Patrick Gathara

Nairobi

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.

Articles

A Gaza serve la politica oltre alla solidarietà

2 days ago | internazionale.it | Patrick Gathara

L’etica non è fine a se stessa. È espressione di valori morali più profondi: princìpi codificati che guidano le nostre azioni sulla base di quello che consideriamo giusto. Ma l’etica può sganciarsi dai valori che dovrebbe servire, e quando lo fa può portare non solo alla confusione, ma anche alla complicità con il male.
Decolonise How? When ethics become alibis

1 week ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Patrick Gathara

Republish this article Editor’s note: This column, Decolonise How? charts efforts towards more ethical reporting of humanitarian crises.
When tradition is a colonial trap

2 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | Patrick Gathara

Senior Editor for Inclusive Storytelling at The New Humanitarian Across Africa, debates about cultural preservation and traditional values are increasingly being influenced by forces that promote conservative social agendas rooted in colonial and missionary legacies. These movements, often backed by generous Western funding, seek to impose rigid, exclusionary values that contradict the continent's diverse and historically dynamic cultures.
The Nairobi family values conference: When tradition is a colonial trap - Patrick Gathara

2 weeks ago | qoshe.com | Patrick Gathara

Across Africa, debates about cultural preservation and traditional values are increasingly being influenced by forces that promote conservative social agendas rooted in colonial and missionary legacies. These movements, often backed by generous Western funding, seek to impose rigid, exclusionary values that contradict the continent’s diverse and historically dynamic cultures.
Il patto del silenzio tra il Kenya e i militari

1 month ago | internazionale.it | Patrick Gathara

Il 28 aprile le autorità keniane hanno vietato la proiezione a Nairobi di un documentario della Bbc sul ruolo dell’esercito nell’uccisione dei manifestanti che l’anno scorso protestavano contro il presidente William Ruto. Non è stato solo un atto di censura.
Kenya's pact of silence with its military is breaking

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Patrick Gathara

Senior Editor for Inclusive Storytelling at The New Humanitarian When the Kenyan government blocked the public screening of a BBC documentary investigating the military's role in the killing of protesters, it was about more than censorship. It was about protecting a decades-old pact - a silent agreement between the military, the state, the media, and the public: the army stays out of overt politics, and in return, no one looks too closely at what it's doing.
Kenya’s pact of silence with its military is breaking - Patrick Gathara

1 month ago | qoshe.com | Patrick Gathara
Decolonise How? Who owns the story?

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.
The end of Western values

2 months 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,...
Decolonise How? To change humanitarian aid, we need to change media coverage too

2 months ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Patrick Gathara

Republish this article Editor’s note: This column, Decolonise How? charts efforts towards more ethical reporting of humanitarian crises.