Veteran relationships and satirical writer Oyunga Pala is back to mainstream media circulation after a stint in farming. The no-holds-barred male-centric columnist, who ran the popular Man Talk column in Saturday Nation, has debuted today (Monday 20, 2012) in Standard’s Crazy Monday magazine.
Oyunga Pala stopped his column after taking up the editor’s job of Adam magazine, which was doomed to fail from the word go, and fail it did after it was unable attract peculiar Kenyan male readers, who love flipping through female magazine pages with sexy women photos like True Love and Passion.
“Oyunga is back,” said a source at Standard confirmed. “He will be writing for Crazy Monday.” Mr Pala broke the news on his Facebook page. He said yesterday. “Dear Friends, I start a weekly contribution for the Standard’s Crazy Monday mag tomorrow. An honest take on changing social moves in Kenya laced with dry humour. “
He said his column will assume a “pop psychology” tone, going behind the mask and constantly seeking to identify our shared trait, the ‘Kenyan’ in us all. “My usual offering, mad men, will also rear its stubborn head occasionally. Your feedback is requested in shaping the page. Hope you enjoy the reading and it’s nice to be back in circulation.”
The writer retreated to his village in Nyanza to try his hand at farming potatoes, according to sources, after the callapse of Adam magazine, started in 2007 and burried in 2009, which was run by South Africans. Analysts say it Adam that killed Oyunga’s column after the exposure that came with being an editor, thus killing the mystery that sustained the column.
Oyunga Pala is best known for his controversial column, “Man Talk,” in the Saturday Nation Magazine. He is an avid writer whose work ranges from social commentary to fiction as well as travel writing. His other regular column is the “Motorcycle Diaries” in Kenya ’s Drum Magazine. His baratone voice is remembered by many who listened his radio program, “Sex Talk.” His identity remained a well-kept secret until he joined Adam, which blew off the cover, costing him the anonymity that made his column popular. Welcome back, Oyunga.
