If India could shake off the Crown, if Ghana could break the Gold Coast chains, if Botswana could rise from protectorate poverty into stability, then Ambazonia, too, can reclaim her freedom.
By The Independentist Editorial Desk
The Colonial Divide
History shows us a painful truth: both Britain and France brutalized their colonies. Both whipped, imprisoned, and plundered. Yet, when the dust of independence settled, the outcomes diverged sharply.
Former British colonies—India, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa—emerged battered but breathing. They wrestled with corruption and coups, yes, but they also carved out space for economic autonomy, stronger institutions, and genuine democratic experiments. Their people could at least dream, and often achieve, change through the ballot box.
The French colonies, by contrast, were never truly free. They inherited puppet regimes, shackled economies tied to the CFA franc, and armies trained to serve Paris. Leaders who resisted were assassinated. Countries like Haiti, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Benin, Togo, and the Central African Republic remain today trapped in authoritarianism, stage-managed elections, and suffocating dependency.
Ambazonia’s Stolen Future
Ambazonia—the former British Southern Cameroons—should have been counted among the ranks of free British ex-colonies. Instead, Britain betrayed its trust obligations under the United Nations. No ballot box offered independence. The people were pushed into a forced “union” with French Cameroun, a state already chained to Paris.
Thus, Ambazonia inherited not the relative freedoms of Ghana or Botswana, but the suffocating grip of Françafrique. Today, Ambazonians are massacred for demanding the same rights their Nigerian and Ghanaian cousins enjoy. Our tragedy is not that we fought colonizers—it is that the colonizers’ game cheated us of independence.
The Comparative Freedom Gap
British legacy: flawed but breathing democracies, growing economies, and space for reform.
French legacy: suffocated nations, military coups, eternal dependency, and presidents-for-life.
Ambazonia’s tragedy is that though it was a British territory, it is now crushed under France’s shadow.
The Call of History
Ambazonia’s fight is not parochial—it is continental. It is part of Africa’s unfinished liberation. If India could shake off the Crown, if Ghana could break the Gold Coast chains, if Botswana could rise from protectorate poverty into stability, then Ambazonia, too, can reclaim her freedom.
Our struggle is not rebellion—it is restoration. It is the correction of a historical fraud committed in 1961. It is the demand to stand among the free nations of the world.
The Independentist Editorial Desk
