Patrick Gathara

This week­end’s spec­ta­cle is the lat­est episode of the world’s longest-run­ning re­al­i­ty show.

In their com­pe­ti­tion for pow­er, Kenyan politi­cians pur­pose­ly in­sti­gate up­heaval yet again.

The le­gal push­back against Kenya’s anti-LGBTQ colo­nial-era laws has un­leashed vi­cious ho­mo­pho­bia in the pub­lic space.

African states have led the charge against apartheid be­fore. They could also spear­head the boy­cott of Is­rael to­day.

The year 2023 will see the Kenyan state set­tle down to its cus­tom­ary role of par­a­site and pro­tec­tor of elite ex­trac­tion.

Kenyans marked the Plat­inum Ju­bilee of the British queen but ig­nored the 70th an­niver­sary of the KLFA re­bel­lion. Why?

Pleas from the Glob­al South will not stir West­ern gov­ern­ment into ac­tion. Only West­ern suf­fer­ing will.

The re­cent racism row in France re­veals much about im­pe­r­i­al ideas of iden­ti­ty among both right and the left.

Queen Eliz­a­beth’s pass­ing should pro­voke a self-ex­am­i­na­tion of our own role in pre­serv­ing colo­nial her­itage.

Democ­ra­cy, rather than a sys­tem for se­lect­ing rulers, should en­able the peo­ple to rule them­selves.