Oyunga Pala is a Kenyan writer, journalist, and editor, whose literary craftsmanship spans over two decades. With narratives drawn from the global African community, he has kept readers engaged and provoked a rethinking of African modernities through versatile content curation, editing, creative-writing for print, magazines, radio, television, and the film industry.
Exploring the boundaries between the extreme and the everyday, while deliberately challenging stereotypes of African ‘Otherness’, Oyunga remaps the African world beyond its geographical boundaries. He insightfully examines circumstances that afflict African migrants and diasporas by devoting his energy to exploring the fullness of the human experience.
As a chronicler of the modern African experience, Oyunga attends to the specificity of location and the ways that culture, geography, history, and architecture shape experiences. He attends to the dense texture of everyday life and the varied practices of African self-making by carefully observing the big and small things motivating human interaction thus challenging any claims to a single African story.
Oyunga currently resides in Amsterdam.