ANCHOR-one: 01/10/61: The now sovereign British Southern Cameroon and the Republic of Cameroon formed a Union. This union according to the UN Resolution 1608 (XV) GAOR mandated entity called “THE TWO ALTERNATIVES”, was supposed to be called “Federal United Cameroon Republics”, nevertheless, ended simply been called FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON. 

NOTE: This apparently innocuous substitution was no mistake! It was a deliberate act of sabotage of the “union” which by operation of the law was to be known as “Federal United Cameroons Republics”. This is what our people went to the polls on February 11, 1961 and voted for.

* Does anyone hear the appellation “Federation” associated with the name Cameroon?

* Does anyone hear of the word “united’ associated with the name Cameroon?

* Do you hear the word “republics” (emphasis on ‘s’) associated with the name Cameroon?

* Maybe you do not take notice! But in the real world we live in --the one where identity matters: the one where the law matters—how you call yourself, and by extension, your country matters! Below are name changes that were designed to cement the French Cameroon’s malicious plot of annexation and assimilation of what used to be called until 1984 as the Southern Cameroons!

* 1961-1972: Federal Republic of Cameroon

* 1972-1976: United Republic of Cameroon

* 1976-1980: United Democratic Republic of Cameroon

* 1980- 1984: United Republic of Cameroon

* 1984- Current: Republic of Cameroon

* ANCHOR-two: 02/01/1984: On February 1, 1984 the defunct Republic of Cameroon was resurrected following the enactment of Restoration Law 84/01 by the Cameroon Union then called United Republic of Cameroon. By operation of international law on the Creation and Extinction of States British Southern Cameroon and Republic of Cameroon became extinct President Paul Biya and his clique of insatiable kleptomaniacs explained to our servile Anglophones representatives that this was just a change of name . These representatives and everyone, including our best lawyers went handclapping hallelujah in agreement with Biya to this day. According to international law the resuscitation of the Republic of Cameroon on February 1, 1984 which had been extinct since January 1, 1961, constitutes the dissolution of the 1961 union that had rendered both this Republic of Cameroon and the Southern Cameroons extinct.

According to the international laws of creation and extinction of states, the Restoration Law legally rendered the two countries as sovereign and independent of each other as they were before January 1, 1961. EMPHASIS must be on the element of “sovereign’ and ‘independent” of ‘each other’! While it is clear that while the dominant French Cameroonians took good care of their best interest as they returned to their pre-federation status called “Republic of Cameroon”, the politically drifting minority of the now extinct federation (the so called Southern Cameroonians) failed to identify what must be their next step. Their experiences as victim of Cameroon’s annexationist and assimilationist schemes masquerading as “benign constitutional changes” should have alerted them to stay clear of the name ‘SOUTHERN CAMEROONS! Even worse was the fact that the entire “Anglophones political representative” was totally unaware of the true intention of the Restoration Law 84/01: which was to WIPE-OUT any trace of the other sovereign state that made up the Cameroon Federation –the ‘Southern Cameroons”! THE ETERNAL PROBLEM! There is this slave mentality inferiority complex that seems to dictates that our country must continue to be called “Southern Cameroon”! The a question which has never been answered is this: whose best self-interest does calling our country “Southern Cameroons” and calling ourselves ‘Southern Cameroonians’ serve? In the current geo-political reality, which we can afford to ignore at our own peril, the appellation “Southern Cameroons” is simply the geographical expression identifying the southern region of the Republic of Cameroon --the only country known in the world as Cameroon) THE LOGIC OF A TIMELY SOLUTION Fortunately our country, ex-British Southern Cameroon, is located in the zone of Ambas Bay. 

The pre-meditated strategy of using this native root name as a geographical expression of the hinterland of AMBAS is why the name “Ambazonia” identifies our country so neatly. This name AMBAZONIA was identified as the new name of our country in the document ‘NEW SOCIAL ORDER”. The timely document calling for renegotiation of a federal constitution following the recent dissolution of the old one by Restoration Law 84/01. The name AMBAZONIA as a consequence of operation of the law is the successor state of the now defunct Southern Cameroons Whoever quarrels with this may not know what is truly stake here and is urged to learn the facts of sovereignty politics. Whoever continues to quarrel with this logic after being made to understand the motivations of its originators would invariably find themselves (1) either replicating the same thing (coming up with another name such as AMBAZaNIA) or worse, (2) be compelled by the natural accusation of mimicking Ambazonia, drift even further from our desired universe of coherence. In other words, unless these “chronic-fault-finders” clearly adopt the other known strategy for attaining independence (the still to be executed conflict model) their alternatives will tantamount to “fishing expeditions” in the seas of incoherence! LEGAL PROCESS FOR HEAD OF STATE The Proto-Ambazonians team {Dr. Bernard Fonlon assisted by Fon Gorji-Dinka were their spokesmen) that coined the word AMBAZONIA strategized the idea of turning the 1985 Bamenda CNU Congress into a constitutional review conference wherein should be discussed a new federal constitution. This because the nucleus of the Ambazonian Restoration Council. 

Dr. Fonlon who originally lead the ARC asked Fon Dinka to become the leader so as to respond to “legal” inquiries appropriately, since our case was strictly one of the interpretations of the Cameroon Restoration Law 84/01 and its legal implication in international law. PROCLAMATION It became necessary to make a Proclamation formalizing the Restoration of the independence of ex- British Southern Cameroon with its geographical identity Ambazonia. In October 10, 1990 the Proclamation formalizing the Republic of Ambazonia was filed at the United Nations. Restoration means every constitutional set up in Buea before January 1, 1961 was restored except that an “Ambazonian indigene” had to replace an English woman, the Queen Elizabeth, as the titular Ambazonia Head of State. The Proclamation was filed along with exhibits as Restoration Law 84/01, and since then has been amended with exhibits as the case HCB/28/92 and UN HRC ICCR Communication 1134/2002 to brace its legal document status. That is the legal process of the making of the existence of the Republic of Ambazonia. So the Ambazonian constitution is nothing else but the constitution that ruled our country till Cameroon union was imposed on us January 1, 1961. Needless to say once Ambazonia becomes independent; its Parliament would of course use the requisite amendment clause in the constitution to revise it to suit ANY of its national needs, including the election of offices of the now independent state! UNITED NATIONS VINDICATES US The UN tribunal on human rights in its judgement in Communication 1134/2002 of March 15, 2005 has confirmed: 

(a) that Restoration Law 84/01 by resuscitating the dead Republic of Cameroon constitutes dissolution of the Cameroon Union 
(b) that the geographical expression Ambazonia identifies one and only one country ex-British Southern Cameroon. 
(c) that the Cameroon High Court judgment HBC/28/92 was the best domestic attempt at resolving our dispute with Cameroon. 

ADDITIONAL REVELATIONS And still on this universe of strict application of the law, then the former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Anan, in what is known as the ‘ANNAN-BAKASSI PEACE ACCORD’, got President Paul Biya to sign in January 2005 a commitment to withdraw to the territorial boundary of Cameroon as obtained at independence. A similar commitment was signed by Nigerian President Oluṣẹgun Mathew Okikiọla Arẹmu Ọbasanjọ. Just when “The Post”, a Cameroonian newspaper owned by Prime Minister Inoni published Fon Dinka’s article exposing that the World Court judgement has rendered the Biya/Obasanjo Bakassi agreement invalid, the UN surveyors went to rebuild the international boundary pillars separating Cameroon from Ambazonia. Was it mere coincidence? These legal measures have so devastated Yaounde that they are doing everything to hide it fight back. Starting with the fact that they have hidden from the Cameroonian public the true mission of the UN visiting Boundary team. In the meantime, they have launched a massive anti-independence propaganda and smear campaign against the veritable emancipation entities as the SCNC and SCYL in the United States.

THE REALITIES OF OUR GEO-POLITICS!

In these post 9/11 days, if your advocacy position is or even gives the appearance that it is for the breaking a part of country, then the international community will call that as terrorism! Add this to the ongoing Cameroon smear campaign and propaganda that we are All ONE CAMEROONIAN people, you have an uphill task just getting the world to understand your side of the story. Yaounde knows this and has capitalized on the fact that we still have not rallied and be organized as that one unified people conscious of their well-established sovereign rights to their Ambazonian nationality. A right secured since the 1984 when the federation was dissolved! In fact the Yaounde clique of insatiable kleptomaniacs has succeeded to get the US Dept of Home land security to classify Southern Cameroonian-based emancipationist activities as secessionists’ terrorists! This is unequivocally false and must not be allowed to persist! Yaounde tried to get the US government to include Ambazonia in their smear campaign and failed because they were told that Ambazonia is a different country from Cameroon. That the Ambazonian nationalism seeks only to terminate Cameroon occupation of Ambazonia They cited the Cameroon Restoration law 84/01 and fact that even the Cameroon military Tribunal ruled that the Ambazonian leader committed no offence by seeking to get President Biya withdraw from Ambazonia in compliance with the Restoration law 84/01. Then they cite in particular the Cameroon High Court judgment HCB/28/92 “Ambazonia-v-Cameroon”; part of which is an order expelling from Ambazonian territory all persons whose presence in Ambazonia derives authority from Yaounde ; and another a declaration that Cameroon occupation is an act of continuing aggression, and a declaration that persons representing Ambazonia in Cameroon Parliament withdraw etc etc. BUT HOW we reverse this political reality of default to POWER where Cameroon seems to be defining us as Cameroonians, and by extension, casting our noble quest for freedom as seditions acts, will be a test of how we understand self-interest! Some may even add that this will be a test whether we finally can really take time to understand our history and the simply admonition that foretells doom for those who refuse to learn from it. 

ARE WE SERVING BUT CAMEROON’S INTEREST INSTEAD? 

None of the people posturing as our liberators have dared to publicly acknowledged these facts, not even the restoration law 84/01 enacted by their master Biya, without realising the legal consequences. These chronic fault finders instead of serving our peoples best self-interest, by evidence of their resistance to Ambazonia, have one and only one secret agenda: namely to execute a campaign of moral sabotage and character assassination against Fon Dinka. While the CHRONIC FAULT-FINDERS have invested a full 15 years focusing but on castigating the person whose only fault was that volunteered to spearhead the resurrection of the sovereignty inherited from the former Southern Cameroons when everyone else ran away from it or failed to recognized its importance, Cameroon has never relented in its assimilationist program. These Chronic Fault-finder have no answer for Cameroon only AMBAZONIA has the answer that meets the logic of our history and the law: all variables which the international community relies on to assess any situation before making a determination. 

THE GREAT SHAME OF THE DIASPORAN EMANCIPATIONISTS: Right here in Washington DC, in the capital of the free world, it is PAN-CAMERFOONISM which is alive and well and flourishing. It is not the case of a certain “Southern Cameroons” fighting to be free from Cameroon. The world will never understand this anachronism because (1) we have confused a very simple and direct message and (2) Cameroon will make sure it remains as confused as it can get. So who are we serving? Our silent unsuspecting population or Cameroon God will design the place and time when we shall come to see the TRUTH since God never desire that our people continue to suffer.

ONLY THE TRUTH SHALL SET OUR PEOPLE FREE.