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No people should entrust its future to the cleverness of old empires or the forceful style of foreign powers. Britain’s ambiguity cannot be the foundation of Ambazonian freedom. American directness cannot substitute for Ambazonian institution-building. The future Republic must develop its own diplomatic culture: truthful, lawful, strategic, restrained, courageous, and morally clear. By The Independentist
The task facing Ambazonians today is to ensure that the pursuit of peace, self-determination, regional stability, and accountable government becomes impossible for Britain—and the wider international community—to dismiss as strategically irrelevant. Britain’s interests may not be eternal in Southern Cameroons. Its historical responsibility is. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News Some diplomatic conversations remain
Resolve differences through dialogue, law, mediation, and community institutions. Protect the innocent. Preserve trust. Refuse to hand ordinary disputes over to forces whose intervention may produce consequences far beyond anything the caller intended. Once armed violence enters a community, no one controls where it ends. By Carl SandersGuest Writer The Independentist News, Soho, London BAMENDA
Freedom must be prepared before it is proclaimed. That preparation begins now: through unity, discipline, documentation, diplomacy, civic organization, policy clarity, and a firm commitment to building a Republic worthy of trust. Yaoundé’s weakness may create the opening. Ambazonian discipline must create the future. By Carl Sanders, Guest WriterIndependentist News | Soho, London Buea –
The future of Africa will not be built by nostalgia for empire, dependence on foreign protectors, or blind trust in inherited postcolonial states. It will be built by peoples who insist that sovereignty must serve dignity, justice, prosperity, and accountable government. The Independentist News Editorial desk Burkina Faso’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with France
A state that hides too much eventually loses control of the truth. And when a government loses control of the truth, it begins to lose control of authority itself. By Carl Sanders, Guest WriterIndependentist News | Soho, London Yaoundé (Etoudi palace) – July 11, 2026 -The silence surrounding the fake presidential decree has done more
This will be secured by institutions. It will be secured by courts that citizens can trust, elections that people believe, councils that serve communities, leaders who accept limits, and a government that treats citizens not as subjects to be managed, but as owners of the Republic. The democratic blueprint is not lost. It is waiting
If Africa is to reclaim its place in the world, it must look not only to size, power, and old prestige. It must look to truth, courage, accountability, and institutional renewal. That is the promise Ambazonia must prepare to fulfill. By Carl Sanders, Guest Writer The Independentist News | Soho, London For decades, many Africans
A state that cannot promptly explain its own decisions loses moral and administrative authority. A people seeking freedom must therefore build something better: a Republic where government speaks clearly, records are trusted, public authority is accountable, and truth does not have to crawl through the corridors of power before reaching the people. By Carl Sanders,
The Entente Cordiale: Peace Among Empires, Not Justice for the Colonized
Africa does not need another arrangement designed by outsiders. Africa needs sovereignty with competence, partnership without submission, peace with justice, and stability rooted in the dignity of its own people. Peace among empires is not enough. Real peace must include justice for the colonized. By Ali Dan Ismael. Editor-in-chief The Independentist News This is how