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The Zambian “Afronaut” who wanted to join the space race (2017)

• krrrh 7y ago
  The artist Cristina de Middel, who is mentioned in the article, made a very cool series of works on this subject. It features archived material as well as imagined/staged photographs. Worth checking out even if you don’t read the whole article. http://www.lademiddel.com/the-afronauts-1.html http://www.lademiddel.com/the-afronauts-1.html
• knolax 7y ago
  > Sardanis said, “everybody loved him, but at that stage, he was not being taken seriously . . . He was insane. Not a normal person.” Sardanis attributed this to what happened in Luwingu. “He was arrested and tortured. The Northern Rhodesian police tortured him. And after that, he lost it." The article's really burying the lede there.
• dmix 7y ago
  From wikipedia: > Nkoloso stated goals of the program were to establish a Christian ministry to "primitive" Martians, and the hope of Zambia becoming the "controllers of the Seventh Heaven of Interstellar space". However, he reportedly instructed the missionary in the space program not to force Christianity onto the native Martian inhabitants
• ryuukk_ 7y ago
  "afro"naut? seriously? they don't hide their racism anymore