Patrick Gathara

West­ern me­dia cov­er­age of the war re­flects the cul­tur­al per­cep­tion that Pales­tin­ian and Is­raeli lives are not equal.

Pres­i­dent Ruto seems un­will­ing to re­spect the red lines that keep Kenya func­tion­ing amid chron­ic in­tra-elite fight­ing.

The Kenyan pres­i­dent is fac­ing the con­se­quences of con­fus­ing a par­lia­men­tary ma­jor­i­ty for pop­u­lar le­git­i­ma­cy.

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.