Health And Education In Africa Rhetorical Analysis

The Sub-Saharan area of Africa is one of the most beautiful areas of the continent, but also one of the most death-dealing. The region is full of disease, terrorism, and accidents, with little places for healthcare to treat those who are ill or injured. The International Finance Corporation, or IFC for short, is the largest multilateral shareowner for private health and education in the world. Their article, Health and Education in Africa argues that to fix the health crisis in the area, spending on health will need to increase. While another author, Annie Kelly of the guardian, argues that working community structures will lead to the most sturdy improvements in healthcare. Both of these articles use their rhetorical appeals well however,
Health and Education in Africa is the more persuasive article because of its stronger ethos and logos as well as a somewhat acceptable pathos. Healthcare a Major Challenge in Africa also holds a strong argument with a well developed pathos, but simply does not compare to the persuasive rhetorical appeals as the former.
Both of the articles mentioned above use a charitable organization in order to convey their ethos. Ethos is the method of using a popular celebrity, item, or organization that many people know about. Both of the organizations used are fairly well known but are not a common household name like many other charities therefore, both of the articles ethos are not exceptionally strong. The first article, Health and Education in Africa, uses its own website as the ethos appeal. The author introduces IFC in the very first sentence and proceeds on to state some of the achievements the organization has
Both articles use logos as their main source of persuasion as there is a lot of statistics that can be used for both arguments. Logos is about using statistics in order to have factual evidence to back up a thesis statement. IFC uses multiple low statistics throughout their article. This method of using sad but true facts is meant to bring about an empathetic feeling in the reader in order to persuade them towards the IFC’s cause. “Health and Education in Africa” states, “People in Sub-Saharan Africa have the worst health, on average, in the world. The region has 11 percent of the world’s population but carries 24 percent of the global disease burden. With less than 1 percent of global health expenditure and only 3 percent of the world’s health workers” (para 3). This quote uses factual information in order to back up the main argument that an increase in spending will help the citizens of africa. As seen by the quote talking about the Sub-Saharan region’s low spending on healthcare after giving evidence of their poor health despite the high population. Whereas IFC uses low statistics to create a call to action, Annie Kelly of the guardian uses also uses low statistics and swaps it later in the article for high numbers in order to show the impact that good community structures have left on the healthcare system in Uganda. Kelly (2009) proclaims, “ Despite record investment over the past five years, Uganda's