00:53:58So it didn't happen. It was just a joke. People at the time didn't believe.
00:54:10But now they're going to make people at London's Royal Court go and see a theater about the thing that never, the ridiculed thing that never happened.0.97
00:54:24exactly this is so fucking retarded that's right thank you jordy all those works uses0.96
00:54:35nicolas vision of space exploration and uh let me pull this up on the side here uh all those works0.96
00:54:42using the closest visions of space exploration as a way to imagine beyond traditional western
00:54:49conceptions i mean you can you can you can imagine like all you want that you know we we was and she
00:54:58and atlantis is real and merkaba energy is going to get you there that's a fight i mean you can
00:55:04imagine imagine it all day long that's fine but that doesn't make it real it doesn't mean
00:55:09that uh that it's actually going to happen all right okay it's just you actually need
00:55:16you need physics you actually need physics and material and math this is not something like
00:55:24george lopez lopez skit here but like we we don't need new blueprints you know when they
00:55:30make fun of like uh you know uh jeremy and mike standing with the uh surveying tools like can you
00:55:38move a skosh we don't need we don't need we don't yeah have you seen some of the recent mexican
00:55:44builds all these like there's like million dollar houses going up now it's just leaks everywhere0.95
00:55:49and weird shit and they have they don't put anything in the right place and there's cracks
00:55:53and seams and leakage and anyway let's not do uh let's not do that one okay let's let's proceed0.50
00:55:58here let's finish off the mbeki mbolo mkaki story here of the zamb the brave zambian space program
00:56:06wakalantis yeah we can can come up with various various terms for this here ladies and gentlemen
00:56:13Well, there's been considerable critique from the outside.
00:56:22They used Nicolos' visions of space exploration as a way to imagine
00:56:27beyond traditional Western conceptions of what the future could look like,
00:56:33repositioning black Africans as leaders and trailblazers.
00:56:38In many ways, Nucoloso was an early, though perhaps largely forgotten, pioneer of Afrofuturism,
00:56:47a coined term in the 90s by cultural critic Mark Derry.
00:56:51I think we did a segment on Afrofuturism once.
00:56:56While there's been considerable attention from outside the country,
00:57:00it's clear that these historic events mean a great deal to Zambians too.
00:57:04This month, Circus Zambia, a Lucasa-based social enterprise that offers circus and life skills training to young people from marginalized backgrounds,
00:57:15brings its show Afronauts to the underbelly at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.