Talks

The 1990s were a period of great expectation, followed by great disappointment. Meanwhile, a generation coming of age had to grapple with social, sexual and gender issues as the HIV pandemic raged. Apart from remembering that difficult time, Oyunga walks us through the importance of mourning, memory and story telling, arguing that we need to reinvent ourselves. Oyunga Pala is an anthropologist, writer and story teller best known as the first writer of the column "Man Talk."

Oyunga Pala shares the lessons he has learned from taking care of a forest. What parallels can we draw from this and apply to our lives? We are all interdependent, we must be connected to our roots and remain grounded, we must yield and bend.

The man's man, that is what he is referred to as. There are as many people who love his writing, as those who get riled up by it. Not only can he write, he speaks powerfully. He told us how a man must break up with his mum to be able to grow up into his own man.