The Prisoner Negotiation Dilemma: Did Mandela Deliver for Black South Africans at the Negotiation Table?
History is not learned in order to be repeated; it is learned in order to be corrected. A wise person learns from his own mistakes; a wiser person learns from the mistakes of others. Mandela’s experience offers a powerful lesson: prisoners should not negotiate for free people. 18 January 2026Abdulkarim AliKondengui Central Prison It is


The “Doing and Denying” Strategy: State Mediation, Plausible Denial, and the Ambazonian Conflict
Cameroon’s history suggests that mediation without documentation, guarantees, or institutional backing is vulnerable to strategic reversal. The Ndongmo Affair is not merely a historical tragedy; it is a structural warning. For the Ambazonian conflict, the implication is clear: any future dialogue that relies on private assurances rather than recorded mandates risks reproducing the failures of