Patrick Mono Mbura

Patrick Mono Mbura is a native Kenyan, born in 1971. He grew up in the countryside outside Mombassa, the coastal region of Kenya. In 1979 he started primary education and continued until 1991, then working in a Catholic Mission as Youth Chairperson and as Deanery Youth Chairperson. He studied hotel and catering supervision from 1995-97. Patrick is one of the first writers to be funded by openDemocracy to learn IT skills in his local village so he can take part in oD's global conversation.

Think again

It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio

By Patrick Mono Mbura

/ 12 Jan 2003

You and me: looking forward from Kenya and New York

ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 We are all survivors. Survivors of the Middle Passage, the Trail of Tears, the Holocaust, the Great Depression, or descendants of those who

By Jacqueline Berrien and Patrick Mono Mbura

/ 18 Sep 2002