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THE BIYA PLAYBOOK COMES HOME? As France Confronts Its Young Protesters, Southern Cameroons Offers Paris an Uncomfortable Mirror by

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

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THE TWO NNAMDIS AND THE THIRD BOX: Azikiwe, Kanu, Biafra, Southern Cameroons—and the Strategic Fear Britain May Have Seen Coming

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

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Clement Atangana Is Gone. What Did He Leave Behind for his people? What Legacy?

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

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Africa Does Not Need More Aid. It Needs an End to the Global Extractive System

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

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SEPTEMBER 30, 1966 — IN BLACK AFRICAN HISTORY: DAY BOTSWANA GAINED INDEPENDENCE

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

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FROM EXTRACTION TO REGENERATION: WHY SOUTHERN CAMEROONS MUST BREAK THE CULTURE OF LINEAR FINANCE. How Enterprise, Productive Assets, and Circular Finance Can Build Enduring Community Wealth

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

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SEPTEMBER 29, 1789 — THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY: What Ambazonia Can Learn From the Day America Put Its Army on Constitutional Footing

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

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The Unfinished Questions of 1961: What the U.N. Records Say About The Southern Cameroons

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

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IS THE WORLD LISTENING: THREE DAYS FOUR FRONTLINES, ASA ACTIONS CONTINUOUSLY LISTED

By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-ChiefThe Independentist News As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Buy your copy of Southern Cameroons 2050; Why America should care. By Martin Mungwa on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Southern+Cameroon+2050+by+Martin+mungwa&i=specialty-aps&srs=121082092011&crid=165NADKY1TYO0&sprefix=southern+cameroon+2050+by+martin+mungwa%2Cspecialty-aps%2C862&linkCode=ll2&tag=njokings-20&linkId=869031edbe3c55821adab9317208c171&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl BAMENDA – September 25, 2026 – Within the past three days, reports have circulated of Cameroonian security forces suffering casualties in Matouké-Kotto, Bafut,

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SEPTEMBER 24, 1965, THIS DAY IN HISTORY: From Equal Rights to Equal Opportunity, What Ambazonia Can Learn from America’s Affirmative-Action Experiment

America’s experience beginning on September 24, 1965 therefore offers Ambazonia neither a ready-made blueprint nor a policy to reproduce wholesale. It offers something more valuable: a long-running case study in the difficult transition from formal equality to practical opportunity—and in the continuing debate over how governments should pursue that objective fairly. By Timothy Enongene, Associate

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