Commentary

Trump has reopened that debate. His challenge is to prove that America can reduce the cost of empire, resist the doctrine of extraction and rebuild productive power without sacrificing public credit, institutional stability or the alliances that support its global influence.Tariffs can open the door to industrial renewal.Only investment, knowledge, fiscal discipline and enduring institutions

Political freedom opens the door. Productive power gives the nation strength. Public credit gives it credibility. Enduring institutions ensure that the Republic remains standing long after its founders have passed from the scene. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-chief The Independentist News Alexander Hamilton remains relevant to Ambazonia not because of the personal secrets, political rivalries

Saudi Arabia learned that Western engagement could be negotiated and gradually transformed. Iran learned that foreign economic control could become political domination. Ambazonia should learn from both. From Saudi Arabia, it should learn how to bargain. From Iran, it should learn why the ability to resist remains essential. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist Saudi

The final whistle will end the match. It will not end the historical questions awakened by it. In 1982, Britain showed that no territory is too small when national interest makes it important. In 2026, the uncertainty surrounding NATO and American support shows that no alliance is permanent when interests change. Argentina shows that a

If we understand the playbook, we can defeat it. If we refuse manufactured rivalries, we can build trust. If we discipline our ambitions, we can build institutions. If we place the future above personal position, we can transform liberation energy into national power. Yaoundé survives by division. Ambazonia must rise through unity, maturity, and strategic

Ambazonia is aspirational — a name that points to what some of us hope to build. Anglophone is fictional — a name that describes no country, no territory, no people, only a colonial school report. The Southern Cameroons is real. It has a map. It has a history. It has a capital, a coastline, a

The old British Empire believed ships, trade, finance, colonies, ceremony, language, and monarchy could sustain greatness forever. But when the colonies left and the imperial map disappeared, Britain was forced to live on memory. America built power into a continent. China and Russia continue to display scale as strength. India, once ruled, now rises with

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson—were not decorative participants in American space travel. They were central to the mathematical and engineering work that helped make it possible. They calculated. They verified. They solved. They carried the discipline of numbers into one of the most dangerous and ambitious technological projects in human history. By Ali

The old empire extracted land, crops, labor, and minerals. The new empire extracts doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers, scientists, coders, technicians, and thinkers. The old empire loaded ships. The new empire issues visas. The old empire built plantations. The new empire builds professional pathways. The old empire took raw materials. The new empire takes trained minds.

Britain wants the benefits of empire’s diversity without fully confronting empire’s racial hierarchy. It wants Commonwealth loyalty without Commonwealth justice. It wants historical prestige without historical responsibility. It wants the smile without surrendering the weapon. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-chief The Independentist News Britain’s crisis of identity is not only diplomatic. It is also racial,