Ambazonia — The New Superpower Inside a Collapsing Republic

While Yaoundé factions plot and fracture, Ambazonia has become the new superpower inside La République du Cameroun — not in weaponry, but in willpower.

By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief
The Independentist —

The Illusion of Chiroma’s “90,000 Soldiers”

Yaounde October 29, 2025 -Issa Chiroma’s brief dance with victory has ended as quickly as it began. Barely days after the so-called “Unity Coalition” paraded him as a symbol of renewal, the illusion shattered. New audios now circulate across French Cameroon claiming Chiroma commands more than 90,000 followers, ready to “fight Biya’s stolen mandate”—and that Ambazonians are joining him.

But scratch the surface and it collapses. This is not a movement; it is a mirage — the kind that haunts every dying empire. The same man who once swore that “we will kill to keep Ambazonia under our rule” now leans on the very people he wanted annihilated. What an irony of history.

The French DNA of Illusion

Like the France of old crying “Where is the Grande Armée?” when the empire began to crumble, Issa Chiroma has inherited the same illusionary DNA.
In his imagination, political will can replace moral legitimacy, and propaganda can substitute strength.

In a secured communication channel known as Le Réveil du Mbam, Chiroma reportedly reassured his followers that “the fight was not over.” He claimed control over 90,000 rebels, including Ambazonians — a statistic he was unable to prove, yet one that reflects the scale of delusion gripping Yaoundé’s collapsing power blocs. But history is unforgiving.

Just as France in the world wars depended on stronger foreign armies — Britain and the United States — to confront Germany, so too does Chiroma now dream that Ambazonia, the very nation he fought to destroy, can now become his saviour against Biya’s crumbling monarchy. This is not strategy; it is poetic justice. The hunter is now begging the forest he once tried to burn to provide him shelter.

Ambazonia — The Real Power Equation

While Yaoundé factions plot and fracture, Ambazonia has become the new superpower inside La République du Cameroun — not in weaponry, but in willpower.

Psychological Superpower: Ambazonia has dismantled fear itself. Every faction in LRC now borrows Ambazonian language—speaking of “resistance,” “sovereignty,” and “self-determination.” Words that once condemned them now define their hope.

Moral Superpower: Ambazonians fight for justice within international law; LRC factions fight for revenge within chaos.

Strategic Superpower: For eight years, Ambazonia has neutralised state control across vast territories, forcing Yaoundé to negotiate with ghosts it once refused to recognise.

Every anti-Biya rebel today uses Ambazonia as the gold standard of liberation struggle. The same people who once called us “terrorists,” “usurpers,” and worse have suddenly forgotten their words and borrowed our language. We will never forget. Ambazonia understands history’s lesson: when a people forget history, they are bound to repeat it — and we shall not repeat the chains that once bound us.

The Hollow Hope of French Cameroon’s “Unity Factions” The claim that Ambazonians are fighting alongside Chiroma is as hollow as his promises. Ambazonia is not part of any French-Cameroonian civil feud.

President Dr Samuel Ekomey Sako has made it plain:

“We came to Foumban as a sovereign people; we shall meet them again as a sovereign people.” Ambazonia will not trade its birthright for another man’s rebellion. Chiroma’s desperation is the last breath of a system that mocked truth until truth became its nightmare.

Conclusion — A Republic Imploding from Within

Today, the real superpower in Yaoundé is not political; it is psychological. Ambazonia holds that power. Chiroma’s 90,000 claimed rebels cannot match the silent force of a people who have defied occupation for nearly a decade. France once asked, “Where is the Grande Armée?” La République du Cameroun may soon ask, “Where is the Republic itself?”

And whether Issa Chiroma succeeds — and it appears he just might — it will not happen on Ambazonia’s back. Ambazonia’s borders of conscience and sovereignty remain intact, guarded by the truth that no longer fears any army. The answer, as history records it, will echo from Buea: Ambazonia — one flag, one nation, one destiny.