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Reciprocity Without Reality: A Response to Professor. Dze-Ngwa’s Open Letter. Why his call for “inclusive dialogue” risks managing the conflict rather than resolving it

Professor Willibroad Dze-Ngwa, your letter calls for peace. That objective is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the structure through which that peace is pursued. Because peace is not determined by intention. It is determined by process. By Timothy Enongene Guest Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News Professor Willibroad Dze-Ngwa, your recent open letter—issued in

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Communique

In the aftermath of the Papal visit, Dr. Willibroad Dze-Ngwa calls on the actors of the ongoing war to heed to the Pope’s call for dialogue and peace

An Open Letter to His Excellency President Paul Biya and the Leadership of Anglophone Movements, Following the Apostolic Visit of His Holiness Pope XIV to Cameroon: A Call for Reciprocal Concessions and Inclusive Dialogue Your Excellency,Distinguished Leaders of the Anglophone Movements, I write with deep respect and a shared sense of urgency to all parties

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News analysis

Peace Optics vs. Political Reality: Who Controls the Narrative in Bamenda? When “dialogue” becomes containment—and symbolism begins to replace justice

For Ambazonians—and for the international community observing—the responsibility now is not to react to the imagery, but to interrogate the process. Is this pathway leading toward a just resolution? Or is it engineering the conditions for a prolonged, managed conflict? By Timothy Enongene Guest Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News In moments of conflict, power does not

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Book Review

Revisiting The Bafut Beagles

Revisiting The Bafut Beagles today is not simply an exercise in nostalgia. It is an opportunity to reflect on how worlds meet, interpret, and reshape one another. In one forgotten pair of spectacles, Durrell captured a universal truth: what we see depends not only on our eyes—but on the stories we bring to what is

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Commentary

PEACE WITHOUT DIALOGUE IS SHAMEFUL — BUT WHO PAYS THE PRICE? When moral truth collides with political power, Ambazonia confronts the danger of “managed peace” and the urgency of real negotiation

The question now is whether that truth will remain a statement—or become a process. Because if dialogue is necessary, then its absence is no longer procedural. It is consequential. And in conflicts of this scale, consequences do not disappear. They accumulate—politically, morally, and historically. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News There are moments

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Communique

The Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia (in exile) reacts to the SDF Position on the Ambazonian war of Independence

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Commentary

The American Pope and the Ambazonian Question: When Clarity Becomes Power

An American-formed Pope does not need to instruct. His posture defines expectation: speak plainly, stand where the suffering is visible, avoid proximity to power that compromises moral authority. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News A Pope who speaks like an American is not just a spiritual leader—he is a geopolitical event. For the

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Church and State in Cameroon: The Rome-Yaoundé Divide
Editorial commentary

The Pulpit or the Palace: Rome Has Drawn the Line

The Pulpit or the Palace: Rome Has Drawn the Line This is no longer a moment for careful positioning. It is a moment of alignment. Not in statements.Not in ceremonies. But in visible, unmistakable posture. The people of Ambazonia are watching. Not for words. But for where the Church stands when it matters most. By

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Commentary

The Arc of Empire Is Long—But It Always finally Breaks

The question is no longer whether systems of imposed control eventually end. History has answered that, repeatedly. The only question that remains is how they end: through managed transition, negotiation, and foresight, or through prolonged conflict, pressure, and eventual rupture By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief The Independentistnews History is not sentimental. It does not reward

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