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ECHOES FROM GENEVA: NEW CLAIMS RAISE GRAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT PAUL BIYA’S HEALTH AND CAMEROON’S CONSTITUTIONAL FUTURE

Sixty-five days after the president’s departure, the Cameroonian public has still not received a comprehensive and authoritative explanation of his condition, his capacity to continue performing presidential duties or the constitutional arrangements under which executive authority is presently being exercised. That silence matters. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News YAOUNDÉ/GENEVA – 11 August 2026

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WHEN FOREIGN CAPITALS STOP TRUSTING THE SIGNATURE: Paul Biya, the International Architecture of “Stability,” Britain’s Banana Legacy, and the Southern Cameroons Reckoning

Never build the republic around one man. Never allow foreign partners to value the ruler more than the institutions. Never exchange political dignity for somebody else’s definition of stability. And never permit bananas, oil, minerals, ports, or any other productive asset to become more valuable than the people whose land produced them. By Timothy Enongene,

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AMBAZONIA MUST NOT BECOME SOMEBODY ELSE’S MARKET: The China Shock, America’s Return to Africa, and the Fight for Productive Sovereignty

China will pursue China. America will pursue America. Europe will pursue Europe. No serious Ambazonian should be offended by that. The responsibility of an Ambazonian government would be to pursue Ambazonia. Trade widely. Welcome investment. Purchase useful technology. Build relationships with competing powers. Take advantage of Chinese market access. Seek access to American markets. Participate

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ROME WENT TO THE WOUND; CANTERBURY WALKED THROUGH THE HISTORY: Pope Leo XIV, Archbishop Sarah Mullally, and the Unfinished Moral Question of Southern Cameroons

Cape Coast demonstrated that Britain can look backward at an acknowledged historical wrong. Southern Cameroons asks whether British institutions can look directly at an unresolved one. That is the harder test. And that is why the journey should not end with photographs, church services, official welcomes, and departure ceremonies. Canterbury has walked through the geography.

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COMING SOON BOOK REVIEW OF THE TRILOGY: The Human Signature · Authorial Integrity · The Accountable Author. A Review from the Perspective of the Ambazonia Community

This is why VOICE → OWNERSHIP → ACCOUNTABILITY has potential beyond the three books themselves. It can become a framework for thinking about Ambazonian intellectual and institutional development. Writers should know what they are saying. Scholars should be able to prove what they know. Institutions should know who is responsible for what they decide. By

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Editorial commentary

62 DAYS OUT: NGOH NGOH IS NOT PRESIDENT — AND A SIGNATURE DOES NOT MAKE HIM ONE.The Growing Attempt to Turn Delegated Authority into a Presidency Deserves to Be Challenged

Calling Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh the “de facto President of Cameroon” remains a political interpretation, not an established constitutional fact. The deeper scandal may lie elsewhere. A country should not have to guess who is exercising its highest executive authority. By The Independentist News editorial desk For 62 days, President Paul Biya has remained outside Cameroon.

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SAKO’S PRESS CONFERENCE: AMBAZONIA HAS SURVIVED THE STORM—NOW IT MUST BE WATCHFUL, Ten Years After It Was Expected to Collapse, the Southern Cameroons Question Remains Alive.

Ambazonia has survived the storm. Now it must remain watchful enough, organized enough, and politically mature enough to recognize when history finally opens the door. And when that door opens, it must be prepared to walk through it. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News BUEA – 9 August 2026 – Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako’s

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IF YOU CANNOT FIGHT THEM, OUTMANEUVER THEM: How Britain Learned to Preserve Influence Through Trade, Made Peace with France, and Left Southern Cameroons Inside an Imperial Chokepoint

The challenge before Ambazonia is therefore larger than political independence. It is to build enough constitutional, economic, intellectual, productive, and institutional redundancy that no single gate can ever hold the Republic hostage. And the greatest mistake a future Ambazonia could make would be to win the political struggle while leaving that imperial gate exactly where

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Spiritual Advice

NEW IN THE INDEPENDENTIST NEWS: (DEAR SPIRITUAL LEADER) A New Spiritual, Personal, and Family Guidance Column for our readers

Write to DEAR SPIRITUAL LEADER. Your question may help you understand your own journey. It may help another family avoid unnecessary pain.It may help our community rediscover the difference between spirituality and fear. There are moments in life when a person does not need another political argument, another accusation, or another voice telling him whom

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BANANA LEAVES TIKO, SIGNATURE LEAVES YAOUNDÉ: The Entente Logic, Paul Biya, and the International System That Learned to Live With Southern Cameroons’ Extraction and Conflict

Britain could obtain its bananas. France could maintain its extensive commercial relationships. The Commonwealth could retain its member. La Francophonie could retain its member. The international system could preserve one sovereign interlocutor. And Yaoundé could retain the signature. No secret treaty was necessary for those interests to converge. The functional arrangement was enough. So yes,

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