When Sir Dr. Ntumfon Halle unveiled his 12-point peace plan, and when international actors rallied behind the Swiss-led process, the Boston Initiative, and later the so-called Canadian peace talks, many Ambazonians dared to hope. Perhaps the world had finally heard our cry. Perhaps justice would come through diplomacy. Perhaps bloodshed could give way to dialogue.
Time has revealed a painful truth: every one of these processes failed—not because Ambazonians were uncooperative, but because the system in Yaoundé was never built to allow peace. With Paul Biya’s ideological manual Communal Liberalism—Cameroon’s own Mein Kampf—now laid bare, we see clearly: peace was never on the table. It was always a trap.
Nothing exposes that trap more sharply than Dr. Martin Mungwa’s investigative exposé, “The Biya Mein Kampf: A Continuous Narrative of Authoritarian Engineering.” In it, Dr. Mungwa deconstructs Biya’s decades-long strategy to dismantle opposition, centralise power, and erase the Anglophone identity—not by accident, but by design.
False Dialogues and Dead-End Roads
1. Sir Dr. Halle’s 12-Point Peace Plan
Built on trust and good faith—calling for a cease-fire, demilitarisation, truth commissions, decentralisation, and local autonomy—it assumed La République du Cameroun (LRC) wanted reform. It does not. Biya’s regime survives by rejecting power-sharing, regional autonomy, and the very identity of the Ambazonian people.
2. The Swiss-Led Process: A Shell Game
“Confidence-building” and “inclusive dialogue” produced:
Two years of silence
No formal negotiations
A process dominated by Yaoundé’s proxies
Ambazonian leaders sidelined while diplomats shook hands with ghosts
The Swiss track became a stalling tactic—distracting the international community while Cameroon rearmed and doubled its military presence in our homeland.
3. The Canadian “Monologue”
In January 2023, Canada loudly announced its role as mediator; one week later, Cameroon denied ever inviting Ottawa. The so-called mediation devolved into a monologue—Canada speaking into a void while Yaoundé laughed and withdrew.
This is not diplomacy. It is psychological warfare.
Biya’s Real Plan: Communal Liberalism = Mein Kampf
Dr. Mungwa lays bare how Biya’s 1987 text is a doctrinal manual for authoritarian consolidation, camouflaged as national unity. Like Hitler’s Mein Kampf, it:
Rejects diversity, glorifying a singular Francophone identity
Dismantles checks and balances in the name of efficiency
Attacks federalism and local governance as mortal threats
Justifies violence and repression for “unity” and “development”
Since publication, every major political move—abolishing the federation in 1972, neutering multiparty competition, militarising the Anglophone regions, manipulating peace talks—has followed this playbook. Every initiative since 2016 was bound to fail because dialogue, to Yaoundé, equals defeat.
Why Ambazonians Must Never Vote Again.
Participating in LRC’s electoral system is not resistance—it is submission.
Voting is collaboration with the oppressor, not empowerment.
Ballots are tools of erasure, not change.
Even an elected Anglophone would serve under a constitution engineered to render them powerless.
Cameroon’s elections maintain the fiction of unity, democracy, and legitimacy. Reject the illusion. Boycotting every election is political resistance, the loudest statement we can make: “We are not part of this lie.”
The Only Road Ahead: Total Exit.
Cameroon is not broken—it functions exactly as designed: a Bulu-Beti-led colonial project, propped up by France and grounded in Francophone domination. Ambazonia was forced into this design; it must now walk out—completely.
Withdraw from all Cameroonian political and administrative structures
Declare and defend full national sovereignty
Demand enforcement of UN Resolutions 1514 and 1608
Teach every citizen that the Cameroonian ballot box is a coffin, not a voice
Final Words.
Sir Dr. Ntumfon Halle tried. So did the Swiss. So did Canada. Their efforts were genuine—but they negotiated with a regime built on a lie, fortified by violence, and fuelled by an ideology of permanent domination. As Dr. Mungwa’s chilling exposé confirms, Communal Liberalism is not dormant policy; it is active doctrine. Peace remains impossible until Ambazonia walks away—fully and forever.
Ambazonians cannot negotiate their dignity.
Ambazonians cannot vote away their chains.
Ambazonians cannot wait to be recognised.
They must become the recognition.
Ambazonia will not fall to its knees in ballots or dialogue.
Ambazonia will rise—because it remembers, it sees the trap, and it will never walk into it again.
Jennifer McChriston & Young Jean-Pierre are contributing editors with The Independentist, focusing on post-colonial politics, authoritarian regimes, and African self-determination.
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