The High Military Command for the Restoration of Order has seized power in Guinea Bissau, suspended the electoral process, closed borders, and detained the president. The pattern is familiar. A disputed election. A tired electorate. A compromised elite. A presidential guard turning against the very president it is meant to protect.
By The Independentist Political Desk
THE EMPIRE IS DYING IN FULL VIEW
France is losing Africa. The collapse is fast, public, and irreversible. Macron’s dream of resurrecting the old Gaullist presidential monarchy has collapsed completely. The Sahel has rejected it. Central Africa is rejecting it. The Atlantic coast is now joining the revolt. Guinea Bissau’s sudden military takeover is not an isolated event. It belongs to a deeper, continental earthquake. The age of Françafrique is over.
GUINEA BISSAU JOINS THE REVOLT AGAINST OLD IMPERIALISM
The High Military Command for the Restoration of Order has seized power in Guinea Bissau, suspended the electoral process, closed borders, and detained the president. The pattern is familiar. A disputed election. A tired electorate. A compromised elite. A presidential guard turning against the very president it is meant to protect.
This time, the fallout weakens France, not strengthens it. Coups that once produced Paris friendly regimes now remove Paris from the equation entirely. What has collapsed in Bissau is not merely a government. It is the illusion of French guardianship.
MACRON’S GAULLIST DREAM HAS FAILED
Macron believed he could revive de Gaulle’s model:
A strong French presidency, backed by a chain of dependent African states. Economic dependency through the CFA system. French speaking elites serving as diplomatic satellites. Presidential guards trained to serve foreign interests. But the continent has outgrown the illusion. Mali rejected it. Burkina Faso rejected it. Niger rejected it. Senegal rejected it. Guinea Bissau has now stepped outside the script entirely.
France’s attempt to reinvent itself through English speaking or anglophile surrogates, such as Barrister Kom in Cameroon, has also failed. African nations now read through the theatre. The Gaullist vision is gone. The continent has moved on.
AMERICA CAN NO LONGER DEPEND ON FRANCE TO PROTECT ITS INTERESTS
For decades, the United States outsourced portions of its Africa policy to France. Washington expected Paris to stabilize the Sahel, contain extremist groups, manage regional crises, and prevent Russian or Chinese influence from expanding. That model has disintegrated.
France cannot defend its own interests, let alone America’s. The Sahel expelled French forces. French backed governments have collapsed. Niger tore up military agreements with Paris. Mali removed the French military presence completely. Burkina Faso now speaks openly of sovereignty without foreign tutelage.
France is not a reliable partner. This is a fading actor. America must now face a new reality. The old reliance on France is gone. Africa is no longer a French sphere. The geopolitical map has shifted. And Ambazonia must understand this shift and position itself accordingly.
FRANCE MAY STUMBLE INTO A CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA
As France loses Africa, it grows increasingly desperate to prove relevance on the world stage.
With its African empire collapsing, Paris may attempt to project military power elsewhere to show that it still matters. Europe’s confrontation with Russia provides a dangerous stage. France may overextend itself. It may escalate tensions. It may attempt a show of force that neither its economy nor its military can sustain.
An overstretched France, losing influence abroad and polarised at home, is a country drifting toward strategic exhaustion. It is a nation fighting to be seen, not a nation shaping events. The end is near for the old Gaullist worldview. And the fall of Guinea Bissau’s government is simply another sign that Paris no longer sets the direction of African politics.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AMBAZONIA
Ambazonia stands at the crossroads of a collapsing empire. The French designed system that swallowed Southern Cameroons is decaying. The façade of unity, stability, and French guided order is gone. Yaoundé has lost legitimacy. The francophone corridor is cracking. French backed narratives cannot hold.
Ambazonia has three urgent opportunities:
First, to internationalize its struggle as part of the broader continental liberation wave. Second, to expose France’s ongoing manipulation through anglophone surrogates and engineered narratives. Third, to prepare a constitutional and diplomatic alternative as French Cameroun slides into crisis. Ambazonia must not be a spectator. Ambazonia must be a participant. Ambazonia must be a decisive actor.
THE END OF THE GAULLIST WORLDVIEW
The world that swallowed Ambazonia is dying. The illusion that France controls Africa is over. The belief that Paris can police the continent has collapsed. The old reliance the United States placed on France is no longer viable. The desperation driving France toward risky confrontations is now visible. The Guinea Bissau coup is only one sign among many. History is turning. The continent is rising. The empire is falling. And Ambazonia must rise with the new tide of African sovereignty.
The Independentist political desk
