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A state’s territorial integrity should not depend upon making peaceful demands for self-determination politically impossible. If Canada can debate its unity without treating every separatist as an enemy of the state, the international community should ask why meaningful democratic engagement with the Southern Cameroons question remains so elusive. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, Independentist News As

Ambazonia is not one man’s prison story. It is a national question. Before anyone declares who Yaoundé must negotiate with, Ambazonians deserve an answer to the more fundamental question: Who has the authority to determine the terms on which their future will be negotiated? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, Independentist News As Amazon associate this site

Once every grievance is treated as a threat, the distance between governing a population and controlling one can become dangerously small.Southern Cameroons has already paid an unbearable price to learn that lesson. By The Independentist News Commentary Desk As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Get books on Ambazonia’s productive Sovereignty and statecraft

One Nnamdi belonged to the generation that awakened African nationalism. Another Nnamdi belongs to a generation still contesting the territorial inheritance that followed colonialism. Between them lies Biafra. And beside Biafra lies Southern Cameroons. Those facts do not establish a conspiracy. But they establish a historical landscape that deserves far more investigation than it has

Clement Atangana is gone. Paul Biya will also go. We will all go. But the question that survives every funeral is brutally simple: What did you build when you had the power to build? That is the question LRC must now answer — not for Clement Atangana alone, but for an entire political culture. By

The twenty-first century should not be another century in which Africa exports wealth and imports development. Africa must retain more of what it earns. Process more of what it extracts. Manufacture more of what it consumes. Own more of the enterprises operating on its soil. Invest more of its savings domestically. And capture more of

Yesterday — September 30: Botswana. Today — October 1: Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia commemoration.Two neighboring dates. Two very different post-colonial histories. And two reminders that the meaning of independence is ultimately measured not only by how sovereignty begins, but by what a people build with it afterward. By Timothy Enongene, Associate Editor-in-chief The Independentist News As Amazon

The regenerative circle is therefore: CAPITAL → ENTERPRISE → PRODUCTION → PROFIT → REINVESTMENT → PHILANTHROPY → HUMAN CAPACITY → NEW ENTERPRISE → CAPITAL.Capital should circulate. Knowledge should circulate. Opportunity should circulate. Mentorship should circulate. And successful production should create the capacity for sustainable generosity. By Martin S. Mungwa, Ph.D., Fellow ASCE Co tributor The

The United States did not merely inherit soldiers. It brought those soldiers within its emerging constitutional order. That may be the most useful lesson from that day for contemporary Ambazonian nation-building discussions: The struggle to establish a country and the discipline required to govern one are not the same task. The first may create an

What happens when the United Nations supervises a people’s passage out of trusteeship, helps define the conditions under which their new political relationship will begin, and then history changes the structure that emerged from that process? Before writing off the institution, Washington should at least understand the files it helped create. For Southern Cameroons, the