Dear Comrade Francis Mbah,
Anger may ignite a movement, but only structure sustains it. History is unequivocal on this point. Let us correct the record clearly and without apology:
Charles de Gaulle did not rule or coordinate the liberation of France from the home front.
He operated from London, led the Free French government-in-exile, negotiated with Churchill and Roosevelt, secured international recognition, and constructed legitimacy before territory.
France was liberated because authority was organized outside occupation, not because Paris was shouting louder under Nazi boots. This is not an exception. It is the rule.
Ahmed Ben Bella did not direct Algeria’s independence from Algiers. The FLN’s political authority and international diplomacy were built from exile—Tunis, Cairo, and beyond.
Amílcar Cabral did not wait to control Bissau before shaping Guinea-Bissau’s liberation. He built ideology, discipline, and foreign alliances first—then territory followed.
Jomo Kenyatta did not dismantle colonial power while hiding in the forests. He internationalized the Kenyan struggle and framed legitimacy long before independence.
Yasser Arafat did not command the Palestinian movement from Jerusalem. The PLO functioned for decades as an external political authority while resistance unfolded on the ground.
The African National Congress itself operated as a government-in-exile for years— long before apartheid collapsed.
Liberation history teaches one brutal truth: Occupied space is tactically important. Unoccupied space is strategically decisive. Those who mock external coordination reveal not courage—but ignorance of how power actually shifts.
Yes, our people are dying. Yes, urgency is real.
But urgency without architecture produces chaos, not victory. Calling diaspora coordination a “handicap” ignores the reality that finance, diplomacy, law, media, and sanctions are not fought from the bush alone.
If the claim is mobilization, then mobilize institutions, not insults. If the claim is leadership, then demonstrate command, not volume.
Where is the unified civilian protection doctrine?
Where is the single diplomatic voice? Where is the operational chain of accountability?
Movements that substitute rage for structure do not defeat occupiers. They exhaust their own people. Ambazonia does not need internal purges. It needs strategic maturity.
De Gaulle did not liberate France by denouncing other Frenchmen. He liberated it by outgrowing personal grievance and organizing power. Forward Ever must mean forward with discipline. 8Backward Never must mean never retreating into emotional theatrics. History will not remember who shouted.
It will remember who built.
The Patriot MM
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