We are home to news on Cameroon and the CEMAC region. We are dedicated to honest and reliable reporting. We are the voice of the Cameroonian people and their fight for freedom and democracy at a time when the Yaoundé government is silencing dissent and suppressing democratic voices.
The Yaoundé doves incident will likely be remembered not because of the Archbishop’s speech, but because of what happened after the speech ended. Political systems survive on carefully controlled images. But occasionally reality interrupts the performance. By Timothy Enongene Associate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News When Political Theatre Meets Reality There are moments in history when
The tragedy of extractive governance is that it eventually destroys the state itself. The same “Chop Broke Pot” mentality once used against Ambazonia is now becoming a burden around the neck of the entire Cameroonian system: collapsing public trust,youth hopelessness, economic stagnation, institutional paralysis, corruption, and centralized dependency. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News
The question future generations may ask is not whether Professor Elvis Ngole Ngole was educated or polite. The question may instead become: What did he do with his influence during one of the greatest political crises affecting his people? And on that question, history may ultimately deliver a far harsher verdict than contemporary political ceremonies
The twilight of a political era always creates uncertainty. But uncertainty also creates possibility. For Ambazonia, the central challenge is no longer simply surviving a conflict. It is demonstrating readiness for a future. A future built not only on resistance, but on governance. Not only on grievance, but on institutional vision. Not only on historical
France acted according to French interests. Britain acted according to British interests. That is how states behave. The lesson for Ambazonia is therefore not bitterness alone, but strategic maturity. No nation survives long-term through foreign sympathy alone. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The roots of the Ambazonian crisis are not merely local. They
Whether history ultimately judges Nzo Ekangaki as a statesman, a pragmatist, or a collaborator will depend largely on how future generations interpret the collapse of the federal experiment and the unresolved Southern Cameroons question. What remains beyond dispute is that he was not an ordinary politician. By The Independentist News Editorial Desk The Rise of
The final question now hangs permanently over Cameroon’s political history Who died first — Fru Ndi or the SDF? For many former supporters, the answer is clear. The SDF died long before its Chairman. And Ni John Fru Ndi simply lived long enough to witness the funeral of the movement that once changed history. By
Today, the Philipson Report remains preserved within the The National Archives under reference CO 554/1602. More than 300 pages long, it survives as one of the most politically explosive colonial-era documents relating to the Southern Cameroons question. Not because it contains radical ideology. Not because it advocates separatism. But because it reveals something far more
The great geopolitical reckoning now underway may ultimately determine not only the future of London, Washington, Canada, Greenland, or the Strait of Hormuz. It may also determine whether the twenty-first century continues preserving old imperial financial architectures — or finally opens space for new sovereignties to emerge. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The
FRANCE FINALLY BURIES THE BLACK CODE. WHEN WILL THE WORLD CONFRONT THE COLONIAL QUESTION OF AMBAZONIA?
France has finally acknowledged one chapter of its colonial history. The question now is whether the international community possesses the courage to examine the others. History suggests that eventually it will have no choice. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News For nearly two centuries after France officially abolished slavery, one of the most