Commentary

Winning Freedom Is Not Enough: What Alexander Hamilton Teaches Ambazonia About Public Credit, Productive Power, and Institutions That Endure

Political freedom opens the door. Productive power gives the nation strength. Public credit gives it credibility. Enduring institutions ensure that the Republic remains standing long after its founders have passed from the scene. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-chief The Independentist News Alexander Hamilton remains relevant to Ambazonia not because of the personal secrets, political rivalries

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Public scrutiny

Kate Fotso, Telcar Cocoa, and the Atlantic Zone’s Extracted Prosperity: Economic Harm Against the Indigenous Bakweri People and the Case for a Future Legal Accounting. From Colonial Exploitation to Indigenous Proxies, the Game Remains the Same

From colonial exploitation to indigenous proxies, the pattern has become unmistakable. The next chapter must be disclosure. The next chapter must be Indigenous economic ownership. The next chapter must be farmer power. The next chapter must be restitution where harm is established. And where credible evidence proves unlawful conduct, the next chapter must be justice

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Uncategorized News

Bini Riva Festival: Delta Communities Set for a showdown

The Bini Riva Festival is expected to attract residents, tourists, athletes, artists, fishermen, content creators and cultural enthusiasts from within and outside Delta State. By Henry Ovie EbireriThe Independentist News ContributorMediaGate Nigeria The 2026 Bini Riva Festival will begin in Koko, Delta State Nigeria, on August 8, bringing together riverine communities for a three-day celebration

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Commentary

What Ambazonia Can Learn From Transactional Partnership, Resource Nationalism and Resistance to Foreign Control

Saudi Arabia learned that Western engagement could be negotiated and gradually transformed. Iran learned that foreign economic control could become political domination. Ambazonia should learn from both. From Saudi Arabia, it should learn how to bargain. From Iran, it should learn why the ability to resist remains essential. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist Saudi

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News commentary

How Cameroon’s National Hydro Carbons corporation (SNH) Foiled the National Gas Strategy: The Departure of Hilli Episeyo Exposes Institutional Failure, Lost Industrial Opportunity, and the Struggle Over Gas Resources in Ambazonian Waters

Resources controlled by unaccountable institutions can leave a people as poor as they were before extraction began. The Hilli Episeyo is leaving because another country prepared a future for it. Ambazonia must prepare a future for its gas. The vessel can sail away. The lesson must remain. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News A

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News commentary

State Firm SNH and Presidency Back Rival Refinery and Storage Projects, as Overcapacity Looms: Why the Oil Power Struggle in Yaoundé Should Concern Every Ambazonian

For Ambazonians, the central question is simple: Will Victoria remain a serious center of petroleum refining and maritime industry, or will its strategic economic functions be transferred elsewhere while Ambazonia is left with the ruins, risks, and memories of what it once hosted? By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News A new struggle over petroleum

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Commentary

FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 SEMI FINAL CLASH – MORE THAN A GAME: England and Argentina, a Historical Confrontation on the Pitch

The final whistle will end the match. It will not end the historical questions awakened by it. In 1982, Britain showed that no territory is too small when national interest makes it important. In 2026, the uncertainty surrounding NATO and American support shows that no alliance is permanent when interests change. Argentina shows that a

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Commentary

The Architecture of Division: How France’s Colonial Playbook Keeps Yaoundé in Power

If we understand the playbook, we can defeat it. If we refuse manufactured rivalries, we can build trust. If we discipline our ambitions, we can build institutions. If we place the future above personal position, we can transform liberation energy into national power. Yaoundé survives by division. Ambazonia must rise through unity, maturity, and strategic

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Editorial

Towards an African Economic Powerhouse: Modeling the African Union after the European Union

Africa does not need forced unity. It needs functional unity. It does not need artificial mergers. It needs continental mobility. It does not need the erasure of nations. It needs the liberation of African opportunity. That is how Africa becomes an economic powerhouse. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, Independentist News Addis Abba – July 15, 2026

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Commentary

A PEOPLE ARE NOT A LANGUAGE: Why Abandoning “Anglophone” Is Essential to Freedom, Justice, and Peace in the Southern Cameroons

Ambazonia is aspirational — a name that points to what some of us hope to build. Anglophone is fictional — a name that describes no country, no territory, no people, only a colonial school report. The Southern Cameroons is real. It has a map. It has a history. It has a capital, a coastline, a

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