Some Africanfuturistic music to go with this:

https://nyaminyamirecords.bandcamp.com/album/bantu-spaceship

Articles

The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race | The New Yorker

The Zambian "Afronaut" Who Wanted to Join the Space Race

Parsing the Real and Unreal Stories of the Zambian Space Academy

Parsing the Real and Unreal Stories of the Zambian Space Academy

Afronauts: on Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility ($)

Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility | Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry | Cambridge Core

The Afronaut and Retrofuturism in Africa ($)

Project MUSE - The Afronaut and Retrofuturism in Africa

Afronauts: Race in Space ($)