Southern Cameroons — known to the world as Ambazonia — regained its sovereignty on October 1st 1961, only to be illegally annexed by French Cameroon. We are simply restoring what was stolen — through law, diplomacy, and disciplined self-defense.
By The Independentist — Editorial Investigation Unit
It is one of history’s great reversals that those who once ridiculed Ambazonia’s quest for liberation now speak of linking arms with Ambazonians to confront the Yaoundé regime. In the aftermath of the so-called 2025 presidential election — a recycled coronation under France’s shadow — Issa Tchiroma’s loyalists and Maurice Kamto’s followers, who once mocked our independence movement, now call for “military resistance.”
For nearly a decade, they cheered the oppression of our people and called us secessionists. Today, they taste the same poison brewed in the palace of Etoudi. President Dr Samuel Ikome Sako has made this clear: Ambazonia is not part of French Cameroon, and our struggle is not about who rules Yaoundé. Our war is not for regime change; it is for the restoration of a nation.
Southern Cameroons — known to the world as Ambazonia — regained its sovereignty on October 1st 1961, only to be illegally annexed by French Cameroon. We are simply restoring what was stolen — through law, diplomacy, and disciplined self-defense.
The people of Ambazonia fight for liberation; French Cameroonians fight for reform. We seek to build a nation; they seek to repair a state. We walk toward Buea; they march toward Yaoundé. Our destinies cross at history’s gate but lead to different homes.
We have not forgotten the years when French Cameroonian activists insulted our dead and mocked our burned villages. We have not forgotten the complicity of journalists who called us “terrorists” while our mothers were raped and our children buried. Today, the wheel of history has turned. Those who laughed now cry the same cry for justice, realizing that no slave of France can ever be free in Cameroon.
Ambazonia will not be drawn into the internal wars of French Cameroon. We will talk peace only as equals — as we came to Foumban in 1961 — state to state, flag to flag, president to president. The failed National Dialogue, the Swiss deception, and the Canadian monologue all proved that Yaoundé cannot negotiate in good faith.
We feel the pain of ordinary French Cameroonians who now experience the brutality we have endured for years. But understand this clearly: we did not start this war to replace Biya with another Biya. We started it to free a nation — our nation — from an empire of deceit. If you wish to fight tyranny, fight it in your land. We wish you courage.
Through ashes and sacrifice, our people have stood firm. Tens of thousands have died, yet not a single inch of conviction has been surrendered. The world is beginning to see what we have always known — that freedom delayed is not freedom denied.
To those now discovering resistance, Ambazonia says: Your awakening is your journey. Ours is already underway. We salute your courage — but we walk our own path, guided by the light of 1961 and the blood of our martyrs. Our destination is Buea — and Buea alone.
The Independentist — Editorial Investigation Unit
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