Patrick Gathara

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

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What makes a 'humanitarian crisis'?

By the end of April this year in one of the countries hardest-hit by COVID-19, an oil-rich nation of some 300 million people including a large Muslim...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

100 04.07.2020

Should images of coronavirus victims be sanitised?

The New York Times chose a startling way to mark the catastrophe COVID-19 has wreaked in the US. With the country approaching the grim milestone of...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

40 07.06.2020

Western media shows death only when it is in Africa

Let us try a little thought experiment. Imagine, if you will, that rather than Europe and North America, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

1000 13.05.2020

In the time of pandemic, we need to be vigilant

Across the world, people have been looking to governments to guide them through the coronavirus pandemic. And governments have been more than happy to...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

20 14.04.2020

Africa does not need to 'burn down the house' to defeat COVID-19

In April 1914, as Europe was moving towards war, Dakar, the capital of present-day Senegal, was hit by an epidemic of bubonic plague that within a...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

550 16.03.2020

Kenya needs to stop panicking and start preparing for coronavirus

Kenyans are a worried lot. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the globe, there are increasing questions being raised about the...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

100 02.03.2020

Singing the song of Daniel arap Moi

The death of former Kenyan president, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, in a private hospital in the capital, Nairobi, is bound to reopen old wounds in the...

Patrick Gathara

Al Jazeera

20 04.02.2020