Understanding the Ambazonia nightmare

Understanding the « Ambazonia » nightmare

Politics and geopolitics of a national security dilemma

The « Ambazonian » Nightmare tells the story of how the now almost six years of instability started in the two English speaking regions of the Republic of Cameroon. The swiftly consolidating insecurity dilemma holds within two contradictory historical mistakes : the enforcement of the English speaking Cameroon's populations resentment of specificity and marginality and the paradoxical laxism of Cameroon's national security and defence system. The state failed in considering the impact of « Anglophone » social and political mobilizations on its safety and security. The Cameroon's intelligence system lacked the ability to frame and depict phenomenon which were bearing a high potential of political and social instability.

Yet, the security system was not weak but negligent of the threat of an « Anglophone » revolutionary agenda and the challenge it was posing to the unity of the nation and the philosophy of national integration.