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The short film Afronauts from the Ghanaian director Frances Bodomo looks at the real history of a planned space program in Zambia of the 1960s, a time at which political utopias encountered technological progress.
Afro Tech: Afrofuturism, Telling Tales of Speculative Futures - Inke Arns | Open Transcripts 2020
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“Mr. Shuttleworth looked to the stars. Paying an estimated $20 million to Russian officials, he secured a 10-day trip to space and the International Space Station on the Soyuz TM-34 in 2002 and became the first ‘Afronaut,’ as the press described him.�?
The New York Times, A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows, by Ashlee Vance, January 10, 2009
January 11, 2009