This is Hilarious, If you havent heard this story you have to read it..
On Oct. 30, 1964, TIME magazine reported on the celebration of the independence of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), with its new president, Kenneth Kaunda.
But as the jubilant crowds celebrated, one man, Nkoloso complained that the festivities were interfering with his "space program." Edward Makuka Nkolosoinformed the TIME reporter that his Zambian "astronauts" would beat both the US and the Soviet Union in the space race -- by going to the moon, and then to Mars.
In a newspaper editorial, Nkoloso claimed to have studied Mars for some time from telescopes at his "secret headquarters" outside Lusaka, and announced that the planet was populated by primitive natives. (He graciously added that his missionaries would not force the native Martians to convert to Christianity.) In fact, he said, he could have achieved the conquest of Mars a mere few days after Zambia's independence had UNESCO come through with the funding. Oh, he also called for the detention of Russian and American spies trying to steal his "space secrets" -- and his cats. [Read More]
Anyhow..long story short...no one made it to Mars, the ummmhh $700 million financial aid from the United Nations.. er, fell short, and one of the astronauts, a 17-year-old girl, got knocked up and had to return to her village....but well..this inspired something else..
Afronauts!
( Dont say this word out loud, Im sitting in the library and i just found out the wrong way how weird it sounds..Afro-nuts...no no no )
By Photographer Cristina De Miguel
"Afronauts is based on the documentation of an impossible dream that only lives in the pictures. I start from a real fact that took place 50 years ago and rebuild the documents, adapting them to my personal imagery."
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