This is the voice of Amazonia. Truth in resistance, clarity in crisis.
Today is Sunday, August 17th, 2025.
Today’s editorial is titled, Archbishop Andrew Nkea, Apostle of Peace or Advocate of Power.
When the history of this conflict is written, Archbishop Andrew Nkea of Bamenda will stand as a figure of uneasy contradiction. To the regime of Yaounde, he is a blessing, a cleric who preaches reconciliation, even as state forces commit atrocities.
But to many Ambazonians, he represents the failure of the church to defend truth and justice in the face of genocide. Archbishop Nkea has called for peace again and again. He was present in the so-called major national dialogue in 2019, and more recently, he sat with Ferdinand Ngo Ngo at the presidency.
In all these moments, he spoke about dialogue, but he said nothing about massacres, nothing about burnt villages, nothing about the thousands killed and displaced. For victims, that silence is deafening. His credibility fell further when he tried quietly to reach Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako, President of the Federal Republic of Southern Cameroon, in exile.
Instead of going through official church channels, he attempted a backdoor approach as though acting on behalf of the regime. Those efforts failed, and while Nkea stressed peace because people were dying, Dr. Ikome Sako asked the obvious question: why not simply tell the regime to stop the killings? In that moment, the archbishop’s lack of moral strength became clear. Today, many place Nkea alongside elites who survive by pleasing the state, politicians, chiefs, academics, and journalists who choose comfort over conscience.
In contrast, Dr. Ikome Sako echoes Desmond Tutu’s warning, Peace without justice is no peace at all. History will not remember Nkea’s polite sermons or quiet visits. It will only ask this: when genocide raged, did he stand with the oppressed or with the oppressing regime? This has been the voice of Ambazonia, truth in resistance, clarity in crisis.
This is the voice of Amazonia. Truth in resistance, clarity in crisis.
