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Logic, boundary treaties, and United Nations resolutions converge on a single point. 1st October 1961 marks the independence of Southern Cameroons as a distinct people and territory, entitled to freely commemorate that date. By Abdulkarim Ali contributor to The Independentist News 1st October 2026 As Amazon associate this site earns from qualifying purchases Get books
Dion Ngute came to Buea projecting confidence that time is working in Yaoundé’s favor. History will determine whether that confidence was justified. But one principle should already be clear: A political question does not acquire a natural death merely because a government declares that its armed expression eventually will. And until the political question itself
The international community should make it unmistakable now: The presence of armed fighters in cities cannot become a license for urban collective punishment. And no political narrative—whether described as counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, self-defense or restoration of public order—can place an entire civilian population outside the protection of law. By Lester MaddoxGuest ContributorThe Independentist NewsOakland, California As
A struggle that relies only on endurance risks allowing time, to become its enemy. A movement that converts endurance into disciplined political capacity changes the equation. After almost ten years, that may be the more important challenge confronting everyone who believes the Southern Cameroons question remains unresolved. By Timothy EnongeneAssociate Editor-in-ChiefThe Independentist News As Amazon
The question for Southern Cameroons is therefore no longer only: What caused the crisis? It is also: What systems has the crisis created? Who pays for those systems? Who benefits from them? Who controls them? And what must be dismantled economically, politically, and institutionally for peace to become more valuable than continued conflict? That is
For Ambazonians, this moment should reinforce the need for disciplined preparation. The Southern Cameroons question will not be resolved by waiting for Etoudi to implode. It will be advanced through unity, credible institutions, civilian protection, professional diplomacy and a political case capable of surviving any change of government in Yaoundé. By Timothy Enongene Associate Editor-in-Chief,
President Macron’s interview in Nairobi was intended as a reflection on France’s evolving relationship with Africa. But history may judge his African legacy less by his speeches and more by the contradictions left unresolved. The crisis of French influence in Africa is no longer merely military or economic. It is moral. And nowhere is that
The central question is no longer only how to manage the conflict, but whether the international community is prepared to engage with its underlying decolonisation dimension. By Ali Dan IsmaelEditor-in-Chief, The Independentist News2 May 2026 For several years, the situation in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon has been described primarily as
For Ambazonians—and for the international community observing—the responsibility now is not to react to the imagery, but to interrogate the process. Is this pathway leading toward a just resolution? Or is it engineering the conditions for a prolonged, managed conflict? By Timothy Enongene Guest Editor-in-Chief The Independentist News In moments of conflict, power does not
Political elites may debate the technicalities. Analysts may parse constitutional clauses. But the street — the marketplace, the taxi stand, the university corridor — understands power in simpler terms: Who decides? Who commands? Who can act when the system trembles? Any office that cannot answer these questions clearly will struggle to inspire confidence, no matter
