Commentary

The question was never whether Southern Cameroons possessed every institution required for prosperity on the day of independence. The question was whether its people should have been permitted to build those institutions under a government accountable to them. Instead, the language of non-viability converted political dispossession into economic advice. Incorporation was presented as rescue. Centralization

The powerful do not need additional reassurance. The victims do not need more pageantry. Southern Cameroons needs the mask removed, the archives opened, productive assets accounted for and the constitutional question addressed without predetermined limits. Until then, every cosmetic diplomatic or pastoral visit risks becoming part of the machinery it claims to heal. By Ali

Tchiroma’s federal proposal ultimately fails because it cannot answer one question: why should Southern Cameroonians trust another federal promise from the same state that dismantled the first arrangement, centralized its institutions, militarized the political dispute, and rejected credible mediation? By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-Chief, The Independentist News Yaounde – August 6, 2026 – The political uncertainty

Southern Cameroons must draw the correct lesson. We should expose demographic and military inequality wherever credible evidence supports it. But we must also build a future political culture in which evidence is stronger than outrage, institutions are stronger than personalities, and public authority is never captured by one region, one faction or one generation. By

Before asking Southern Cameroonians to embrace another political project emerging from Yaoundé, those seeking to lead Cameroon should first answer a more fundamental question: Why should Southern Cameroonians believe that changing the president is the same as changing the constitutional relationship? By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-chief The Independentist News Every election season in La République du

Perhaps the stars and heavenly bodies are aligned for Ambazonians. Perhaps Yaoundé’s succession uncertainty, the declining credibility of military rule, the persistence of the Southern Cameroons question, the growing demand for civilian protection, and the emerging emphasis on national readiness have created an opening that did not exist before. But history does not reward those

The resulting arrangement is a double colonial chokehold. Britain hides behind the visibility of France. France hides behind the formal sovereignty of La République du Cameroun. Yaoundé describes the Southern Cameroons question as an internal linguistic disagreement, thereby concealing the deeper international and constitutional history. The flags changed, but the gate remained in the same

What appears to be “marrying down” according to one measure may be a carefully chosen partnership across several forms of value. The future of marriage in the African diaspora may therefore depend less on finding a man who stands above a woman and more on finding two people capable of standing together. By Ali Dan

When government trusts the people enough to respect their rights, and the people trust government enough to protect its lawful institutions, counterintelligence ceases to be merely the hidden work of the state. It becomes a covenant between the republic and its citizens By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News Part V established the constitutional

Ambazonia must protect itself from hostile penetration, foreign manipulation, financial capture and organized deception. It must also protect the citizen from arbitrary surveillance, factional accusation and political persecution conducted in the name of national security. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-chief The Independentist News Part IV demonstrated that an informed and politically conscious population can become