Algeria has lit the fire. Now Africa must face the truth it has feared for 63 years. Ambazonia must be heard. Ambazonia must be acknowledged. Ambazonia must be restored.
By The Independentist Political Desk
Africa is finally gathering the courage to confront the cancer that has eaten its dignity for more than a century — colonialism, annexation, racial domination, plunder disguised as partnership, and genocide masked as “national unity.”
But as Algeria opens its doors to the world for the international conference on the crimes of colonialism in Africa, one truth rises above the diplomatic noise: Africa cannot speak honestly about colonial crimes without speaking about Ambazonia. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Because Ambazonia is not a marginal conflict on the edge of the map. Ambazonia is the most legally documented, most historically clear, and most brutally executed colonial crime still active on the African continent. And no conference on colonial injustice has meaning if it tiptoes around the genocide we live with every single day.
The colonial crime Africa pretends not to see
While ministers, jurists, historians and academics gather in Algiers, Ambazonia stands as Africa’s unresolved decolonization wound, still bleeding from: a blocked UN decolonization process, a union that never legally existed, an armed occupation that began in 1961, an illegal abolition of the so-called federation, a unilateral name change in 1984 confirming annexation, a system of linguistic apartheid, a genocide enabled by France and executed by Yaoundé. This is not a political crisis. This is not a rebellion. This is the continuation of colonialism by an African state acting as the successor of France’s imperial strategy.
Yaoundé inherited the colonial whip — and never stopped using it.
The Algeria conference changes the game, For the first time in decades, Africa is openly discussing: colonial borders, historical reparations, stolen lands, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, state-backed ethnic oppression, apartheid systems imposed after independence. Exactly the crimes Ambazonia lives through daily.
The algiers declaration seeks: codification of colonial crimes, recognition of historical injustices, reparations, restitution of cultural heritage, preservation of collective African memory, Ambazonia belongs in each of these categories — not symbolically, not emotionally, but legally and historically.
If the conference is serious, Ambazonia must be front and center. The colonial accomplice and the colonial architect. Let us stop the continental hypocrisy. France is the architect of Ambazonia’s tragedy. La république du Cameroun is the executor. France designed the annexation. France armed the dictatorship. France trained the killers. France provided diplomatic cover. France benefits from Ambazonian land, oil, timber, agriculture and coastline. France continues to shape Cameroon’s military, finances, currency and intelligence.
Yaoundé is merely the local agent — a colonial subcontractor wearing a black skin over a French imperial skeleton. This is not independence. This is outsourcing of oppression.
Africa’s moral test
The Algeria conference has created a moral mirror for African leaders. Now they must decide: Will they condemn colonial crimes in the abstract — while ignoring the largest active colonial crime in Africa today? Will they chant slogans about “African dignity” — while Ambazonian villages burn under francophone command? Will they honor Algeria’s anti-colonial legacy — while protecting France’s neo-colonial interests? History has exposed them before. History will expose them again.
What the algiers declaration must say if Africa is honest
A credible declaration must affirm: Colonial annexation is a crime against humanity. – Southern Cameroons was illegally annexed in 1961. – France bears long-term responsibility for the ongoing atrocities.- La république du Cameroun must face international inquiry. – Reparations are due to the people of Ambazonia. – UNGA Resolution 1608 must be reopened for corrective action. – Unfinished decolonization must not be buried under AU bureaucracy. Anything less is cowardice. Ambazonia is the continent’s final judgment, Africa failed Western Sahara. Africa failed Biafra. Africa failed Eritrea until Eritrea forced its own destiny. Africa failed Darfur. Africa failed the Congo countless times. Will Africa fail Ambazonia too? Or will Algeria’s bold move finally awaken the continent to the truth.
The Ambazonian struggle is not separatism — it is the completion of Africa’s longest-abandoned decolonization process. If Africa wants to heal its colonial wounds, it must begin where the wound is still open, fresh and bleeding. In Ambazonia. Because Ambazonia is not an inconvenience. Ambazonia is not a political irritation. Ambazonia is the unfinished chapter of African independence — the chapter that determines whether Africa stands for justice or hides behind the shadows of its former masters.
Algeria has lit the fire. Now Africa must face the truth it has feared for 63 years. Ambazonia must be heard. Ambazonia must be acknowledged. Ambazonia must be restored.
The Independentist Political Desk
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