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Before asking Southern Cameroonians to embrace another political project emerging from Yaoundé, those seeking to lead Cameroon should first answer a more fundamental question: Why should Southern Cameroonians believe that changing the president is the same as changing the constitutional relationship? By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News Every election season in La République du
The future spiritual life of Ambazonia should not be built around fear of prophets or dependence upon imported personalities. It should be built around a mature relationship with God, respect for truth, ethical leadership, strong families, responsible work, and service to others. By Judith ElondoSpiritual Leader and contributor to The Independentist Newswww.judithspiritualteaching.com Ambazonia is experiencing
Perhaps the stars and heavenly bodies are aligned for Ambazonians. Perhaps Yaoundé’s succession uncertainty, the declining credibility of military rule, the persistence of the Southern Cameroons question, the growing demand for civilian protection, and the emerging emphasis on national readiness have created an opening that did not exist before. But history does not reward those
Pope Leo’s April 2026 visit to Cameroon also demonstrated that spiritual authority can create political space. His itinerary included Bamenda, where he held a Mass and a meeting for peace amid a conflict that has killed thousands and displaced large populations. By Judith ElondoSpiritual Leader and contributor to The Independentist News www.judithspiritualteaching.com Pope Leo XIV
The greatest monuments of a nation are not always its bridges, highways, or government buildings. Sometimes they are the quiet homes where children learn honesty, husbands learn humility, wives learn trust, and families discover that respect is stronger than fear. That is where nations are truly born. Before Ambazonia rebuilds its republic, it must rebuild
The Ambazonian objective should not be to replace centralized authority in Yaoundé with another extractive elite operating from Buea. It should be to build a constitutional and productive republic in which power is accountable, counties are capable, citizens are protected, strategic assets are nationally governed, and foreign partnerships strengthen rather than diminish national freedom. That
The resulting arrangement is a double colonial chokehold. Britain hides behind the visibility of France. France hides behind the formal sovereignty of La République du Cameroun. Yaoundé describes the Southern Cameroons question as an internal linguistic disagreement, thereby concealing the deeper international and constitutional history. The flags changed, but the gate remained in the same
What appears to be “marrying down” according to one measure may be a carefully chosen partnership across several forms of value. The future of marriage in the African diaspora may therefore depend less on finding a man who stands above a woman and more on finding two people capable of standing together. By Ali Dan
When government trusts the people enough to respect their rights, and the people trust government enough to protect its lawful institutions, counterintelligence ceases to be merely the hidden work of the state. It becomes a covenant between the republic and its citizens By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News Part V established the constitutional
THE DEMOGRAPHIC DEMOLITION: How Yaoundé’s Population Politics Conceal a Militarised Geography of Power
Southern Cameroons must draw the correct lesson. We should expose demographic and military inequality wherever credible evidence supports it. But we must also build a future political culture in which evidence is stronger than outrage, institutions are stronger than personalities, and public authority is never captured by one region, one faction or one generation. By