Paul Bartholomew Biya Mvondo — The French-Christened Monarch in Torn ClothesThe Louis XIV Complex

Paul Biya: dares to lecture about tribalism. This from the very man who divided Cameroon along ethnic lines, entrenched nepotism, and used ethnicity as a weapon to rule.

By The Independentist editorial desk

Paul Biya has all the trappings of a monarch, styled in the shadow of Louis XIV. His CPDM party colours are embroidered in fire, echoing the flaming emblems of absolutism. Yet unlike the Sun King, Biya rules without genius, vision, or statecraft. He mistakes ritual for power, and his empty grandeur for legitimacy.

Chantal as Marie Antoinette

By his side stands Chantal Biya, the African replica of Marie Antoinette. Conceited in her sense of beauty, she parades like royalty while her past remains a whispered scandal. The man many in Ambazonia believe was her real husband — a Bafut taximan who fathered her twins — mysteriously disappeared. Recast as First Lady, she embodies the grotesque mismatch between vanity and the suffering of the people, much like Antoinette before the French Revolution.

A Trail of Vengeance

Handicapped and inferior in public life, Biya has spent his career driven by vengeance. Anyone who dared to demean him, publicly or privately, eventually faced his wrath. His past leaves a trail of bodies — ministers, opponents, rivals — eliminated under mysterious circumstances, often with the silent blessing of French intelligence. This is not leadership. It is vendetta disguised as governance.

The Irony of Tribalism

And yet today, Biya dares to lecture about tribalism. This from the very man who divided Cameroon along ethnic lines, entrenched nepotism, and used ethnicity as a weapon of rule. To hear Biya speak of unity is to hear a pyromaniac preach about fire safety.

The Fraud of Peace

After fraudulently securing Cameroon’s admission to the Commonwealth, Biya branded himself “a man of peace.” Among his Western benefactors, this image is laughable. They see him for what he is: a smiling puppet, docile and predictable, ignorant yet useful. To them, he is the best African leader to work with — not because of strength, but because of weakness.

Why We Must Resist

For Ambazonians, Paul Biya is more than a dictator — he is the embodiment of the fraud that shackles our nation. His monarchy of lies, his French christening, his blood-soaked legacy, all make clear one truth: our freedom will not be handed to us. It must be fought for, to the last man standing.

The Independentist editorial desk