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Africa is entering a new geopolitical era. The age of automatic French influence is ending. A more competitive, multipolar order is emerging. For France, this transition represents a profound challenge. For Africa, it represents an opportunity. The question is whether Paris will adapt to this new reality or continue defending structures that belong to a
History suggests that nations which fail to adapt eventually lose the influence they seek to preserve. Across Africa, that process is already underway. And nowhere is that lesson more visible than in the growing distance between France and the very continent it once claimed to guide. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News For generations,
France has finally acknowledged one chapter of its colonial history. The question now is whether the international community possesses the courage to examine the others. History suggests that eventually it will have no choice. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News For nearly two centuries after France officially abolished slavery, one of the most
The Yaoundé doves incident will likely be remembered not because of the Archbishop’s speech, but because of what happened after the speech ended. Political systems survive on carefully controlled images. But occasionally reality interrupts the performance. By Timothy Enongene Associate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News When Political Theatre Meets Reality There are moments in history when
The tragedy of extractive governance is that it eventually destroys the state itself. The same “Chop Broke Pot” mentality once used against Ambazonia is now becoming a burden around the neck of the entire Cameroonian system: collapsing public trust,youth hopelessness, economic stagnation, institutional paralysis, corruption, and centralized dependency. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News
The twilight of a political era always creates uncertainty. But uncertainty also creates possibility. For Ambazonia, the central challenge is no longer simply surviving a conflict. It is demonstrating readiness for a future. A future built not only on resistance, but on governance. Not only on grievance, but on institutional vision. Not only on historical
France acted according to French interests. Britain acted according to British interests. That is how states behave. The lesson for Ambazonia is therefore not bitterness alone, but strategic maturity. No nation survives long-term through foreign sympathy alone. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The roots of the Ambazonian crisis are not merely local. They
Today, the Philipson Report remains preserved within the The National Archives under reference CO 554/1602. More than 300 pages long, it survives as one of the most politically explosive colonial-era documents relating to the Southern Cameroons question. Not because it contains radical ideology. Not because it advocates separatism. But because it reveals something far more
The great geopolitical reckoning now underway may ultimately determine not only the future of London, Washington, Canada, Greenland, or the Strait of Hormuz. It may also determine whether the twenty-first century continues preserving old imperial financial architectures — or finally opens space for new sovereignties to emerge. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News The
DID FRANCE’S SHADOW EMPIRE HELP DESTROY THE SDF?
The rise and decline of the SDF cannot be understood without acknowledging the world in which it was forced to compete. That world was never level. And that may be the most important lesson of all. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News When the history of modern Cameroon is finally written without fear, one