Persuasive Speech Outline

Persuasive Speech Outline

Persuasive Speech Outline
The Importance of women literacy

To persuade my audience on the importance of women literacy in African society.

I.   Introduction

It’s 11 p.m. my younger sister Edith, three years old has a high fever, our parents are absent as they usually do for business reason and the only adult in charge of us is our cousin Cilivie. She gave a spoon of “Quinimax” (a treatment of uncomplicated malaria disease) to my sister, thinking that it was fever reducer syrup for child. Cilivie did not know what was inside the bottle because she could not read the instruction guide. The kind of mistakes that she did is happening in daily basis in sub-Saharan African countries and the reason why is because a great amount of African Women are illiterate. Illiteracy is one of the biggest issues that women facing in African Culture. It would be great if every woman in Africa could have access to education without running the risk of being indoctrinated and acculturated into male-bias system. Unfortunately, that’s not the case yet.  I would like to explain to you why the literacy issue is mostly common into African culture, what it is done to eradicate this issue, and what you can do to contribute at this fight against women illiteracy.

I-Africa, as a continent has a literacy rate of less than 60 percent. In Sub-Saharan Africa since 1980, Women account for 64% of the adults who cannot read and write. (From SIL web site)

  A- The problem of illiteracy among women is particularly grave in the sub- Saharan African women.

1-According to the latest UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) estimates for 2008, only 53.3 % of female are literate in sub- Saharan African. The issue of illiterate women is mainly economic and cultural gender issue.

2- One of the major causes of illiteracy is poverty and the subsequent lack of access to reading and writing materials. Realistically, women from poor families are not put in...