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SAKO’S PRESS CONFERENCE: AMBAZONIA HAS SURVIVED THE STORM—NOW IT MUST BE WATCHFUL, Ten Years After It Was Expected to Collapse, the Southern Cameroons Question Remains Alive.

Ambazonia has survived the storm. Now it must remain watchful enough, organized enough, and politically mature enough to recognize when history finally opens the door. And when that door opens, it must be prepared to walk through it. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News BUEA – 9 August 2026 – Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako’s

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IF YOU CANNOT FIGHT THEM, OUTMANEUVER THEM: How Britain Learned to Preserve Influence Through Trade, Made Peace with France, and Left Southern Cameroons Inside an Imperial Chokepoint

The challenge before Ambazonia is therefore larger than political independence. It is to build enough constitutional, economic, intellectual, productive, and institutional redundancy that no single gate can ever hold the Republic hostage. And the greatest mistake a future Ambazonia could make would be to win the political struggle while leaving that imperial gate exactly where

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NEW IN THE INDEPENDENTIST NEWS: (DEAR SPIRITUAL LEADER) A New Spiritual, Personal, and Family Guidance Column for our readers

Write to DEAR SPIRITUAL LEADER. Your question may help you understand your own journey. It may help another family avoid unnecessary pain.It may help our community rediscover the difference between spirituality and fear. There are moments in life when a person does not need another political argument, another accusation, or another voice telling him whom

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Commentary

BANANA LEAVES TIKO, SIGNATURE LEAVES YAOUNDÉ: The Entente Logic, Paul Biya, and the International System That Learned to Live With Southern Cameroons’ Extraction and Conflict

Britain could obtain its bananas. France could maintain its extensive commercial relationships. The Commonwealth could retain its member. La Francophonie could retain its member. The international system could preserve one sovereign interlocutor. And Yaoundé could retain the signature. No secret treaty was necessary for those interests to converge. The functional arrangement was enough. So yes,

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THE BBC THAT FORGOT SOUTHERN CAMEROONS: From Public-Service Broadcasting to Institutional Dependence—and Why Ambazonia Must Learn to Tell Its Own Story

Let the BBC report Southern Cameroons. Let France 24 report it. Let Al Jazeera report it. Let American media report it. But when they get something wrong, there should exist an Ambazonian institution credible enough to correct the record with evidence rather than outrage. That is sovereignty of mind. By Martin S. Mungwa Contributor The

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CANTERBURY REMEMBERS CAPE COAST—WILL IT REMEMBER SOUTHERN CAMEROONS?Archbishop Sarah Mullally, Britain’s Moral Memory, and the Unfinished Responsibility She Encountered in Buea

For Southern Cameroons, the first debt Britain may owe is not financial. It may be the debt of historical honesty. Archbishop Sarah Mullally has now been to Cameroon. She has been to Buea. She has spoken of suffering, displacement and conflict. She has called for genuine and inclusive dialogue. By The Independentist News desk Archbishop

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THE IMMORALITY OF THE BRITISH CROWN TOWARD SOUTHERN CAMEROONS: The Unfinished Trusteeship, the Economic-Viability Smokescreen, and the Commonwealth–Francophonie Shield Around Paul Biya

The question was never whether Southern Cameroons possessed every institution required for prosperity on the day of independence. The question was whether its people should have been permitted to build those institutions under a government accountable to them. Instead, the language of non-viability converted political dispossession into economic advice. Incorporation was presented as rescue. Centralization

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Cosmetic Diplomacy: How Commonwealth Visits and Clerical Neutrality Normalize Southern Cameroons’ Economic Depletion

The powerful do not need additional reassurance. The victims do not need more pageantry. Southern Cameroons needs the mask removed, the archives opened, productive assets accounted for and the constitutional question addressed without predetermined limits. Until then, every cosmetic diplomatic or pastoral visit risks becoming part of the machinery it claims to heal. By Ali

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THE CROSSING OF THE RUBICON: Why Tchiroma’s Dead-End Federalism Cannot Rebuild a Blood-Stained Union

Tchiroma’s federal proposal ultimately fails because it cannot answer one question: why should Southern Cameroonians trust another federal promise from the same state that dismantled the first arrangement, centralized its institutions, militarized the political dispute, and rejected credible mediation? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News Yaounde – August 6, 2026 – The political uncertainty

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The Crown Behind the Curtain: Britain’s Moral Pageantry and the Depletion of Southern Cameroons

Britain cannot continue praising heroes above ground while burying the victims and consequences of empire beneath their monuments. Southern Cameroons does not need another royal expression of concern. It needs the historical record opened, the constitutional injury examined and productive sovereignty returned to the people whose land and labor created the wealth. By Ali Dan

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