Editorial commentary

Framing the struggle as a liberation war collapses this legal distinction and allows the conflict to be treated as a domestic rebellion. Framing it as a war of independence situates it within international law, raising questions of self-determination, territorial status, and third-party responsibility. By Timothy Enongene The Independentistnews Guest Editor-in-Chief Language as Strategy, Not Semantics

Cameroon’s cultural diversity should be a source of strength, creativity, and development. Under Biya, it has been turned into a weapon. And when diversity becomes a weapon, blood inevitably follows. History will not judge this kindly. By Mubun James The Independentistnews contributor A Crime That Demands More Than Tears I condemn, without reservation, the recent

Let it therefore be said plainly: Cameroon’s elite bargains are about survival of a regime. Ambazonia’s struggle is about the dignity of a people. We are not asking to be accommodated.We are not negotiating for seats at someone else’s table. We are asserting a right that predates every political deal now being whispered in Yaoundé.

The lesson is simple and brutal: whether you fight or do not fight, whether you support or reject the Ambazonian struggle, the Biya regime considers you an enemy. If you are fortunate, they will beat or maim you. If you are not, they will kill you. By The Independentistnews editorial desk Our people must understand

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