Patrick Gathara

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

Displaced Palestinians make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip

Amid Ruto’s crackdown on dissent, a popular young cartoonist critical of his government went missing on Christmas Eve.

Protest in Kenya over alleged abductions

The mobilisation of an imagined identity is very effective in scaring off prosecutors and intimidating judges.

EPA]

Supporters of VP Harris turn to tribal rhetoric to excuse devastating election loss against white-wing former strongman.

Vice President And Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris Delivers Concession Speech At Howard University

Whoever wins on November 5 will likely keep the banana republic on a destructive path.

Whatever the outcome, analysts have reason to worry about the impact the election will have on the Caucasian bloc and especially on the European pseudo-continent, writes Gathara [Brendan Smialowski and Chandan Khanna/ AFP]

The chaotic face-off between Trump and Harris added to concerns over the state of US democracy.

People watch the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, at the Gipsy Las Vegas in Las Vegas. [AP Photo/John Locher]

The troubled North American regime made no promises to address the nation’s deepening divides at the Chicago gathering.

Kamala Harris at DNC

Will the Kenyan president go down the same path as his predecessors?

Kenya's President William Ruto addresses the nation after he dissolved his entire cabinet apart from the foreign minister in the wake of nationwide protests against new taxes, at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, July 11, 2024 [Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]

We are witnessing the latest, and most glorious, stage of a revolution 40 years in the making.

Kenya Protests

ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders threaten to upend the established system of Western impunity.

The non-Western world is increasingly looking to give international institutions teeth and make them less tools of Western hegemony, writes Gathara [Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo/Reuters]