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The greatest victories of peoples are rarely born from the belief that victory will be easy. They are born from the conviction that justice is necessary and from the discipline required to make justice sustainable. Let Osun be the message. Let 2027 be the test. Let the people rise. Let the ballots speak. Let democracy
Africa too often negotiates only to acquire finished projects and debt. That must change. When Africa negotiates as a divided collection of commodity exporters, external powers dictate the terms. When Africa integrates as a productive market, it begins writing the terms itself. When opportunity circulates where people live, migration becomes a choice. Until then, the
As Dr. Martin S. Mungwa argues in Ambazonia 2050 & Beyond, the objective is not simply to establish another state. It is to build a constitutional, productive and polycentric republic capable of converting sovereignty into human flourishing. That is the Ambazonia we must build. The future will not build itself. We must begin building it
Britain, America, and the wider West should ask whether they have genuinely moved beyond judging human legitimacy through pigmentation, or whether they have merely learned to celebrate diversity while preserving older tests of who truly belongs. By Ali Dan Ismael and Timothy Enongene, The Independentist News editorial desk Get more books on racism from Amazon
Fear can produce obedience. It cannot produce legitimacy. Different gatekeeper, same architecture, is not liberation. Africa has experienced enough power without transformation. What Africa now needs is legitimate authority—and the spiritual transmutation necessary to sustain it. By Judith Elondo, spiritual contributor, The Independentist News As Amazon Associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Get inspirational
Are Ambazonians becoming more organized, disciplined and economically productive? Are institutions becoming more credible than personalities? Can disagreements be managed without destroying national purpose? Are leaders becoming more accountable? Are communities being strengthened? Are young people being prepared to govern and produce? Are citizens learning to place constitutional responsibility above factional loyalty? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate
Britain was late in securing durable safeguards around the 1961 transition. It was late in responding to the consequences of centralization. It was late to the humanitarian catastrophe. Canterbury arrived after Rome had already directed the world’s attention toward Bamenda. If Britain wishes to become consequential, it must do more than arrive after everyone else.
Who accepted the completed system? Who benefits when it succeeds? Who pays when it fails? Until those questions are answered publicly, the €274 million obligation should be understood not merely as money owed to foreign companies but as a warning that Cameroon’s infrastructure, diplomacy, and postcolonial economic arrangements have converged into a national debt chokepoint.
That is the deeper meaning of the polycentric republic. It is not simply a country financed from many places. It is a country strong enough to choose among them. It is a country in which outside capital competes for access to productive opportunity instead of government begging for access to capital. It is a country
The President Who Looked Abroad While Cameroon Went Dark: Biya, Foreign Approval, and the Moral Exhaustion of the Commonwealth and La Francophonie
French Cameroun did not go dark because the world refused to praise its president. It went dark because the survival of the ruler became more important than the success of the nation—and foreign acceptance helped make that failure sustainable. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying