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Let the BBC report Southern Cameroons. Let France 24 report it. Let Al Jazeera report it. Let American media report it. But when they get something wrong, there should exist an Ambazonian institution credible enough to correct the record with evidence rather than outrage. That is sovereignty of mind. By Martin S. Mungwa Contributor The

For Southern Cameroons, the first debt Britain may owe is not financial. It may be the debt of historical honesty. Archbishop Sarah Mullally has now been to Cameroon. She has been to Buea. She has spoken of suffering, displacement and conflict. She has called for genuine and inclusive dialogue. By The Independentist News desk Archbishop

The question was never whether Southern Cameroons possessed every institution required for prosperity on the day of independence. The question was whether its people should have been permitted to build those institutions under a government accountable to them. Instead, the language of non-viability converted political dispossession into economic advice. Incorporation was presented as rescue. Centralization

The powerful do not need additional reassurance. The victims do not need more pageantry. Southern Cameroons needs the mask removed, the archives opened, productive assets accounted for and the constitutional question addressed without predetermined limits. Until then, every cosmetic diplomatic or pastoral visit risks becoming part of the machinery it claims to heal. By Ali

Tchiroma’s federal proposal ultimately fails because it cannot answer one question: why should Southern Cameroonians trust another federal promise from the same state that dismantled the first arrangement, centralized its institutions, militarized the political dispute, and rejected credible mediation? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News Yaounde – August 6, 2026 – The political uncertainty

Southern Cameroons must draw the correct lesson. We should expose demographic and military inequality wherever credible evidence supports it. But we must also build a future political culture in which evidence is stronger than outrage, institutions are stronger than personalities, and public authority is never captured by one region, one faction or one generation. By

Before asking Southern Cameroonians to embrace another political project emerging from Yaoundé, those seeking to lead Cameroon should first answer a more fundamental question: Why should Southern Cameroonians believe that changing the president is the same as changing the constitutional relationship? By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News Every election season in La République du

Perhaps the stars and heavenly bodies are aligned for Ambazonians. Perhaps Yaoundé’s succession uncertainty, the declining credibility of military rule, the persistence of the Southern Cameroons question, the growing demand for civilian protection, and the emerging emphasis on national readiness have created an opening that did not exist before. But history does not reward those