New Kwatu: Why Africa may need a Mars colony afterall.

I did a blog about why Africans need to focus on Africa & not so much on extraterrestrial activities before but it came from a very isolationist view & didn't assume Africa would ever really participate in global activities but the world is overly connected & globalised. Maybe too interconnected & globalised to the extent that you're in truth more connected to someone on another continent than someone in your neighborhood. We may need an extraterrestrial colony simply for more room in a cramped world & continent apart from other threats.

Africa isn't new to extraterrestrial "missions", some African goods have been taken outside this planet. Even though space travel isn't exactly cheap, there are some cheaper spacecraft models we could copy to send a self-sustaining & self-sufficient eco-system to Mars with some of Africa's more resilient plant species. A self-sufficient & self-sustaining ecosystem is easier & quicker than attempting to terraform any part of the Martian planet. Artificial sun, water, soil, temperature regulating mechanisms & artificial gravity by diamagnetism (for manned missions) would all need to be from Earth for this African extraterrestrial ecosystem. An African space colony may not even be for show off purposes but just a matter of our future survival with global warming, asteroids & nuclear war as dangers that could be the extinction of our race. We could do this collective African space mission as a tribute to Mandla Maseko who was set to be the first black African in space & the ambitious Mr. Edward Makuka Nkoloso who was ridiculed for his vision of a Zambian in space.

AFRICAN SPACE TRAVEL

UPDATE:

Alright, maybe Mars is a bad place for an African biosphere for various reasons & Africa may need technology that's far more advanced than we do have now to set up a base on Mars but perhaps a manned African crew or unmanned automated mission could put farms on the moon should the need ever come.

History of the Mpofana by Mthoko M. Mpofana

I'm not very traditional, I'm more straightforward & basic & often disregard cultural nuances so this history of the Mpofana tribe is going to be as direct & concise as possible. Growing up, I grew up knowing that the clan praises or izithakazelo of the Mpofana are "Zulu" & "Ntombela", I never questioned that. What I know now for sure is that there's a lot more that's hidden in history. What I keep seeing being repeated from various sources is that the Mpofana were part of the Amazizi (or AmaTiti) tribe. I now know that in the midlands & perhaps further north, up to the northwestern parts of KZN, they use the greeting "MaZizi okuhlala", perhaps alluding to the fact that the Mpofana as well as other Amazizi tribes were among the original tribes to settle in present-day KZN from 200 AD onwards & the "Dlamini" praise or greeting was used among all Dlamini tribes i. e. the Amahlubi, Amazizi (Mtiti), Hlangwini

Black, Red & Green...

The black, red & green flag or variations of it has been a symbol of black/African emancipation since the 1920s. The most popular version is the Marcus Garvey created "Pan-African flag" which has red on top, black centre & green at the bottom. These colours are used in official flags of a few African countries which are: Kenya, South Sudan & Malawi. I do not believe it's an ethnic flag as many ethnicities use it & could vary in symbolism for various lands but for me, it could be; black for the night sky or people of that land, red for the blood of that people's forefathers & green for the land of those people. It is also used as the flag of the Biafran independence movement. Kenya. South Sudan. Malawi. In South Africa; the horizontal colour scheme is also used by the IFP's student brigade called SADESMO. In the Arab world, it has been used by the Kingdom of Libya (1951) & vertical colour s

The modern Zulu language.

I always wondered which of the many Zulu dialects modern Zulu is & always thought it was Hlubi (isiMbo) & according to this thesis by a Mr. Isaac Sibusiso Kubeka written in what was apparently 1979, we see modern Zulu is more the original Ntungwa dialect. The Mthethwa dialect (isiLala) that was likely spoken by King Shaka looks more a Tsonga dialect from a Zulu-speaker's perspective. Despite the "Zulu area" speaking many dialects, I'm of the belief that these dialects were mutually intelligible & similar for the most part. This is the only way these Nguni tribes from southern Mozambique up to Umzimvubu River & inland into the Drakensberg Mountains up to Gauteng could understand each other because I, genuinely, think that it was seldom that an African travelled to a land where he couldn't speak the local language in precolonial times. Mild differences between Zulu dialects. Writing Zulu I remember reading a book written in 1930 by

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