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COLUMNIST: FORTUNE MADONDO

76 year-old Yacouba Sawadogo in 2022, Bangre Raaga Forest. Photo courtesy of Barwend San

The Man Who Fought The Sahara To A Halt With A Shovel

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They told us the Sahel was dead. Geneva told us. Paris told us. Washington told us. They came with reports and se ...

Oct 16, 2026 | Feature Article

One Date. Two Nobels. One War 1984: TUTU Norway announced: Tutu has won the Nobel Peace P ...

Oct 16, 2026 | Feature Article

Reclaiming Our Plates Every year, Africa sends US$100 billion abroad to buy food mdash; that is more than what ...

Oct 14, 2026 | Feature Article

A Confession My brother. My sister. Sit. On October 12, 2026, Joseph Kabila Kabange confessed. In hi ...

Oct 11, 2026 | Feature Article

South Africa is a contradiction that bleeds. The nation that gave us Ubuntu and buried apartheid with the help of the re ...

Oct 9, 2026 | Feature Article

Credit rating agencies play an indispensable role in the architecture of global finance, acting as critical gatekeep ...

Oct 4, 2026 | Feature Article

With hindsight, Pretoria did not answer the only question that mattered: Who owns Ethiopia? Who controls federalism, who ...

Sep 26, 2026 | Feature Article

When brothers fight to death, a stranger inherits their inheritance . Introduction The ...

Sep 24, 2026 | Feature Article

Theme of the 81st Session of UNGA The theme of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UN ...

Sep 11, 2026 | Feature Article

Africa 39;s Plan To Feed Itself Africa has a new $10 billion plan to feed itself by 2030. But at the 20th ...

Sep 9, 2026 | Feature Article

As the established ruling power, the United States of America sees its global dominance shaken by the rise of China, and ...

Sep 7, 2026 | Feature Article

Crime Scene: Kitwe, Zambia, February 18, 2025 On February 18, 2025, the Kafue River turned to acid. According ...

Sep 7, 2026 | Feature Article

A Distortion Taught In Classrooms For generations, classrooms were teaching distortion. It is not the geography ...

Sep 2, 2026 | Feature Article

The Question Before Us On 13 August 2026, Zambians stood in queues and voted. Again. For the seventh time since ...

Aug 29, 2026 | Feature Article

Introduction Before the guns, before the chains, there was a pen in Rome. That pen signed Africa away. The ...

Aug 21, 2026 | Feature Article

The Invoice R292 million or US$18,5 million.Thats the invoice South Africa (SA) sent to Nigeria, Ethiopia ...

Aug 12, 2026 | Feature Article

Introduction He came to Africa not to take, not to dictate policy or impose his own will, but to stand shoulder ...

Fortune Madondo
Fortune Madondo

Fortune Madondo is a Zimbabwean Pan-Africanist writer, political analyst and a decolonial thinker. . More His work is characterized by staunch, unapologetic, defiant, Pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist stance, often addressing issues of neocolonialism and the need for African self-determination. His writing champions global South solidarity, regularly critiquing global powers hegemony and resource exploitation in Africa.His work is driven by his core Pan-Africanist framework: African sovereignty, anti-paternalism, African geopolitics; in all this, he advocates for socio-economic justice. He is a youth empowerment advocate, organiser, activist and a founder of a youth organization.

Trust in Ghana’s Judiciary: Which recent case most influenced your view?

Started: 01-09-2026 | Ends: 30-11-2026