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The Bedrock of Africa’s Divisions: How colonial borders, imported institutions and post-independence failures continue to separate the continent

Africa’s diversity is not its curse. The curse is the repeated political manipulation of that diversity. Colonial powers drew the borders. But present-day African leaders decide whether those borders become homes shared by equal citizens or prisons maintained by force. By Prince Tebo, The Independentist News contributor Africa is frequently described as a continent divided

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The Gaullist Architecture of Containment: Why Yaoundé’s Political System Recruits Southern Cameroonian Elites to Defend Centralized Rule

Southern Cameroons does not need more symbolic inclusion in a structure that denies its political identity. It needs a settlement based on consent. Until that happens, every new appointment will polish the appearance of unity while leaving the architecture of containment standing. By Timothy Enongene. Associate Editor-in-Chief, Independentist News Yaoundé – July 14, 2026 –

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Empire, Extraction, and the Warning to Ambazonia Part I: Churchill’s Empire of Extraction What India, British Africa, the CDC, and PAMOL Teach Ambazonia About Economic Sovereignty

The choice facing Ambazonia is therefore not simply between colonial rule and political independence. It is between an economy organized for the prosperity of others and a Republic designed to retain the value created by its own people. Anything less would not complete liberation. It would merely localize extraction. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The

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Trump’s Hamiltonian Gamble: Economic Nationalism, Tariffs, Public Credit, the Cost of Empire, and the Unfinished Return of America’s First Industrial Strategy

Trump has reopened that debate. His challenge is to prove that America can reduce the cost of empire, resist the doctrine of extraction and rebuild productive power without sacrificing public credit, institutional stability or the alliances that support its global influence.Tariffs can open the door to industrial renewal.Only investment, knowledge, fiscal discipline and enduring institutions

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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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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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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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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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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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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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