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African Notebooks of Rhetoric  is a journal that publishes research addressing the studies of discourse analysis, linguistics, stylistics, of literature and communication and now decides to publish the thematic studies from 2026 and applies the current ethical code of research of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education in Francophone countries. It hosts studies by researchers from around the world interested in analyzing the linguistic, rhetorical, and communicational aspects of Africa.  Its fields covered are works in language sciences, particularly open disciplines such as linguistics, stylistics, discourse analysis, literature, and communication.

Its mission is to publish high-quality work in the aforementioned fields. To this end, it welcomes original articles and aims to be an international journal dedicated to understanding oral and textual corpora in the fields of discourse analysis, linguistics and literature in Africa. However, it also welcomes work from other parts of the world that falls within the scope of its editorial policy. It pursues the following objectives:

-  a) help researchers from the CAMES space to access quality scientific publications, 
-  b) ensure the scientific evaluation of work by rejecting the least relevant
-  c) accept papers making a significant and relevant contribution in its covered disciplines.


Libre Accès et Copyright: © African Books of Rhetoric  is a journal under the auspices of the Université Marien Ngouabi, which is part of the policy of open access to scientific and technical information.  Indeed, the marketing of items is strictly prohibited. Its editorial policy and articles are accessible online, to be cited according to the Code of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) on Intellectual Property. The journal, in scientific cooperation with researchers from CAMES universities, works according to the provisions of the ethical, editorial and confidentiality charter of this organization and its highest standards.  Furthermore, the opinions expressed in articles respect the framework of scientific debate and are solely the responsibility of their author. According to the CAMES deontological and ethical rules in force in the field of research, any scientific fraud (such as plagiarism, self-plagiarization, submission of artificially generated texts or withdrawal of an article proposal without prior notification to the Editorial Office) will be reported to the academic and professional institutions associated with the author of the proposal. Any non-compliant procedure leads to the automatic rejection of the text as well as the termination of the collaboration.

Current Conference Proceedings Volume

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): The rhetorical techniques of diplomatic language
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This issue is devoted to the diplomatic language in the world.

Published: 2026-08-25

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Articles

  • Sommaire

    1-17
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/f0rh8096
  • Multidimensional Analysis of the Closing Speech of Candidate Denis Sassou Nguesso: Between Stateism, Stability and Modernity

    Odzotto Gandron (Auteur·e)
    18-26
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/ye92hb75CAR2026
  • Linguistic Aspects of Diplomatic Language in Vladimir Putin’s Speeches: An Analysis of Discursive and Rhetorical Strategies

    Elongo Arsène (Auteur·e)
    27-53
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/14zek912CAR20261
  • An enunciative and rhetorical study of the "diplomatic 'we'" based on the case of Denis Sassou N'Guesso: Major speeches from the first seven-year term (2002–2009) Claudia Lemboumba Sassou N'Guesso

    Ngamountsika Edouard (Auteur·e)
    54-66
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/dbv29v70CAR2026
  • Breaking protocol: anticolonial rhetoric and diplomatic speech at Lumumba and Sankara

    Nombo Augustin (Auteur·e)
    67-84
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/0tak7r34CAR2026
  • Diplomatic language as colonial memory: protocol, Gaullist rhetoric, and counter-discourse in Guy Menga's Case de Gaulle

    Moukoukou Sidoine Romaric (Auteur·e)
    85-100
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/rr1q0s40CAR23
  • Diplomacy through Speech: Mbochi Tradition and the Sassou N'Guesso Doctrine in the Congo (1979–2026)

    Gomas Aimée Noelle (Auteur·e)
    102-117
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/gnmw8f09CAR1
  • Hyperbole in Donald Trump’s diplomatic language

    Ange Loumbouzi Didier Arcade (Auteur·e)
    118-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/eq316q93
  • Trump, or the breaking of diplomatic codes in political language

    Miatékéla Othon Chrysostome, Mambouana Petou Raphice Graçadieu (Auteur·e)
    141-162
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/0tfqsh83
  • Aspects of Diplomatic Stylistic Devices in the Speeches of Jean-Claude Gakosso

    Dzaboua Monkala (Auteur·e)
    163-175
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/esrn9836car25
  • The Personalization of Diplomatic Discourse: The Significance of Emmanuel Macron’s Address

    Ntsoua Ndombo Pierre Destain, Séverin Ngakosso (Auteur·e)
    176-187
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/wcg0e443CAR12
  • Subjectivizing adjectives as a mode of diplomatic language in Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema’s address to the 80th session of theUnited Nations General Assembly

    Nguiené Bilongo Brèche Pachel (Auteur·e)
    188-201
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/bddj2c10CAR234
  • Traces of the Diplomatic World in Le Mort-Vivant by Henri Djombo

    Mvoula-Massamba Ghislain Méliodore (Auteur·e)
    202-220
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/txc69r24
  • The Diplomacy of Marien Ngouabi: The Rhetoric of a Unity Revolutionary Foreign Policy (1969–1977)

    Arsène Elongo, Edward Soh Opanga, (Auteur·e)
    221-232
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/knqp4135car32
  • Diplomatic Language as a Space of Power and Resistance in Henri Lopes’s Le Lys et le flamboyant

    Gracia France Pierre Alembe (Auteur·e)
    233-259
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/ht7tpy98car2
  • Parliamentary Diplomacy and Artificial Intelligence in the Republic of the Congo: Institutional Communication, Ethical Issues, and Digital Sovereignty (2012–2026)

    Vanessa Obambi Mountou, Bienvenu Boudimbou (Auteur·e)
    260-282
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/c1mv3547car1
  • Media framings of Congolese diplomacy in Les Dépêches de Brazzaville and La Semaine Africaine

    Benjamin Ngoma (Auteur·e)
    283-304
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/rg0x4y20
  • Diplomatic Language in Sony Labou Tansi’s La Vie et demie: Critique, Resistance, and Postcolonialism

    Mathusalem Nganga-Mienanzambi (Auteur·e)
    305-316
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/tk9y3294
  • The Syntactic analysis of Koyo compound toponyms

    Yvon-Pierre Ndongo-Ibara, Divin Sauve Mianza Lekaka (Auteur·e)
    318-333
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/hjdj1r16
  • Adjunction in Mbere Verb Phrase

    Yvon-Pierre Ndongo Ibara, Dasty Chedel Ekori Tsoloboa (Auteur·e)
    334-342
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/na38c183
  • Writing Cultural Memory in the Novel: The Sceptre of Authenticity by Makliwè Adaki

    Takao Mawaya (Auteur·e)
    343-356
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/bjcm2z67

Linguistique

  • Editorial

    Elongo Arsène (Auteur·e)
    6-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.55595/nxcc6z65
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  • Les Cahiers Africains de Rhétorique, créés en 2022, sont une revue de la Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines (FLASH) de l’Université Marien Ngouabi, en République du Congo. C'est  une revue à comité scientifique qui publie deux numéros par an, consacrés soit à un thème spécifique, soit à divers sujets dans les domaines de

 

  • la linguistique,
  •  l’analyse du discours,
  •  la stylistique,
  •  la littérature
  •  la communication.

 Cette revue met en avant les travaux des chercheurs africains dans les disciplines mentionnées, tout en acceptant également les contributions de chercheurs issus d’autres continents. La portée des Cahiers Africains de Rhétorique est interafricaine, internationale et francophone.