Patrick Gathara

Queen to­day is Jekyll to UK’s Hyde – en­cap­su­lat­ing the glo­ry and benev­o­lence of em­pire with the evil sep­a­rat­ed out.

Kenyans tend to look back at the Kiba­ki years with rose-tint­ed glass­es, but I have my doubts.

The war can help the world recog­nise that a nu­clear-free world should not be an as­pi­ra­tion with an in­def­i­nite time­line.

‘Stand with Ukraine’ is not just a hu­man­i­tar­i­an state­ment. It’s a po­lit­i­cal one, too.

The me­dia is work­ing hard to sell us a black and white nar­ra­tive on the Rus­sia-Ukraine war.

West­ern moral de­for­mi­ties are on an open dis­play amid the war in Ukraine.

While Mar­tin Ki­mani was right to con­demn Rus­sia, he seemed to em­brace the colo­nial lega­cy in Africa.

Apartheid Is­rael should not en­joy African recog­ni­tion, just as apartheid South Africa did not.

For decades, elec­tions have hard­ly made a dif­fer­ence in curb­ing vi­o­lent plun­der by Kenya’s rul­ing class.

The queen, who spent a life time hid­ing away her fam­i­ly’s vi­o­lent lega­cy, is now try­ing to hide away her dis­graced son.