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The Illusion of Reform: Yaoundé Still Governs Like Ambazonia Does Not Exist

The world is changing. Africa is changing. The language of sovereignty is changing. And whether one supports Ambazonian independence or not, one fact is becoming increasingly difficult to deny: Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) is no longer being viewed merely as a rebellious province. It is increasingly understood as a potential state. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The

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The Musk Dilemma: How Europe Discovered Its Dependence on American Tech Power

The Musk phenomenon therefore represents something larger than one billionaire entrepreneur. It represents the emergence of a new geopolitical era where: orbital systems rival navies, algorithms rival bureaucracies, digital platforms rival broadcasters, and private technological infrastructure increasingly rivals state capacity itself. By Timothy Enongene, Associate Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News For decades, the European Union projected

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Editorial commentary

Even the Doves Refused the Performance: Yaoundé’s Peace Theatre Meets Reality

The state wants the optics of unity without addressing the fracture beneath it. It wants emotional symbolism without political accountability. It wants the image of reconciliation without the difficult concessions reconciliation demands. And perhaps that is why the doves stayed behind. Because even they understood that peace cannot fly where truth is still grounded. By

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The Trump Effect: Why Western Elites Fear America’s New Assertiveness

Trump unsettles elites not merely because of his personality. He unsettles them because he represents unpredictability inside the most powerful nation on Earth. For decades, Western governments relied upon: predictable American foreign policy, stable alliance systems, global free trade, and institutional diplomacy. Trump disrupted all of that. By Dr. Martin S. Mungwa, F.ASCE The Independentist

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The Enduring Legacy of George Floyd: Six Years Later, the Global Fight for Racial Justice Continues

Six years after his death, the struggle for genuine equality remains unfinished. True reform demands more than symbolic statements or temporary outrage. It requires dismantling the structural biases, institutional protections, and cultural attitudes that permit injustice to persist. The demonstrations of 2020 may have faded from headlines, but the underlying issues that fuelled them remain

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Two Territories, Two Standards: How the Zoétélé Violence Exposes Yaoundé’s Iron Fist in Ambazonia

The events at Zoétélé unintentionally exposed what years of official speeches have attempted to conceal — that the Republic increasingly operates according to two separate political realities, two separate standards of state protection, and ultimately, two separate conceptions of citizenship. And as long as that asymmetry persists, Yaoundé’s annual appeals to “unity” will continue to

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Commentary

The Trap of “Surrender” Misrepresented as Peace: Why Yaoundé’s Prison Games Will Not Stop Ambazonia

The central miscalculation of Yaoundé may therefore be this: believing that the imprisonment of leaders can extinguish the historical forces that produced the conflict itself. And until that misunderstanding changes, the search for a durable resolution will remain painfully out of reach. By Mankah Rosa ParksSenior Investigative Correspondent, The Independentist News, Soho, London YAOUNDÉ –

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Letters to the Editor

A fervent reader of The Independentistnews Dr. Nicolas Epie writes to the editor, raising the need of a free Ambazonia in the context of a future United Africa

Letter To the Editor, Dear Editor, The vision of African unity remains one of the continent’s noblest and most enduring aspirations. For generations, Africans have hoped for a future founded upon cooperation, peace, economic integration, mutual respect, and collective advancement. Yet lasting unity cannot be sustainably constructed upon unresolved political unions or contested constitutional foundations.

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Communique

The Judge Who Terrified Ahidjo: How Chief Justice Emmanuel Kofi Mensah Became the Last Great Guardian of Southern Cameroons’ Anglo-Saxon Rule of Law

We remember him as one of the heroes of Ambazonian freedom. He may have fled the country. But history increasingly suggests he understood the future better than those who drove him out. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News History often remembers presidents, politicians, and military strongmen. Yet sometimes, the fate of nations quietly turns

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The Judicial Carousel: Why Yaoundé’s Prison Coercion and the “Mandela Myth” Cannot Extinguish Ambazonia

A signature extracted under conditions of detention cannot automatically dissolve a conflict sustained by years of collective trauma, displacement, militarization, and hardened political consciousness. And until Yaoundé fully confronts that reality, the judicial carousel will continue to turn without delivering the peace it promises. By Mankah Rosa ParksSenior Investigative Correspondent, The Independentist News, Soho, London

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