Persuasion in Julius Chongo's Poceza M'Madzulo and Fumbi Khoboo

The paper aims at exploring Julius Chongo’s use of pursuation in his written works. By focusing on four stories; two from Poceza M’madzulo which are ‘Fisi Wankhuli’ (The Greedy Hyena) and ‘Mkomwini Woba M’mphika’ (The Son in Law Who Stole from the Cooking Pot) and another two from Fumbi Khoboo! which are ‘Okoma akali Moyo’ (Those who Love when One Is still Alive) and ‘M’busa Oipa’ (The Evil Pastor), this paper uses the concept of rhetoric to examine the stories above and observes that Chongo uses persuasion to keep his audience engaged. He also employs the element of vividness more in stories that were transcribed from performed radio stories than those that were published. It is concluded that Chongo departed from the text to add more persuasive devices while performing the stories on radio.