Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front
# Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front

The Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front (SCACUF) was a nonviolent movement seeking the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. It was an umbrella organization, consisting of several indigenous and English-speaking nationalist movements.

On October 1, 2017, it declared the restoration of the independence of Ambazonia from a failed federation with French-speaking Cameroun, with Chairperson Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe as president, and later transformed itself into the Interim Government of Ambazonia.

The cause of the fracture is rooted in (a) systematic underhand efforts by the 80% majority French-speaking Cameroun political leadership to annihilate the Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage of the former British Southern Cameroons, (b) covert policies to convert the indigenous people into French speakers in an expanded Francafrique, impose civil law practices in common law courts and undermine the Anglo-Saxon educational system, and as well as to (c) grant to imperial France unfettered access to natural resources and the sovereign right to determine the cultural, political and economic choices in Ambazonia as in the Cameroon Republic; all absent the consent of the indigenous people of the former British Southern Cameroons. These grievances ignited the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) crisis leading to the proclamation of independence restoration in 2017. The territory gained independence 1 October 1961 from the United Kingdom.

