Independentist News

Retrospective,

Les détails de la Conférence de Foumban de juillet 1961

Par Celeste Maddox The Independentist (Partie 1) Hier, l’un de nous a réagi à une publication qui demandait : « Que s’est-il passé

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Commentary

This Is Why We Fight: The Betrayal of the Too-Trusting People of the Southern Cameroons

These assurances were given in speeches before the UN Decolonization Committee, the General Assembly, in public addresses, and even to the BBC. They

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Retrospective,

Details of the Foumban Meeting of July 1961 (Part 3)

At the 849th meeting of the Fourth Committee on 25 February 1959, Mr. Ahidjo declared: “We are not annexationists. If our brothers of

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Commentary

Le Libéralisme Communautaire et l’Ombre de Mein Kampf

Le Libéralisme Communautaire de Biya s’inscrivait parfaitement dans ce dispositif. Il subordonnait la liberté à l’unité, assimilait le fédéralisme au tribalisme, et sacralisait

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Commentary

Les Vautours qui ont Aidé Sako à Exceller dans la Diplomatie

De l’enlèvement de Sisiku, à l’effondrement de Chris Anu, à l’isolement de Marianta, à la disparition de Kometa, jusqu’à l’incarcération d’Ayaba — chaque

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Commentary

Communal Liberalism and the Shadow of Mein Kampf

Biya’s Communal Liberalism fit perfectly into this framework. It subordinated freedom to unity, branded federalism as tribalism, and exalted the leader as the

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News analysis

The Vultures That Helped Sako Excel in Diplomacy

From Sisiku’s rendition, to Chris Anu’s collapse, to Marianta’s isolation, to Kometa’s disappearance, to Ayaba’s incarceration — every attempted decapitation has had an

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Retrospective,

Details of the Foumban Meeting of July 1961 (Part 2)

The passing of Law No. 24/61 and Ahidjo’s repeated statements leave no doubt: no federation was ever formed between LRC and the British

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Retrospective,

Details of the Foumban Meeting of July 1961 (Part 1)

After the plebiscite of February 1961 and the UN vote for Southern Cameroons independence, the United Nations recommended a tripartite conference to determine

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News

The Fault, Dear Prime Minister, is not in the Vision, but in Biya’s Lack of Energy and Vitality to take Cameroon to the Next Level

President Paul Biya’s inability to connect with citizens has sparked concerns, even among his own party members, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM).

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