ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that unbridled vaulting ambition, as expressed in the words/utterances people make, leads to some tragic fall of the incumbents and creates anarchy for their prospective beneficiaries and nations in general. It examines who exactly is the beneficiary of the female agency in constructing and deconstructing the hero concept in party politics, the church and national leadership. The word, spoken or written, has the power to build, inspire, persuade, exhort, nurture, heal and woo, on the one hand, or injure/scar/wound, hurt, repel, discourage, kill, subvert and destroy on the other hand. The seriousness of the spoken word/oral communication is even more complex in the current technologised world whereby digital retrieval of utterances makes it hard to dispute oral utterances. Some repeated words and collocates will be analysed. For example, the words power, authority and ambition are always found in each other’s vicinity. Similarly, corruption, manipulation, exploitation, domination and abuse share an affinity.
