Balafon ou la (re) négociation du pacte racial

Abstract

This article focuses on the collection of poems by Cameroonian Engelbert Mveng. A collection which is quite representative of Cameroonian poetry, which earned it to be maintained in teaching of French programme at the second cycle of secondary education. Related studies reach a consensus on the significance of this collection: it invites to union, friendship among races. This contribution proposes, through of ethnostylistics, a new interpretation by taking into account the source places and target places of the poems that make up this poetry. It therefore gets to the evidence that Engelbert Mveng is trying to negotiate or, at best, to renegotiate the “historic” pact which unites the races to usher in a new order in which the black will be, the guide to the new racial cooperation.