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Today, from Senegal to Cameroon, nearly two hundred million Africans still use a currency designed in France, guaranteed by France, and historically supervised with French approval. This is not independence. It is rebranded domination. By Kemi Ashu, Mankah Rosa Parks, and Kfusalu Bochong Africa’s present condition did not begin with poor leadership or bad policy.
In a tone of total hope, in his address to his people in the end of year 2025, Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako, reveals a promising year for the freedom and Independence of the Ambazonian people in 2026,. Here is Dr. Sako’s full end of year address to the people of the former Bristish southern cameroons.
When a regime ignores advice, tightens civic space, mismanages succession, and then insists it is “indispensable,” it’s like a driver removing the brakes and boasting that the car is “too important to crash.” The road does not negotiate with pride. By AKO AYA The Independentistnews contributor Myth #1: “Cameroon guarantees Gulf of Guinea security” Reality:
That single fact strips French Cameroun’s leadership naked. It exposes an army fluent in repression but illiterate in legitimacy; officers adept at destruction yet incapable of victory. If training meant competence, this war would have ended years ago. If French tutelage worked, Ambazonia would not still stand. But it does. And that endurance is the
Let it therefore be said plainly: Cameroon’s elite bargains are about survival of a regime. Ambazonia’s struggle is about the dignity of a people. We are not asking to be accommodated.We are not negotiating for seats at someone else’s table. We are asserting a right that predates every political deal now being whispered in Yaoundé.
Nowhere was this more evident than in French Cameroun. French Cameroun was not a continuation of German Kamerun. It was a French post-war construction, headquartered in Yaoundé, administered through French military logic, and governed by officers shaped by wartime humiliation. By Kfusalu Bochong and Ali Dan Ismael One of the least discussed truths of French
“Re-unification” is not history. It is camouflage. It was designed to blur trusteeship law, erase British Southern Cameroons’ legal personality, and retrofit legitimacy onto a political takeover that never received the people’s consent. By Kemi Ashu and Mankah Rosa Parks One of the most enduring falsehoods in Central African politics is the claim that Southern
Names confer recognition. When the state refuses to adopt the language through which people understand their suffering, it sends a clear message: your reality does not count. That denial has consequences. By Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor (formerly The Colbert Factor) How the Government of Cameroon Can Begin Ending a Senseless Conflict by Appropriating
Patriotism for Sale: When the Flag Becomes a Cover for Theft
Such systems thrive where loyalty to party or ethnic bloc outweighs loyalty to principle, and where supporters excuse corruption not because they doubt it exists, but because it benefits “their side.” By M. C. Folo The Indepenedentistnews contributor Across much of Africa’s political landscape, patriotism has been stripped of its meaning. It no longer serves