Gathara's World

When the prolific columnist, Charles Onyango-Obbo, wrote that the International Criminal Court “had finally made Kenya an African country...

A version of this article was published in The Star. “How can Africans not identify with victims when they've gone through the horro...

In his famous 1996 speech delivered on the occasion of the passing of the new Constitution of South Africa in Cape Town, Thabo Mbeki, the...

Nanjala Nyabola, Kenyan writer and graduate student at Harvard Law School, recently caused a bit of a stir with her Aljazeera article askin...

"No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy." Amartya Sen

According to a 2005 International Air Transportation Association (IATA) report, Africa has a crash rate 9 times the world average. Though...

Few issues have generated as much heat in recent African affairs as China’s foray onto the continent. Much has been made of the dragon’s ins...

“I call on all Ministers and Assistant Ministers and every other person to sing like parrots. During Mzee Kenyatta’s period, I persistently ...

I'm reposting the article below only because it was published in The East African : The Black Man’s Burden: How Africa Subsidises ...

This from Rosa Whitaker, former Assistant US Trade Representative to Africa, serving under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and no...

First we were the only country in the world to declare a public holiday to honour the election of a foreign head of state. That was bad enou...

Over the weekend I had an interesting discussion with my Dad regarding the achievements (or lack thereof) of the Kibaki administration. As t...