Non‐Verbal Forms of Communication in Africa and their Use in Training

Abstract

In this paper, the authors have described how Africans use the human body as a medium of communication. They do this in two ways. The first is through deliberate or subconscious use of various parts of the human body to convey different types of message. The second is by making deliberate tribal marks on the human body as a means of sending and receiving messages. An attempt has been made in this paper to suggest ways of using all these forms of non‐verbal communication in the instructional setting.