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The Silent Architect: How Sylvester Moh Tangongho Helps Power the System Holding Ambazonia Down

As long as people like Sylvester Moh Tangongho control the purse of the state, the suffering of Ambazonia will not end. The violence may become less visible, but the oppression will remain strong. By Ali Dan Ismael and Jennifer McChriston Most people learn about the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon through shocking stories of shootings, burned

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Representation Without Accountability Is Collaboration, Why the World Must Stop Treating Mbah Acha Rose as a “Reform Figure”

To the outside world: She is proof that women are empowered, that Anglophones are included, that anti-corruption mechanisms exist. To the regime: She is a shield. A prop. A signature they can point to whenever the world demands accountability. By a Member of the Ambazonian Diaspora contributor to The Independentist — Policy and Governance Desk

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Customs, Corruption, and Conflict: How a Broken System Fuels War in Cameroon

As the conflict drags on, the customs system continues to play a double role — keeping the state financially afloat while holding the population down. Reform has been promised many times, but reform threatens powerful interests. Until transparency replaces extortion — and legitimate governance replaces rule by fear — customs will remain a silent, efficient

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The Children of a Nation in Exile: Why Removing U.S. Birthright Citizenship Matters to Ambazonians

But if this executive order is upheld, children who will be born tomorrow could be stripped of citizenship, creating a new category of vulnerability and potentially a new generation without a state to belong to. By The Independentist news Desk — For Global Distribution The United States Supreme Court will soon decide a case that

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Why There Was Never a Legal Union Between British Southern Cameroons and La République du Cameroun

A union established without consent or compatibility left a structural fault line. Rather than the harmony once promised, tensions have deepened over time, leading to recurring instability and conflict. By Ali Dan Ismael editor in chief and Kemi AshuIndependentist Contributor— Legal-Historical Commentary For more than sixty years, the people of the former British Southern Cameroons

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Reclaiming the Black Narrative The Politics of Belonging, Memory, and Historical Power

Whether your ancestors: cultivated cocoa in Cameroon, ruled in Benin or Ethiopia, fought colonizers in Haiti or survived the Middle Passage in shackles, They fought for a future in which their descendants — us — would not live in chains. That collective resilience is our inheritance. By Vivian Abiedu The Independentist contributor Why Identity Remains

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Pray for Bamenda — But Do Not Pray Blind

We will continue to pray — not for the comfort of the occupier, but for the departure of the occupier. We pray for justice to resurrect. We pray for independence to dawn. We pray for a future where Bamenda breathes free. This is Crossfire Of Conscience — Truth in resistance. Clarity in crisis. By A

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Reclaiming Our Shared Story A Call for Unity Across the Black World

Unity is not about being the same. Unity is recognizing that we are branches of the same sacred tree. Wherever we stand today in Africa, the Americas, Europe, or elsewhere we are descendants of survivors and inheritors of greatness. When we come together, we are capable of transforming our future and restoring our full history.

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WHY YAOUNDE WANTED SONARA DOWN

SONARA’s destruction is not just an industrial loss.It is a symbol of how Cameroon is held hostage by a small class that thrives when the country collapses. We must break the silence, Cameroon stands at a crossroads. By Dr. Tata Fon Emmanuel The Independentist contributor. There are moments in a country’s history when the truth

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Reign of Terror: Africa’s Dark Age

Africa’s Dark Age is not about lack of potential. It is about suffocated potential. It is not about lack of talent. It is about talent being hunted and silenced. It is not the absence of light. It is the deliberate extinguishing of light. But as long as there are Africans willing to speak the truth,

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