Across the Sahel, across West Africa, across the Francophone Africa, the French are leaving; their influence is disintegrating. Nations expelling French troops, currencies reclaimed resources nationalized, youth rejecting colonial illusions. The African continent is breaking free from the last European empire still pretending to exist. And this is dangerous. Empires become most violent when they are dying.
By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief
INTRODUCTION: The Quiet People France Wanted, The Nation Ambazonia Became.
In every corner of the world, nations earn their place through resistance, identity, and self-definition. Ambazonia’s tragedy, and its awakening, lie in the fact that we were trained for decades to be everything a colonial power loves: polite, peaceful, restrained, forgiving, hopeful even when abandoned.
This cultivated docility served La République du Cameroun and its French handlers perfectly. It turned a proud people into second-class subjects within a union that was neither legal nor consensual. But the deeper truth is that Ambazonia’s suffering is not accidental, not administrative, not the result of isolated policy failures. It is the product of a carefully engineered system, born in Paris in the late nineteen-fifties, designed to preserve French global relevance through the subjugation of Black nations. And today, that system is collapsing under its own contradictions.
This investigation exposes how the Fifth Republic was constructed, why Ambazonia became its target, and how our leadership under Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako has positioned us to survive the empire’s fall.
PART ONE
The Fifth Republic: A Constitution Written to Govern Africa, Not France
When Charles de Gaulle returned to power, he did not draft a constitution for a modern democracy. He drafted an escape hatch from global irrelevance. France was humiliated in Europe by Hitler’s blitz.
Humiliated in Asia at Dien Bien Phu. Humiliated in the Caribbean, the Americas, and by the Black republic of Haiti. Instead of learning, France doubled down on empire.
The Fifth Republic was designed to: centralize executive power, shield French foreign policy from public scrutiny, maintain a militarized global network, preserve influence over former colonies through covert, economic, and political controls. The document looks French, reads French, and cites French law, but it is functionally a colonial command center for a post-colonial world.
Its driving assumption is simple: The stability of France requires the instability and dependency of Africa. Ambazonia entered this architecture as an expendable province within a larger imperial design.
PART TWO
The Racial DNA of the French State: A Global Trail of Defeats No Lessons Could Cure
To understand why Ambazonia was treated as colonial spoils, we must examine France’s global record, a record soaked in arrogance and failure.
Haiti: The First Black Republic That Broke French Supremacy. France lost Haiti not to a European army but to enslaved Africans who refused to remain property. Humiliated, France responded with financial extortion so severe that it crippled Haiti for more than a century. Yet even this brutality could not resurrect French prestige.
North and South America: An Empire Dissolving at the Edges. France’s holdings in the Americas crumbled under British, Spanish, and rising American influence: the loss of Canada, the collapse of French Louisiana, the disintegration of Caribbean possessions, the expulsion from South American enclaves. These defeats revealed a pattern: France could not maintain distant colonies without breaking them.
Indochina: The Empire Dies in Asia. At Dien Bien Phu, France suffered one of its greatest military humiliations. The Vietnamese, colonized rice farmers with no air power, broke the French military spine. France left Indochina in disgrace, replaced by nations with strategic vision.
Africa: France’s Last Delusion. After being expelled from three continents, France returned to the one region it believed would never resist: Black Africa. Here, it built Françafrique, a shadow empire of puppet presidents, rigged elections, currency theft, resource extraction, and covert operations. La République du Cameroun was the model student of this imperial architecture, and Ambazonia became its victim.
PART THREE
Ambazonia and the Machinery of Subjugation
Ambazonia was not annexed for unity. It was annexed for utility. To Paris, Ambazonia offered: English-speaking human capital, oil revenues, a strategic Atlantic coastline, a buffer against Nigeria, a population trained for order and discipline. It was a colonial dream: a people too dignified to rebel quickly, too polite to confront deception, too trusting to detect betrayal.
Ambazonians believed unity could work. Paris and Yaoundé believed Ambazonia could be silenced. The plan was brutal in its efficiency: erode the common law system, dilute the school system, flood institutions with Francophone operatives, marginalize Ambazonians in politics, siphon resources to Yaoundé, criminalize dissent, and rewrite history to erase our legitimacy. It worked for decades, not because the plan was clever, but because Ambazonians were patient. That patience ended when the people finally saw the truth.
PART FOUR
The Ambazonian Awakening: When Silence Became More Dangerous Than Resistance
The uprising that erupted from lawyers’ strikes and teachers’ protests was not a moment. It was a national awakening. Ambazonians had realized: unity was fake, federalism was a trap, assimilation was the objective, silence was complicity, culture was under assault, identity was at risk and that, survival required resistance. The people stood. And when the state responded with massacres, villages burned, and genocide, the struggle transformed from reform to restoration.
PART FIVE
Where France Expected Collapse, Ambazonia Built a State.
France’s colonial strategy depends on African movements collapsing under their own chaos.
But Ambazonia’s leadership refused to play that script. Under Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako, Ambazonia took an unexpected path: diplomatic engagement, international legal action, institutional stabilization, humanitarian coordination, diaspora mobilization, governance reform and strategic communications.
Where others chased power, he chased legitimacy.
Where others flamed division, he held the structures together. Where others fought to be seen, he fought to be effective. The survival of the Ambazonian state project, through internal sabotage, external aggression, and colonial infiltration, is not accidental. It is leadership.
PART SIX
France’s Empire Is Collapsing — Ambazonia Must Not Fall With It
Across the Sahel, across West Africa, across the Francophone Africa, the French are leaving; their influence is disintegrating. Nations expelling French troops, currencies reclaimed resources nationalized, youth rejecting colonial illusions. The African continent is breaking free from the last European empire still pretending to exist. And this is dangerous. Empires become most violent when they are dying. Ambazonia is now the frontline of France’s last African fortress, its last guaranteed zone through Yaoundé. But Ambazonia will not be the final sacrifice of a collapsing empire. Not this time.
CONCLUSION
From Subjugation to Self-Definition: Ambazonia’s Destiny Is No Longer For Sale. Ambazonia is not a region. Not a minority. Not a cultural annex. Not a historical oversight. Ambazonia is a nation, recognized by its history, its international agreements, its institutions, its identity, and the resilience of its people.
France constructed a system where African leaders serve Paris. Cameroun embraced that system.
Ambazonia rejects it. Our struggle is not born from hatred. It is born from necessity. Not fueled by bitterness, but by truth. Not shaped by revenge, but by survival.
The world is witnessing the fall of the last European empire in Black Africa. Ambazonia stands ready, not as a victim, not as a province, but as a nation reborn through struggle, discipline, and leadership. The era of docility is gone. The era of self-definition has begun, and history will not remember the obedient. It will remember the determined.
Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief
