They tried to silence us. They jailed us. They scattered us across borders and into refugee camps. They burned our towns and called it peace. Yet today, we are still here, 9 years after— speaking, writing, resisting.
The Ambazonia Times is not just a newspaper. It is the living record of a people who refused to disappear. It is the voice of a struggle that the world cannot ignore. It is proof that a people’s spirit cannot be crushed, no matter the odds.
For more than a decade, the people of Southern Cameroons have demanded one simple truth: the right to exist as a free and equal nation. That demand has been met with bullets, prisons, and exile. Thousands sit behind bars for the crime of speaking truth to power. Hundreds of thousands sleep under foreign skies for the crime of being Southern Cameroonian/Ambazonian. Entire communities have been displaced. Children grow up knowing only fear and uncertainty. Yet the struggle lives — and so do we.
Through these pages, you will meet the prisoners whose names the world forgets, in our column Behind the Walls. You will hear the stories of mothers, children, and families forced into exile, in Behind the Walls. You will witness villages and communities holding on with courage and creativity, chronicled in From the Home Front.You will learn how ordinary citizens continue to resist, even under impossible circumstances.
You will read about the diplomatic battles being waged in international halls, in The Diplomatic Front. You will see how Ambazonia’s voice is slowly but surely reaching the world — reminding governments and organizations that silence will not protect oppression, and that justice cannot be postponed indefinitely.
You will learn how traders, farmers, and small businesses survive under in Survival. Even under occupation, commerce persists, families feed themselves, and communities strive to build a future. And you will be inspired by the women who carry the nation on their shoulders — leading communities, caring for the displaced, and sustaining hope — in Women of the Struggle and Mothers of the Nation.
The Ambazonia Times will not flatter power.
We will not rewrite our pain.
We will not abandon our truth.
This paper stands with the oppressed, with the exiled, with the imprisoned, and with every woman and man who still believes that Southern Cameroons has a future beyond occupation. We stand with the dream of freedom, the promise of justice, and the courage of a people who refuse to disappear. The Ambazonia Times also stands firmly against violence in all its forms and from wherever it originates, and remain committed to justice, dignity, and peaceful solutions.
History is watching.
And we are writing it — for today, for tomorrow, and for generations yet to come.
— The Editors
