Ambazonians must learn to: analyze propaganda structures, recognize infiltration patterns, question sudden media personalities, avoid spreading unverified content, identify manipulative vocabulary. Cross-check sources, reject divisive narratives, protect morale and unity.
By The Editorial Board The Independentist
Introduction — The Battle for Ambazonia Is Also a Battle for the Mind
For eight years, Ambazonia has faced the guns of a colonial army. But alongside the military war, another conflict has intensified: the information war. While communities endure occupation and violence, the regime in Yaoundé has invested heavily in a parallel strategy: crafting false narratives, manipulating social media, co-opting influencers and deploying journalists with ambiguous loyalties. This is a sophisticated system of psychological warfare. It is not about one person. It is about a machinery designed to confuse, fragment, and weaken Ambazonia from within.
This investigative report exposes how dual citizens, digital personalities, and certain media operators have become tools of French Cameroun’s propaganda ecosystem.
First — The Regime’s New Weapon: The Soft-Face Propaganda Network
French Cameroun’s military brutality has failed to break Ambazonia. In response, Yaoundé now deploys a new class of psychological agents: journalists and online personalities who present themselves as neutral, independent, or humanitarian. Their characteristics are predictable: they hold foreign passports, they operate under the banner of “independent journalism”, they appear relatable to local populations, and repeat regime narratives with strategic consistency. These individuals are not soldiers. They are information operatives. Their mission is to reshape public perception while the occupation continues.
They speak calmly while villages burn. They call for “peace” while the military commits atrocities. They question Ambazonian legitimacy while remaining silent on regime crimes. This is not independent journalism.This is state-sponsored narrative management.
Second — The Language Patterns That Reveal Infiltration
Across hundreds of posts, broadcasts, and reports, certain linguistic fingerprints appear repeatedly. These patterns always align with the regime’s preferred framing. The most common patterns include: “Separatists”, never Ambazonians or Restoration Forces. This delegitimizes the struggle and frames Ambazonia as a fringe movement. “Crisis”, never war or genocide. This hides the scale of French Cameroun’s crimes. Both sides, never naming the state as the primary aggressor.
This creates a false moral balance between victims and perpetrators. Fighter atrocities, even when evidence points to military operations. This shifts blame from the army to the oppressed population. These patterns are not accidental. They form a coherent propaganda script.
Third — How Infiltrators Are Manufactured: Passports, Controlled Visibility, and Quiet Departures
Many operators within this ecosystem share a similar pathway: sudden access to expedited passports, rapid release after conveniently staged arrests, quiet, unexplained departures from the country, immediate elevation to foreign media spaces, polished rebranding as international correspondents, an old formula used by authoritarian governments.
They take a struggling journalist, give them controlled visibility, export them abroad, and deploy them against the opposition from a safe distance. These individuals appear independent. They are, in reality, controlled assets with obligations.
Fourth — Why Yaoundé Relies on Influencers Instead of State Media
State media in French Cameroun has lost all credibility. Ambazonians do not trust CRTV.
The diaspora does not consume regime newspapers. The regime responded by investing in digital personalities who appear: relatable, conversational, neutral, spontaneous, but whose contents follow a consistent pattern: minimizing regime crimes, amplifying alleged opposition abuses, mischaracterizing the war as a “crisis”, discouraging civil resistance, delegitimizing Ambazonian leadership. This is psychological warfare disguised as social commentary.
Fifth — The Impact on Ambazonia: Confusion, Division, and Psychological Fatigue
These infiltration networks are designed to attack the collective mind of the Ambazonian people and their objectives include: confusing the public, weakening unity, creating doubt in the struggle, amplifying negative stories, suppressing victories, promoting discouragement, fostering mistrust among activists and communities. This is a classic counter-insurgency strategy, used from Algeria to Eritrea, from South Africa to East Timor. Ambazonia is now confronting the same challenge.
Sixth — What Ambazonians Must Understand
A journalist’s danger is not measured by their tone.
It is measured by the effect of their messaging. If a so-called independent voice consistently: blames Ambazonian forces, shifts responsibility away from the military, adopts regime vocabulary, undermines pro-independence narratives, platforms pro-regime personalities and repeats talking points from Yaoundé’s playbook, then the issue is not their gender, background, or personal story. The issue is their alignment. What matters is the pattern, not the personality.
Seventh — What Must Be Done: Strengthening National Consciousness
Ambazonia’s response to psychological warfare must be strategic. We do not counter propaganda by attacking individuals. We counter it by educating the nation. Ambazonians must learn to: analyze propaganda structures, recognize infiltration patterns, question sudden media personalities, avoid spreading unverified content, identify manipulative vocabulary. Cross-check sources, reject divisive narratives, protect morale and unity.
By doing this, the infiltrators lose their power. The regime loses its psychological advantage. The people regain clarity. The information war depends on ignorance. Ambazonia must deny the enemy that advantage.
Final Analysis — The Real Enemy Is a System, Not a Single Journalist
Yaoundé wants Ambazonians to fixate on personalities.That is a distraction. The true threat is a coordinated, well-funded, multi-layered psychological operation designed to weaken the liberation struggle.Targeting one individual strengthens the system. Exposing the system disarms all its agents simultaneously.That is the purpose of this report.
Ambazonia will triumph not only by defending territory, but by defending truth. A conscious people cannot be manipulated, divided, or destroyed. This is how we win the information war. This is how we protect the struggle. This is how we safeguard the future.
The Editorial Board The Independentist
