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THE EMPIRE THAT CANNOT SEE BEYOND ITS NOSE: How Britain and the Commonwealth Lost Their Moral Authority in Southern Cameroons

Modern Britain claims justice but repeatedly fails to demonstrate sufficient courage. Joseph Chamberlain’s generation imagined British power extending as far as the eye could see. Today, Britain seems unwilling to see beyond the immediate convenience of diplomatic silence.Truly, the British Empire is gone. What remains to be determined is whether Britain still possesses the moral

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THE SHADOW EMPEROR OF ETOUDI: Exiled Intelligence Captain Accuses Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh of High Treason and Exposes an Alleged “Palace Cartel” Running Cameroon

Captain Effoudou’s accusations remain allegations until independently substantiated. Yet the institutional questions they raise cannot be dismissed merely because they originate from exile or from a former insider in conflict with the regime. By Timothy Enongene, Associate Editor-in-chief. The Independentist News EUROPE – 24 July 2026 – The bitter and increasingly public succession struggle surrounding

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THE SUCCESSION QUESTION YAOUNDÉ CAN NO LONGER AVOID: What Ambazonia Must Do During Cameroon’s Constitutional and Political Uncertainty

Ambazonia’s leadership must demonstrate that independence is not simply a demand for territorial control. It is a commitment to lawful authority, public accountability, equal citizenship and institutions capable of serving the people. The immediate task is therefore not to wait for the announcement of one man’s demise. It is to prepare responsibly for the uncertain

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Africa’s Youth and the Demographic contradictions of the West (Part III) Aid, Extraction and the Battle for Africa’s Sovereignty. The lessons for Ambazonia

This is Africa’s moment to recognize its strength. Recognition, however, is only the beginning. Strength must be organized. Resources must be converted into enduring assets. Population must be transformed into human capital. Knowledge must support intellectual sovereignty. Political independence must be secured by productive capability. Leadership must be restrained by law and accountable institutions. Ambazonia

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Africa’s Youth and the demographic contradiction of the West (Part II) Who Will Govern Africa’s Demographic Future?

Allsopp’s human-habitat warning should be heard. But its implications must extend beyond population anxiety. The appropriate response is not to fear African children. It is to create the institutions, settlements and economies within which they can flourish. The responsible question is not whether African children should be born. The question is: Who will govern Africa’s

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Africa’s Youth and the Demographic Contradictions of the West (Part I)

The children the West warns Africa not to have may ultimately become the doctors who treat it, the engineers who rebuild it, the caregivers who sustain its elderly and the entrepreneurs who revitalize its economies. The question is not whether those children should exist. The question is whether Africa and the world will prepare them

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Governing from the Crypt: The 21.6-Billion-FCFA Decree and Yaoundé’s Ghost-Signature Controversy

The controversy surrounding this decree will continue—not because critics invented uncertainty, but because the regime created it. The question is no longer merely whether Paul Biya signed the decree. The question is: who is governing La République du Cameroun, and in whose name? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News YAOUNDÉ -July 22, 2026 –

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The Absurdity of Rule by “Remote-Control”: Dismantling Fame Ndongo’s Defense of an Empty Presidency

What the country cannot accept is a presidency conducted like a political séance—an invisible ruler, inaccessible to the public, invoked by ministers and represented by papers emerging from behind closed doors. Fame Ndongo may call this continuity. To millions of people, it looks increasingly like government without a publicly accountable governor. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief,

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Markets Without Ownership: How Economic Power Was Separated from Black America and Ambazonia (Part I)

America admitted and selected some immigrant populations under conditions that favored economic advancement while continuing to burden Black Americans with the accumulated consequences of centuries of dispossession. The lesson is not that one minority succeeded by stealing from another. It is that a society can celebrate diversity while preserving an economic order in which Black

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Empire, Extraction, and the Ambazonian Warning (Part II) America Saved Britain—but Not Its Empire: How War, Debt, Dollar Power, and Decolonization Ended British Supremacy—and What Ambazonia Must Learn

Ambazonia’s liberation cannot rest upon the guilt of Britain, the generosity of America, the weakness of La République du Cameroun, or the rivalry of foreign powers. It must rest upon the organization, knowledge, productive strength, diplomatic intelligence, and institutional discipline of Ambazonians themselves. A people waiting for another power to complete their freedom may wait

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