Editorial commentary

If an author uses the term Anglophone, he must define exactly who he means. Is he referring to English-speaking populations inside Cameroon, Anglophones globally, or Ambazonians specifically? These are not interchangeable categories. Treating them as such is not stylistic choice; it is analytical failure. By Mankah Rosa Parks There is a quiet but fatal mistake

When French workers revolt, it is called democracy.When Africans protest, it is called instability. France raises retirement ages at home under police protection, but defends gerontocracy abroad. By The Independentistnews editorial desk France lectures. France prescribes. France supervises. But France itself is wobbling. A country where trains stop, streets burn, pensions collapse, youth wait, debt

Cameroon may still control territory by force. It may still benefit from international inertia. But legitimacy cannot be maintained at gunpoint. A government that wages war on civilians forfeits the moral and legal basis to rule them. In Southern Cameroons, the crisis is no longer about reform—it is about whether a people can be governed

Pan-African reparations are not only about repairing the past. They are about ending injustice where it still lives. Ambazonia’s case reminds the world that decolonization delayed is justice denied, and that reparations without political truth remain incomplete. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief Executive Framing The contemporary Pan-African reparations movement—revitalized through diaspora summits, continental dialogues, and

The political class, sensing the ground give way beneath them, has reached for an old reflex: internal purges instead of structural reform. Blame prosecutors. Blame ministers. Blame immigrants. Blame the opposition. Blame anyone—except the system itself. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief France is discovering—too late—that empires do not collapse with a bang. They rot, then

A country that once dictated constitutions abroad is now begging for emergency laws just to keep spending. Parliament is paralysed. Governments fall one after another. Deficits explode. Investors watch nervously. This is what decline looks like. By Ali Dan Ismael Editor-in-Chief France is entering a new year without a budget. No plan. No agreement. No

Across towns and villages in Southern Cameroons, the same things happen repeatedly. Homes are burned. Villages are raided. Civilians are killed. People disappear after arrest. Families flee into the bush. Children stop going to school. These are not isolated events. They follow the same script in different places, at different times, with the same outcomes.

Without African raw materials, cheap labor, captive markets, and obedient elites, France would not be a global power. No uranium from Niger. No oil contracts. No logistics monopolies. No military bases. No leverage. By Ali Dan Ismael and Kemi Ashu The lie is finished. Let us stop pretending. France is not losing influence in Africa

Many of the loudest distractors are not confused; they are displaced. Institutions ended shortcuts. Process replaced privilege. Governance crowded out spectacle. Charisma could be negotiated.Institutions cannot. So talks are sabotaged, efforts mislabeled, and confusion recycled—often to the benefit of a regime that thrives on disorder. By The Independentist Political Desk Since 2018, one reality has

Placed side by side, the pattern is unmistakable.Kennedy offered hope. Clinton demonstrated the deadly cost of Western silence. Bush delivered survival. Obama offered representation.Trump exposed transactional reality. Yet none delivered African sovereignty. Africa will not be redeemed by who rises in the West, but by what Africa builds at home. By the Independentist Political Desk