A Sovereign Warning to the Northern Zone: Identity Is Sacred, Not a Playground for Ambition

Any idea that one group can overshadow another within the Northern Zone is dead on arrival. Oku, Mbiame, Nkambe, Kumbo, Ndu — each community holds an equal and sacred place in the Ambazonian map. There will be no new cultural colonizers. There will be no internal empires.

By Vivian Abiedu The Independentist contributor

Ambazonia’s Struggle Cannot Tolerate Internal Power Games. Ambazonia is fighting for its life, its land, and its people. At a moment when unity is non-negotiable, any attempt by any community to rewrite ancestral hierarchies or elevate itself above others becomes more than a cultural misstep — it becomes a political danger. Our sovereignty is too costly to be diluted by internal cultural adventurism.

Cultural Overreach Is Becoming a Political Provocation

Across the Northern Zone, there is a rising concern.
Some voices from within Nso circles are attempting to cast themselves as cultural referees over Oku, Mbiame, and neighboring communities.
This behavior is not only disrespectful — it echoes the same domination patterns Ambazonians have resisted for decades. Nobody — absolutely nobody — has a mandate to reclassify communities or impose interpretations that contradict ancestral truth. Ambazonia was not built on tribal hierarchies.
Ambazonia is built on sovereign equality.

Sovereignty Begins With Respect for Ancestral Foundations

The Northern Zone has sacred custodians, ancient institutions, and a cultural order shaped long before colonial distortions arrived. It is not for any community to imitate foreign titles, adopt borrowed ideologies, or introduce structures that confuse our identity in the heat of our liberation war. Cultural colonization disguised as “tradition” is still colonization. And Ambazonia will reject it with the same force it rejects Yaoundé’s overreach.

Imported Titles and Borrowed Narratives Undermine Our Cause

Let it be said plainly: Any community that abandons its ancestral root to pursue foreign titles risks political isolation. When people start romanticizing systems their own ancestors resisted, they are not practicing culture — they are practicing confusion. Ambazonia cannot afford confusion. Our sovereignty depends on clarity. Our liberation depends on authenticity.

Leadership Is Proven in Crisis, Not in Ceremonial Costumes. Too many impostors hide behind tradition while failing the most basic test of leadership: standing with their people in moments of danger. A leader who disappears in war has disqualified himself from redefining anyone’s culture. Sovereignty is not conferred by coronations. Sovereignty is earned through sacrifice, presence, courage, and unshakeable loyalty to the people.

The Northern Zone Will Not Be Recolonized — Not Culturally, Not Politically

Any idea that one group can overshadow another within the Northern Zone is dead on arrival. Oku, Mbiame, Nkambe, Kumbo, Ndu — each community holds an equal and sacred place in the Ambazonian map. There will be no new cultural colonizers. There will be no internal empires. And there will be no rewriting of identity to please political ambition. Ambazonia is bigger than any village. Ambazonia is older than any imported hierarchy. Ambazonia is sovereign — and sovereignty has rules.

A Final Call: Correct the Drift Before It Becomes Division

This is not hostility. This is a sovereign warning. Check the drift. Correct the tone. Remember that our ancestors did not shed blood so that new cultural overlords could emerge from within. Ambazonia’s victory requires maturity, not tribal grandstanding. It requires humility, not cultural inflation. It requires unity that respects every community’s ancestral foundation.

This struggle will not be derailed by internal arrogance. Not today. Not ever. Ambazonia’s destiny demands discipline — from all of us.

Vivian Abiedu