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THE MAN THEY COULDN’T SILENCE: Dr. Sako and the Battle for Ambazonian Sovereignty

Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako in traditional outfit with cabinet members in group photo. Bongo Square News with FritzMCBobe Dr. Sako joined the Interim Government (IG) of Ambazonia as an outsider, responding to personal persuasion by Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. Prior to this, he was widely known in activist circles as #Dr_Commonsense, an unapologetically bold voice, yet

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Commentary

Paul Biya: From French Mole to Africa’s Oldest Dictator, and France’s Choice for Cameroun’s 2025 Presidential Elections.

Paul Biya humbly shakes hands with his boss By Mankah Rosa Parks, Senior Investigative Correspondent. The Making of a Tyrant: From Clerk to Commander. Paul Barthélemy Biya’a bi Mvondo was not born into the rough-and-tumble world of grassroots Cameroonian politics. His rise to power wasn’t the story of a national hero, a freedom fighter, or

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Book Review

Communal Liberalism by Paul Biya, A Vision Betrayed: The Book and the Tyranny It Concealed

Reviewed by Mankah Rosa Parks, Senior Investigative Correspondent. When Communal Liberalism was first published in 1987, it was heralded as a manifesto of modern African leadership. Paul Biya, barely five years into his presidency, presented himself as a reform-minded statesman—an intellectual leader intent on reconciling state authority with citizen participation. The book promised decentralisation, good

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Letters to the Editor

The independentist news reader writes to the Editorial team.

Uchiba Nelson, Dear Editor I write to your online news publication in reaction to Barrister Felix Abgor Balla’s call on Ambazonians to register and vote in LRC elections. Agbor Balla, It Is Provocative to Use Compromised Francophone Politicians as a Call for Unity Among Ambazonians It is becoming increasingly disturbing to see individuals who once

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Book review,

Glossary on Decentralisation in Cameroon de Leopold Dine Ele AitkinsUn écran de fumée centralisateur déguisé en réforme

Par l’équipe de la revue The Independentist | Juin 2025 Introduction : un livre né de la trahisonAprès avoir rejeté le processus conduit par la Suisse, les mots d’adieu du Premier ministre colonial Joseph Dion Ngute au négociateur suisse M. Günter Bähler furent révélateurs : « La République du Cameroun cherche des partenaires internationaux pour

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Book Review

Glossary on Decentralisation in Cameroon by Leopold Dine Ele Aitkins: A Smokescreen of Centralisation Masquerading as Reform.

By The Independentist Review Team | June 2025 Introduction: A Book Born of Betrayal. After rejecting the Swiss-led process, the parting words from colonial Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute to Swiss chief negotiator Mr. Günter Bähler were telling: La République du Cameroun is looking for international partners to implement the outcome of the Major National

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News Politics Uncategorized

Arrested in Their Crib: How Babies Became Bargaining Chips in LRC’s War Against Ambazonia

Mr. Quetong Anderson the SDO Ngoketunjia By: The Independentist news Investigative Team Ngoketunjia, Southern Cameroons | June 2025 In what has become a chilling reflection of the depths to which La République du Cameroun’s colonial machinery has sunk in its war against the people of Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), two infants and their parents were recently

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Letters to the Editor

An Ambazonian self-defense analyst writes to the Independentist news editorial team.

Letter to the Editor. Dear Editor. I write to you as a fervent reader of your online news publication and a self-defense analyst of the Ambazonian revolution on the recent happenings in LRC. “Cameroon’s Presidential Song and Dance Will Not Distract Ambazonia“ As the La République du Cameroun presidential circus resumes its predictable rotation, a

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Commentary News

From Denial to Acceptance: Issa Tchiroma’s Stunning Shift on the Anglophone Conflict.

Issa Tchiroma Bakari moves from fiction to reality By Colbert Gwain — @The Muteff Factor (formerly The Colbert Factor) When Muteff village, in the Fundong Municipality of Cameroon’s North-West Province, was pressing for greater autonomy in the 1980s, one infamously noisy man, Yindo Tanghe, became its most vocal opponent. Each morning he walked to mainland

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News Politics

Peace Prospects Open in the Great Lakes Region of Africa as United States Mediates Agreement Between DRC and Rwanda

Foreign Ministers for Rwand and the DRC at the White house By Ali Dan Ismael, editor in chief. Washington, D.C. – June 2025 — A landmark peace agreement has been signed between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, under the mediation of the United States Government. On June 27, 2025, U.S. Secretary of

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