The Inaugural Addresses and Ascension Speeches of Nigerian Elected and Non-Elected Presidents and Prime Minister 1960-2010

Solomon Williams Obotetukudo holds a PhD in communication from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. He was previously a multimedia communications consultant and speechwriter in Nigeria and the United States before returning to the academy. He is currently an assistant professor of mass media arts, journalism, and communication studies at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught public speaking, language and symbols in human communication, nonverbal communication, freedom of speech in American culture, and business and professional communication, among many other courses. His research and scholarly interests include political communication, presidential leadership rhetoric, philosophy of language, public address, rhetorical studies, international development communication, and democratic communications. His forthcoming book is Presidential Thematics and Communicative Practices in a Plural Nigerian Democracy, to be published by The Edwin Mellen Press of New York, in 2010.