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An Open Letter to the Editor. Herald Comm. Inc. c/o Boniface Forbin Ph.D. Dear Sir, June 16th, 1999 Re-expulsion of the Herald correspondent from Bui Division We read, with a lot of consternation, your editorial on the Monday 7th June 1999 newspaper on the expulsion of your correspondent Ngah Christian Mbigbo from Bui Division for
Ngah Christian’s call is not bold. It is not visionary. It is not courageous. It is not prophetic. It is political recycling — old obedience politics dressed in moral language. Peace without justice is fraud. Dialogue without security is theatre. Reconciliation without reform is propaganda. Disarmament without freedom is political suicide. By Ali Dan Ismael
People now recognize narrative laundering, identity substitution, representation engineering, political cosmetics, charity camouflage, biographical propaganda, and credential worship. The era where CVs silence suffering is over. The era where titles replace truth is over. The era where biographies erase blood is over. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentistnews Dictatorships do not survive by repression alone.
The birth of the internet and the rise of social media have broken the monopoly of historical storytelling. Small communities, suppressed peoples, and marginalized nations now document their own histories. Hidden pathways are being exposed. Manipulation networks are being mapped. Imperial strategies are being decoded. Narrative control is collapsing. By The Independentistnews editorial Desk The
The French diplomatic dispatch is not historical background — it is structural evidence. It proves that: the crisis was known, the risks were documented, the grievances were real, the system was unsustainable and the collapse was predictable. By Ali Dan Ismael, Kemi Ashu and Mankah Rosa Parks. The Independentistnews Political Desk A Strategic International Communication
Pan-Africanism was born as a doctrine of liberation from colonial domination. In 2026, it is being repurposed as a tool of internal annexation. The “unity” promoted by the Biya regime over the former British southern Cameroons—and enabled by the African Union’s silence—is not a union of consent but a union of conquest. By Timothy Enongene
The Ambazonian struggle presents the African Union with a historic opportunity to decolonize itself. It can either remain a club of incumbents shielding one another from accountability, or evolve into a union that protects the aspirations of Africa’s peoples. By Timothy Enongene, Guest Editor-in-Chief The Independentistnews Addis Ababa January 23, 2026 – The headquarters of
By refusing to correct this historical injustice, the African Union chooses the legacy of forced unions over the Pan-African principle of voluntary association. A continent cannot be decolonized if its leading institution still worships colonial cartography. No border is more sacred than the blood of children in Gidado or Ngarbuh. By Timothy Enongene, Guest editor
Former Southern Cameroonians have not been absent from public life. They have served as ministers, parliamentary leaders, and senior administrators. But these roles have largely remained symbolically inclusive while structurally constrained—representation without authority, presence without power. By Ndifor Richard M. The Independentistnews contributor Cameroon’s Ambazonian conflict did not arise suddenly, nor is it the result
Bamboo Colonialism: How Yaoundé Is Still Selling Ambazonian Land Like It Owns It
The UK partnership is not economic — it is optical. It provides international legitimacy, donor credibility, diplomatic cover, diaspora deception, and development branding. This is foreign legitimacy laundering. The regime does not want UK investment; it wants UK symbolism — a stamp, a logo, a flag, a narrative — so it can say, “The world