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Ubuntu, Connecting with God, and the Crisis of Modern Civilization

Genuine fulfillment emerges through meaningful relationships, service to others, and a sense of belonging to something greater than oneself. A society that loses sight of these truths may continue to accumulate wealth and technological sophistication, yet still experience growing loneliness, anxiety, alienation, and moral uncertainty. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News The African

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The Death of James Bond and the Dying Role of British Diplomacy: What Ambazonia Must Learn from Britain’s Vanishing Myth of Global Power

Britain’s myth of command has outlived Britain’s command. Ambazonia must therefore stop waiting for British diplomacy to rediscover a courage it no longer possesses. The old British myth is dying. Ambazonia must not die with it. By Ali Dan Ismael. Editor-in-chief The Independentist News James Bond is not merely a film character. He is Britain’s

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Ambazonia’s strategic Interest Transcends Bloodlines Across the Mungo: The Lesson of the House of Windsor, the German Connection, the American Presidency, Media Substitution, and the Politics of Naming

Ambazonia’s human ties across the Mungo must not prevent Ambazonians from defending their dignity, their institutions, their identity, and their future. Bloodlines matter in families. Roots belong to biography. Justice matters in nations. Strategic interest belongs to statecraft. And when a people’s survival is at stake, strategic interest must come first. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief,

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The Smile and the Weapon; What Ambazonia Must Learn About Statecraft

The smile is not policy. The handshake is not justice. Peace without justice is not peace. And if Ambazonia does not define its own mission, someone else will use Ambazonia to complete theirs. That is what Ambazonia must learn about statecraft. By an Ambazonian Patriot Nations do not survive by sentiment. They survive by understanding

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The Entente Cordiale: Peace Among Empires, Not Justice for the Colonized

Africa does not need another arrangement designed by outsiders. Africa needs sovereignty with competence, partnership without submission, peace with justice, and stability rooted in the dignity of its own people. Peace among empires is not enough. Real peace must include justice for the colonized. By Ali Dan Ismael. Editor-in-chief The Independentist News This is how

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The James Bond Myth, True Lies, and the Collapse of Imperial Diplomatic Illusions

No people should entrust its future to the cleverness of old empires or the forceful style of foreign powers. Britain’s ambiguity cannot be the foundation of Ambazonian freedom. American directness cannot substitute for Ambazonian institution-building. The future Republic must develop its own diplomatic culture: truthful, lawful, strategic, restrained, courageous, and morally clear. By The Independentist

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The British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) Still Paying the Price of Imperial Greed Sixty Years after, as diplomat says “Britain has no strategic interest in Southern Cameroons.”

The task facing Ambazonians today is to ensure that the pursuit of peace, self-determination, regional stability, and accountable government becomes impossible for Britain—and the wider international community—to dismiss as strategically irrelevant. Britain’s interests may not be eternal in Southern Cameroons. Its historical responsibility is. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News Some diplomatic conversations remain

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The Blind Executioners — Why Calling Armed Forces into a Local Dispute Can Become a Death Sentence

Resolve differences through dialogue, law, mediation, and community institutions. Protect the innocent. Preserve trust. Refuse to hand ordinary disputes over to forces whose intervention may produce consequences far beyond anything the caller intended. Once armed violence enters a community, no one controls where it ends. By Carl SandersGuest Writer The Independentist News, Soho, London BAMENDA

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The Ambazonian Path Forward: Discipline Amid Yaoundé’s Vulnerability

Freedom must be prepared before it is proclaimed. That preparation begins now: through unity, discipline, documentation, diplomacy, civic organization, policy clarity, and a firm commitment to building a Republic worthy of trust. Yaoundé’s weakness may create the opening. Ambazonian discipline must create the future. By Carl Sanders, Guest WriterIndependentist News | Soho, London Buea –

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Burkina Faso, France, and the New African Doctrine of Sovereignty

The future of Africa will not be built by nostalgia for empire, dependence on foreign protectors, or blind trust in inherited postcolonial states. It will be built by peoples who insist that sovereignty must serve dignity, justice, prosperity, and accountable government. The Independentist News Editorial desk Burkina Faso’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with France

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The Cold War of Succession in Yaoundé: A System Fracturing from Within

A state that hides too much eventually loses control of the truth. And when a government loses control of the truth, it begins to lose control of authority itself. By Carl Sanders, Guest WriterIndependentist News | Soho, London Yaoundé (Etoudi palace) – July 11, 2026 -The silence surrounding the fake presidential decree has done more

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