Patrick Gathara

The sun is setting on the West’s time as the self-appointed democracy police of the world.

On the eve of a poll that many believe ‘could break America’, the US can learn a lot from Kenya’s election woes.

The Kenyan government is now mishandling the COVID-19 crisis in similar ways.

The brutal tactics used to contain the Mau Mau uprising in colonial Kenya are now guiding the global war on terror.

The second republic Kenyans tried to create with the 2010 constitution looks much like what it was supposed to replace.

For democrats in Africa, the next three months will be pivotal in deciding whether the US will be a foe or an ally.

Does the situation in the United States over the last few weeks qualify as a humanitarian crisis?

Is publishing more graphic images of the dead in the interests of the general public?

Unlike the victims of Ebola, the tragedies of coronavirus victims are demonstrated in numbers.

Governments are taking ’emergency’ powers that they may seek to retain in the long term. We should not let them do so.