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Patrick Gathara

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What is really behind the West’s colonial nostalgia

What is really behind the West’s colonial nostalgia

For many years, the global “rules-based order” was presented as a benign system of global governance established by the West. True, its origins...

23.02.2026 40

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Patrick Gathara

Electoral violence is on the horizon in Kenya

24.01.2026 100

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Patrick Gathara

Raila Odinga: The symbol and symptom of Kenya’s political tragedy

15.10.2025 40

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Patrick Gathara

Kenya’s protests are not a symptom of failed democracy. They are democracy

The youth leading the protests must not repeat the mistakes of previous generations. They must demand real change.

01.08.2025 60

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Patrick Gathara

East Africa’s rulers saw what Gen Z can do – now they’re striking first

Albert Ojwang’s death in Kenya marks a regional crackdown aiming to crush youth-led protests before they re-emerge.

11.06.2025 50

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Patrick Gathara

The Nairobi family values conference: When tradition is a colonial trap

Foreign forces continue to push conservative agendas on Africans under the veneer of ‘defending’ African tradition.

20.05.2025 30

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Patrick Gathara

Kenya’s pact of silence with its military is breaking

A BBC documentary on security forces killing protesters ignited a firestorm in Kenya – but not for what it revealed.

01.05.2025 20

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Patrick Gathara

Kenya’s handshake politics: Elite self-preservation disguised as compromise

The recent MoU between William Ruto’s and Raila Odinga’s parties is part of an honoured Kenyan tradition.

21.03.2025 40

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Patrick Gathara

Why some in the Global South are not mourning the demise of USAID

The aid industry has always propped up imperial domination. Its implosion may be an opportunity to shape a new order.

03.03.2025 20

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Patrick Gathara

Trump’s plan to colonise Gaza is rooted in an old white fantasy

The US president’s imagined entitlement to other people’s land is very familiar to Africans.

06.02.2025 20

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Patrick Gathara

In Kenya, not even the cartoonists are safe

Political cartooning in Kenya has never been without its risks. Cartoonists have faced state-engineered dismissal and censorship, lawsuits from...

03.01.2025 20

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Patrick Gathara