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The CFA Franc: A Currency of Colonial Control and Economic Dependency

True independence cannot rest on declarations alone. It must be rooted in control over money, markets, and national priorities. Until Africa governs its own currency, political freedom will remain incomplete. By M. C. Folo The Independentistnews contributor In the heart of Africa—where natural resources abound and cultures pulse with life—a quiet but insidious legacy of

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Letters to the Editor

An anonymous Ambazonian Patriot writes to the editor of The Independentist news on the subject of the February 11th 1961 Southern Cameroons Plebiscite.

Letter to the Editor Subject: Why the Southern Cameroons Plebiscite Was Fundamentally Different Sir/Madam, Public discussion of the political status of Southern Cameroons is often dismissed as emotional or revisionist. In fact, the issue rests on a clear, verifiable historical and legal distinction: the plebiscite conducted in British Southern Cameroons was fundamentally different from the

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Editorial commentary

When a State Turns on Its Own People, It Loses the Right to Rule: Understanding Cameroon’s Legitimacy Crisis in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia)

Cameroon may still control territory by force. It may still benefit from international inertia. But legitimacy cannot be maintained at gunpoint. A government that wages war on civilians forfeits the moral and legal basis to rule them. In Southern Cameroons, the crisis is no longer about reform—it is about whether a people can be governed

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Editorial commentary

Ambazonia and the Pan-African Reparations Movement: A Converging Struggle for Justice, Repair, and Self-Determination

Pan-African reparations are not only about repairing the past. They are about ending injustice where it still lives. Ambazonia’s case reminds the world that decolonization delayed is justice denied, and that reparations without political truth remain incomplete. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief Executive Framing The contemporary Pan-African reparations movement—revitalized through diaspora summits, continental dialogues, and

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Communique

THE AMBAZONIAN LIBERATION PROJECT A REFORM MANIFESTO FOR DISCIPLINE, LEGITIMACY, AND HUMAN-CENTERED RESISTANCE

Restoring Moral Authority, Political Coherence, and Civilian Trust By Efase Wole, PhD for The Independentistnews Preface: Situating This Reform Within Presidential Doctrine, Operationalizing the Governing Principles of the Ambazonian Presidency This document is written in explicit alignment with the governing doctrine articulated by President Samuel Ikome Sako, President of the Government of the Federal Republic

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Commentary

Recycled Power, Permanent War: Yaoundé’s New Cabinet Exposes a State That Cannot Reform

This new cabinet leak, is not a reset. It is a holding pattern for a failing order. A government that answers crisis with recycling has already admitted defeat. History will not remember this cabinet as a solution—but as evidence. By Kfusalu Bochong and Mankah Rosa Parks, The Independentistnews Editorial Desk A Cabinet of Survival, Not

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Investigative report

Targeting Civilians and the Manufactured Blame on the ASA: What the Facts Actually Show

Mr. Ngwang Raphael Njeba’s death is a tragedy. So too are the deaths of Senator Kemende Henry, Wardress Florence Ayafor, and Hon. Abe Michael. Exploiting these tragedies to launder state violence and criminalize a people’s resistance compounds the harm. The facts point not to a rogue resistance agenda, but to a failed and brutal state

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Editorial commentary

The Witch Hunt Begins, and France Slides Toward the Precipice

The political class, sensing the ground give way beneath them, has reached for an old reflex: internal purges instead of structural reform. Blame prosecutors. Blame ministers. Blame immigrants. Blame the opposition. Blame anyone—except the system itself. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief France is discovering—too late—that empires do not collapse with a bang. They rot, then

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News analysis

The Evil of Yaoundé: How Blacklegs Are Used to Impose Illegal Taxes on Ambazonian Civilians

What is happening on the Bamenda–Kom road must be named without euphemism. It is not security. It is not community regulation. It is not resistance taxation. It is state-enabled extortion by an occupying power, executed through blacklegs to maintain deniability and control. By Kfusalu Bochong, for The Independentistnews The occupation strategy of Yaoundé has entered

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Editorial commentary

France Can’t Pass a Budget — Yet Claims to Rule Others

A country that once dictated constitutions abroad is now begging for emergency laws just to keep spending. Parliament is paralysed. Governments fall one after another. Deficits explode. Investors watch nervously. This is what decline looks like. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief France is entering a new year without a budget. No plan. No agreement. No

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