Editors Note

Adelle Nazarian of the Western Journal calls on the US Government to consider having diplomatic dealings with Ambazonia

By The Independentist News editorial desk In her OP-ED published in the reknowned Western Journal of Over 800 thousand readership, Adelle Nazarian, equates the British southern Cameroons (Ambazonia ) to Greenland in the eye of America’s diplomatic interest. A very strategic comparison for the people of Ambazonia aspiring for their right to self determination. click

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NKAMOUNA, WASHINGTON, AND THE NEW POLITICS OF AFRICA’S STRATEGIC MINERALS: What an American Bid for Cobalt and Nickel Reveals About Power, Ownership, and U.S. Interests in Cameroon

Nkamouna may eventually become an important cobalt-nickel-manganese project. Its larger significance, however, may be whether it demonstrates that African states have learned one of the hardest lessons of the commodity age: The resource beneath your feet is not the final prize. The final prize is the productive system built around it—and the recurring value that

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When Conflict Becomes an Economy The Political Economy of the Southern Cameroons Conflict: Productive Assets, Dispossession, Conflict Economies, and the Search for a Political Solution

By Martin S. Mungwa, Ph.D., F. ASCE 158 pages | 10 chapters | Coming in Mid-October 2026 Book Review/Preview By The Independentist News education desk As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Get other books by Dr. Martin Mungwa on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Book+by+Dr.martin+mungwa&i=specialty-aps&srs=121082092011&crid=U3XDQYOYVDMF&sprefix=book+by+dr.martin+mungwa%2Cspecialty-aps%2C410&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=fad4ab2ac94f8ac7c329b5bbc65349b3&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Much of the literature on Southern Cameroons has examined constitutional history,

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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS CONFLICT: Who Pays, Who Extracts Value, and Why the Crisis Endures

The question for Southern Cameroons is therefore no longer only: What caused the crisis? It is also: What systems has the crisis created? Who pays for those systems? Who benefits from them? Who controls them? And what must be dismantled economically, politically, and institutionally for peace to become more valuable than continued conflict? That is

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WHEN HISTORY DEMANDS AN ANSWER: Jamaica’s Legal Challenge to Britain and the Southern Cameroons Question

Jamaica may ultimately win its argument. It may lose it. Its petition may encounter jurisdictional or political barriers before the substantive questions are ever determined. But Jamaica has already demonstrated something important: History can be interrogated. And governments can be asked to answer for their role in it. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist

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Book Review

COMING IN DECEMBER !!!!!! WHAT REMAINS? Building Africa’s Regenerative Economy. Productive Sovereignty, Capital Circulation, and the Development Model Africa Has Been Missing

By Martin S. Mungwa, Ph.D., Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Advance Book Review, By The Independentist News education desk As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Shop with Amazon https://www.amazon.com/b?node=121082092011&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=1edb0cbd40fa50c54045001e1f1bd832&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Africa has never lacked development plans, investment programs, infrastructure projects, natural resources, or foreign partnerships. What it has often

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COMING IN OCTOBER 2026 STEAMERS EDUCATION: Reconnecting Knowledge, Character, Creativity, and Human Purpose Judith Elondo’s Eight-Pillar Framework Asks What Education Should Leave Behind

The Independentist News Education desk, Book Review Author and Inventor: Judith ElondoForeword: Professor Bridget A. TebohEditor: Martin S. Mungwa, Ph.D., F. ASCECurrent Pre-Press Length: approximately 239 pagesChapters: 10, followed by a Final Open HorizonPublisher: Elondo Legacy Press As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Its back to school. Shop from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=back+to+school&i=specialty-aps&srs=217248077011&crid=2UB3ZEVCOPJI7&sprefix=Back%2Cspecialty-aps%2C404&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=f4bb16a5b028f2a684ecb08c7b6f3953&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl What

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Commentary

AMBAZONIA AFTER THE FLAG: THE ECONOMIC TEST OF REAL INDEPENDENCE Colonial Exploitation, Productive Assets, and the Statecraft Question

The Ambazonian movement has spent years making its political case. The next stage of serious thinking requires something harder: economic architecture. Identify the productive asset. Ask who signs. Ask who pays. Ask who owns. Ask who produces. Ask who processes and adds value. Ask who controls the technology. Ask who supplies. Follow the recurring value.

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WHEN JOURNALISM REFUSES TO BOW: ARISE NEWS AND THE COURAGE TO ASK THE QUESTIONS OTHERS AVOID

Ask the government what it does not want to answer. Ask the opposition what it does not want to answer. Ask Ambazonian leaders what they do not want to answer. Ask military commanders what they do not want to answer. Ask diplomats what they do not want to answer. Ask religious leaders what they do

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THE PIPELINE WENT TO KRIBI. VICTORIA GOT THE SPEECHES: Why Ambazonia Must Build the Productive Corridors, Power the Economy, and Create the Cargo that Will Justify Its Maritime Gateway

Build owners. Build competitors. Build institutions that survive their founders. Then no politician will need to tell us that Victoria is a strategic port. The ships will tell us. The cargo will tell us. The factories will tell us. The electricity demand will tell us. The revenues will tell us. The businesses will tell us.

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