Across Africa, the myth of French superiority has evaporated. From Niger to Gabon, Mali to Burkina Faso, the colonies are walking away from their maker. Even Francophones now whisper admiration for the Anglophone world — for its pragmatism, its law, its meritocracy.
By The Independentist Editorial Desk
The Twin Republics of Ruin
There is a reason La République du Cameroun and France resemble a mother and child — not by choice, but by DNA. Both are victims of the same Napoleonic defect: a belief that power is the natural property of those who command it, and that intelligence begins and ends at the center. France built this sickness; Cameroon inherited it.
Le Figaro recently described France as “an airplane without wings or a pilot, vegetating at the end of the runway.” But that metaphor could just as easily describe Yaoundé — a capital where ministries operate like family estates, the treasury bleeds without accountability, and a senile monarch clings to office while pretending to fly a grounded nation.
Both regimes are suffering from moral thrombosis: the blood of democracy no longer flows. France hides its paralysis in polite vocabulary — dysfunction, crisis of confidence, polarization. Cameroon masks it under dictatorship, fear, and the repression of Ambazonia. Yet the pathology is identical — a failure to evolve beyond the Napoleonic reflex of control.
Still, beneath the rot of these systems live citizens who deserve far more — the French worker exhausted by endless strikes and insecurity, the Cameroonian family struggling between tyranny and hunger. They are not the problem; they are the victims of states that worship power and despise humility.
When the Empire Implodes
What France is experiencing today — political chaos, rising crime, fiscal collapse — is the same implosion its protégés in Africa have been enduring for decades. The “civilization” Paris exported through Françafrique was not enlightenment but entropy. It taught its colonies how to wear medals of modernity while practicing the mechanics of decay.
President Emmanuel Macron’s “Choose France” summit rings hollow when his parliament is a psychiatric ward and his fourth prime minister in a year looks exhausted after a month. Paul Biya’s “Greater National Dialogue” did the same — a tragic pantomime of renewal while the country burns. Both men are Napoleon’s grandchildren, posing as visionaries while piloting states that long ago lost altitude.
Even the language of leadership is identical: lecturing tone, centralized ego, and allergic reaction to accountability. Macron blames the masses; Biya blames the Anglophones. Neither accepts that history has already moved on — that governance now belongs to those who can build consensus, not command obedience.
The Genetic Divide
France and her African replica still worship Anglo-Saxon order but can never emulate it. The difference is not racial — it is civilizational. Britain, after 1066, threw off the French yoke and birthed Common Law, Parliament, and liberty. France, meanwhile, perfected bureaucracy and worshipped the State.
The Anglosaxon builds institutions; the Napoleonic mind builds ministries. The first trusts the people; the second fears them. That is why Westminster stands while Paris stumbles, and why Buea — the former seat of the British Southern Cameroons — remains morally superior to Yaoundé’s colonial mimicry.
You can’t fuse oil with water, and you can’t graft liberty onto a system built on submission. The French tried it in England and failed. La République du Cameroun tried it in Ambazonia and collapsed into war. The problem is not geography — it is genetic. The Napoleonic strain cannot reproduce freedom.
The goal is not to imitate Britain but to learn from the discipline that allowed it to evolve — to build systems that serve people, not masters.
Africa Is Watching
Across Africa, the myth of French superiority has evaporated. From Niger to Gabon, Mali to Burkina Faso, the colonies are walking away from their maker. Even Francophones now whisper admiration for the Anglophone world — for its pragmatism, its law, its meritocracy.
France, the self-appointed tutor of Africa, now stands exposed: broke, divided, leaderless, and morally naked. And La République du Cameroun, her most obedient pupil, mirrors that collapse perfectly.
History, as always, comes full circle. The same arrogance that once marched through Algiers and Dakar now limps through Paris and Yaoundé. The same contempt that mocked British empiricism now kneels before it.
Ambazonia’s quest for freedom is not rebellion; it is re-alignment — a return to the higher civilization that values law over force, conscience over command, and liberty over l’état.
Conclusion: The End of the Napoleonic Age
The tragedy of France and La République du Cameroun is not that they failed to dominate; it is that they never learned to cooperate. They admire the Anglosaxon mind but cannot imitate its humility. They envy its success but reject its moral discipline. And so, they drift together — two airplanes without wings, circling the same decaying runway of history.
When Ambazonia insists on self-determination, it is not defiance — it is survival. Because no free people can live forever in the shadow of a civilization that has forgotten how to fly.
But there is still hope. For those willing to shed pride and rediscover conscience, the skies are wide open. The flight of freedom has no nationality — only direction.
