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May 20: A Celebration Without Consent—Why Southern Cameroons Must Permanently Reject It

May 20 does not resolve the question of Southern Cameroons. It exposes it. And the more it is performed without consent, the clearer that exposure becomes. For in the end, nations are not held together by ceremonies, but by legitimacy. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News History does not merely remember dates. It

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Letters to the Editor

An Anonymous Patriot and fervent reader of The Independentist News, writes to the editor saying Cameroon’s Unresolved Decolonisation Question goes beyond language

Letter to the editor Dear Editor, Recent public events involving Paul Biya and Pope Leo XIV have reignited discussion about language and representation in Cameroon. Much of that discussion has focused on bilingualism—its promises, its shortcomings, and its uneven application. While these concerns are valid, they risk obscuring a more fundamental issue. The central question

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Commentary

Elections Without Consent, Power Without Legitimacy: Why Yaoundé Cannot Negotiate Ambazonia

Negotiation without legitimacy is theater. Dialogue without consent is imposition. Elections without participation are performance. And power without legitimacy—no matter how long it endures—remains fundamentally negotiable, but not on its own terms. History has settled that argument already. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News A Crisis Beyond Misunderstanding History is unforgiving to illusions.

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Rebuttal/Response

Reciprocity Without Reality: A Response to Professor. Dze-Ngwa’s Open Letter. Why his call for “inclusive dialogue” risks managing the conflict rather than resolving it

Professor Willibroad Dze-Ngwa, your letter calls for peace. That objective is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the structure through which that peace is pursued. Because peace is not determined by intention. It is determined by process. By Timothy Enongene Guest Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News Professor Willibroad Dze-Ngwa, your recent open letter—issued in

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Communique

In the aftermath of the Papal visit, Dr. Willibroad Dze-Ngwa calls on the actors of the ongoing war to heed to the Pope’s call for dialogue and peace

An Open Letter to His Excellency President Paul Biya and the Leadership of Anglophone Movements, Following the Apostolic Visit of His Holiness Pope XIV to Cameroon: A Call for Reciprocal Concessions and Inclusive Dialogue Your Excellency,Distinguished Leaders of the Anglophone Movements, I write with deep respect and a shared sense of urgency to all parties

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News analysis

Peace Optics vs. Political Reality: Who Controls the Narrative in Bamenda? When “dialogue” becomes containment—and symbolism begins to replace justice

For Ambazonians—and for the international community observing—the responsibility now is not to react to the imagery, but to interrogate the process. Is this pathway leading toward a just resolution? Or is it engineering the conditions for a prolonged, managed conflict? By Timothy Enongene Guest Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News In moments of conflict, power does not

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Book Review

Revisiting The Bafut Beagles

Revisiting The Bafut Beagles today is not simply an exercise in nostalgia. It is an opportunity to reflect on how worlds meet, interpret, and reshape one another. In one forgotten pair of spectacles, Durrell captured a universal truth: what we see depends not only on our eyes—but on the stories we bring to what is

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PEACE WITHOUT DIALOGUE IS SHAMEFUL — BUT WHO PAYS THE PRICE? When moral truth collides with political power, Ambazonia confronts the danger of “managed peace” and the urgency of real negotiation

The question now is whether that truth will remain a statement—or become a process. Because if dialogue is necessary, then its absence is no longer procedural. It is consequential. And in conflicts of this scale, consequences do not disappear. They accumulate—politically, morally, and historically. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News There are moments

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Communique

The Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia (in exile) reacts to the SDF Position on the Ambazonian war of Independence

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Appreciation

The Independentist News – Note of appreciation

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