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Britain, America, and the wider West should ask whether they have genuinely moved beyond judging human legitimacy through pigmentation, or whether they have merely learned to celebrate diversity while preserving older tests of who truly belongs. By Ali Dan Ismael and Timothy Enongene, The Independentist News editorial desk Get more books on racism from Amazon

Are Ambazonians becoming more organized, disciplined and economically productive? Are institutions becoming more credible than personalities? Can disagreements be managed without destroying national purpose? Are leaders becoming more accountable? Are communities being strengthened? Are young people being prepared to govern and produce? Are citizens learning to place constitutional responsibility above factional loyalty? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate

Britain was late in securing durable safeguards around the 1961 transition. It was late in responding to the consequences of centralization. It was late to the humanitarian catastrophe. Canterbury arrived after Rome had already directed the world’s attention toward Bamenda. If Britain wishes to become consequential, it must do more than arrive after everyone else.

Who accepted the completed system? Who benefits when it succeeds? Who pays when it fails? Until those questions are answered publicly, the €274 million obligation should be understood not merely as money owed to foreign companies but as a warning that Cameroon’s infrastructure, diplomacy, and postcolonial economic arrangements have converged into a national debt chokepoint.

That is the deeper meaning of the polycentric republic. It is not simply a country financed from many places. It is a country strong enough to choose among them. It is a country in which outside capital competes for access to productive opportunity instead of government begging for access to capital. It is a country

Our future should not depend on who rules the world. It should depend on whether we can build a Republic capable of working confidently with the United States and other partners while remaining master of its own productive sources, institutions and national destiny. By Martin S. Mungwa, PhD, Fellow ASCE, Contributor The Independentist News As

The Africa we should build is therefore not an Africa without nations. It is an Africa in which nations are secure enough to cooperate, sovereign enough to negotiate, democratic enough to respect their citizens, economically capable enough to retain more of the value they create, and wise enough to understand that presidents, parties, armies, colonial

History is no longer asking where we went to school. History is asking what our schooling, our faith, our prosperity, and our spirituality made us willing to do when home was burning—and what kind of human beings we are preparing to inherit Ambazonia when the fire is finally extinguished. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The

The public is entitled to answers where legitimate public interests are involved. And the future Ambazonian state is entitled to something even more important: a political culture in which evidence outranks faction and institutions outrank personalities. Those who demand answers must answer. Those who investigate must be willing to be investigated. Those who seek to

The potato test is therefore brutally simple: grow it, store it, process it, move it, finance it, sell it, and keep more of the value circulating within the productive economy. Then invite the world to the table. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News McDonald’s is not important to Ambazonia because Ambazonians urgently need