Brenda Biya has once again shown that she is creating a different path for herself after liking and resharing a viral TikTok video that sharply criticises her father for being part of the stolen election at the age of 92. The video, created by popular content creator Dylan Page, highlights Paul Biya’s abolition of presidential term limits and his frequent, years-long absences from Cameroon during his decades in power.
Brenda’s visible engagement with the video, which has now circulated widely on TikTok, marks the latest escalation in her increasingly public and tumultuous conflict with her family and the presidency.
Brenda Biya, 27, is the second child of President Paul Biya and First Lady Chantal Biya. Unlike her guarded and secretive family, Brenda has maintained a highly visible public life on social media, where she has often challenged the sanitised image of Cameroon’s ruling household.
Her relationship with the presidential family has long been fraught. Brenda has openly discussed emotional distress, isolation, and clashes within the family. She has also accused close associates of the presidency of harming her and interfering with her personal life.
In September, ahead of the presidential election, Brenda posted a shocking video on TikTok urging Cameroonians not to vote for her father, accusing him of causing suffering throughout his 40-plus-year rule. She apologised to Cameroonians “for what he has done” and said she wished for a different president.
At one point, Brenda alleged that a member of the presidential circle wanted her dead and described herself as estranged from the Biya household. Although she later removed the video and posted an apology, the damage and the message had already spread nationwide.
The resurfacing of criticism through Dylan Page’s video appears to have reignited Brenda’s willingness to confront her father’s legacy. The video details how Paul Biya removed term limits in 2008 and how he has spent years abroad, governing remotely while Cameroon faced economic stagnation, conflict, and crises at home.
Brenda’s decision to like and repost the critical analysis is being interpreted as a direct endorsement of the accusations and another rejection of the presidency she was born into.
For many young Cameroonians, Brenda’s actions have also become a rare moment of frankness from within a political system marked by secrecy and authoritarian control. Her willingness to amplify foreign criticism, they say, suggests she has little to lose, and perhaps no remaining ties with Etoudi.
As Paul Biya begins yet another term in office, the increasingly public discord within his own household is becoming a story of its own, one that underscores the generational and political fractures inside Cameroon’s ruling class.