Papa Don's failed state: the US as seen from Kenya

For months, satirist Patrick Gathara has painted the US as a third world' country. Then came the storming of the Capitol

For more than two months now, I have been regularly posting quasi-satirical tweets on the US elections and their aftermath from my home in Kenya, in the style of foreign correspondents reporting on events in the third world".

My aim has been to puncture that widely accepted idea that the globe is divided between those who have achieved democratic nirvana and those of us still seeking enlightenment at the feet of western gurus, chanting their mantras of electoral reform and accountability. This week - for a moment - I worried whether the truth was now beyond satire.