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Patrick Gathara is a communications consultant, writer, and award-winning political cartoonist based in Nairobi.
Like blackface, the US election is a stupid inversion of the ‘usual’ trope of being the superpower that offers lessons on governance and rights to Africa
MPs’ detention may signal the silencing of dissent and a bid to railroad changes to the Constitution
The world has become a more complicated place — that doesn’t mean your reporting has to be.
The protests sweeping the United States after the latest police killing of a black man again speak to the ability of images to evoke powerful emotional responses
Kenya’s government has excluded nongovernmental organisations and other groups such as churches from its emergency decision-making. This is a mistake
There is a lot of money to be made from exploiting Kenyans’ personal data, and no shortage of unscrupulous politicians willing to do the exploiting
Once again, Africans have been reminded that some deaths, and thus lives, are more important than others
Kenya said it invaded Somalia to protect its citizens, but the attack in Nairobi this week shows this has failed
