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Innocent Madawo

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Innocent Madawo was born and educated in Zimbabwe where he also trained and worked as a journalist for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and the Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency. Madawo left Zimbabwe at a time when journalism had been turned upside down by President Mugabe’s then Information Minister, Prof Jonathan Moyo, whose concept of journalism was “unbridled propaganda” on behalf of the government. Madawo now has a column in the Toronto Sun. He has also written op-eds for The Globe and Mail.

Articles written by Innocent Madawo

South Africa in Need of World Cup Boost

By Innocent Madawo 14 Jun 2010 | World Politics Review

The World Cup comes at a time when South Africa has been on a steady slide in all aspects of its national identity. Over and above all the sporting and cultural benefits that come with hosting the world's most-lucrative sporting event, South Africa hopes to use the accompanying high profile to mend its increasingly fractious politics, a deteriorating economy and a social system that is becoming more dysfunctional.

The African Union's Madagascar Sanctions Hypocrisy

By Innocent Madawo 25 Mar 2010 | World Politics Review

The African Union's decision last week to impose targeted sanctions on Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina and 108 of his top officials was not necessarily wrong, given the country's political crisis and resulting human rights violations. What is surprising and rather curious, though, is that Madagascar was singled out from an extensive list of perpetual offenders to which the AU turns a blind eye.

Canada's Campaign Against Refugees

By Innocent Madawo 12 Aug 2009 | World Politics Review

TORONTO -- Canada is regarded as a refugee's paradise. Indeed, the federal government rarely misses an opportunity to tout the country's ever increasing immigrant population, a significant number of which are supposed to be refugees. But the Stephen Harper administration inherited a short-staffed immigration and refugee system. And instead of improving it, the Conservative government seems to be on an all out campaign to limit the influx of refugees.

SADC's Zimbabwe Approach Doomed to Fail

By Innocent Madawo 17 Apr 2009 | World Politics Review

An extraordinary summit of the Southern Africa Development Community last month pledged to support Zimbabwe in implementing a short-term emergency recovery plan, with promises of "budget support, lines of credit, joint ventures and toll manufacturing." But while the regional group's ambition to raise $10 billion for Zimbabwe is noble, its approach is bound to fail.

African Union's Shortcomings Limit African Solutions

By Innocent Madawo 02 Mar 2009 | World Politics Review

The African Union wants to be taken seriously, seeking the same respect accorded to its Western counterparts. And how better to earn that respect than to show that Africa can take care of its own? Hence the ASFAP doctrine -- African Solutions for African Problems. But as recent developments in Zimbabwe and elsewhere illustrate, two important shortcomings prevent the AU from solving Africa's problems.