Patrick Gathara
Senior Editor for Inclusive Storytelling at The New Humanitarian
Inveterate complainer, armchair activist, keyboard warrior, cartoonist, writer, columnist. Snr Editor for Inclusive Storytelling at The New Humanitarian.
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2 weeks ago |
thenewhumanitarian.org | Patrick Gathara
Republish this article My late grandmother, Eunice Nyawira, was not a big fan of the idea of “Western values”. She couldn’t get her head around it. A peasant farmer in central Kenya born at the dawn of colonialism, she had seen her share of hardships, including food shortages that at times necessitated a resort to Western-provided food aid. However, she fiercely resisted the notion that this form of charity was something different than the community practices she had witnessed in her youth,...
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1 month ago |
thenewhumanitarian.org | Patrick Gathara
Republish this article Editor’s note: This column, Decolonise How? charts efforts towards more ethical reporting of humanitarian crises.
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1 month ago |
theelephant.info | Patrick Gathara
In 2020, a now defunct Twitter account posted this: “Every heartwarming human interest story in America is like, ‘He raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine’ and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you’d need to pay to prevent it from being used.”It sure sounds like they could be describing the humanitarian system, doesn’t it?
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1 month ago |
aljazeera.com | Patrick Gathara
The recent MoU between Raila's and Ruto's parties follows a long tradition of intractable enemies coming together to get rich, block reform and survive in Kenyan politics. Senior Editor for Inclusive Storytelling at The New Humanitarian The handshake is an honoured tradition of Kenyan politics. It signifies the coming together of seemingly intractable enemies into an agreement to share the spoils rather than fight over them.
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1 month ago |
qoshe.com | Patrick Gathara
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