedings.

Asiru Hameed Tunde is a lecturer and a Ph.D research Fellow in English and French Department, Umaru Musa Yaradua University, Katsina, Nigeria and English and Linguistics Department of Kenyatta University, Nairobi respectively. His research interests include: Critical Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Media Discourse and Pragmatics.