At the heart of Lusaka, tucked away behind a nondescript gate, sits the buzzing nerve center of a quiet revolution. It’s not a government facility, nor an international NGO headquarters. It’s the office of 87-year-old Dr Ludwig Sondashi, a lawyer, former Cabinet Minister, and the man behind the controversial herbal remedy known as the Sondashi Formula (SF2000). Once dismissed as pseudoscience, his concoction is now attracting praise from an unlikely source: the African Union. Just two weeks ago, the Head of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), Mme Nardos Bekele-Thomas, visited Zambia and tipped off Vice-President Mutale Nalumango about the AU’s interest in SF2000. In her words, the Sondashi Formula is “proving to be a good solution for Africa,” particularly...
