Mr. BIYA and his unelected entourage now preside over little more than the Centre and South regions — a brittle heartland clinging to power through fear, patronage, and the illusion of divine right.
By Dr. Louis Mbua The Independentist Contributor
Paul Biya’s regime has long ceased to be merely corrupt and violent; it has degenerated into an openly tribal supremacist system in which nearly all key positions in government, the military, and strategic state institutions are monopolised by his narrow ethnic clique.
This deliberate concentration of power reveals not governance but dynastic ambition — a calculated attempt to transform Cameroon into a tribal monarchy disguised as a republic.
Such epic shortsightedness exposes the bankruptcy of Biya’s vision. His misguided policies of exclusion and suppression, reinforced by foreign interests that profit from Cameroon’s instability, have backfired spectacularly.
The Southern Cameroons restoration movement arose as a direct response to decades of deliberate marginalisation, cultural erasure, and gross human rights abuses. Its disengagement from Yaoundé’s authority was not an act of rebellion, but an act of sanity — the inevitable rejection of sustained madness.
Today, that same contagion of division has spread northward. Biya’s reckless politics of repression and tribal entitlement have alienated the northern populations as well. Under his rule, Cameroon has fractured into enclaves of resentment and distrust.
The president and his unelected entourage now preside over little more than the Centre and South regions — a brittle heartland clinging to power through fear, patronage, and the illusion of divine right.
What remains is not a functioning nation but a shadow of one — governed by fear, sustained by foreign complicity, and deluded by a sense of tribal supremacy.
Dr. Louis Mbua
