It's July 2007, and just

July 2007,

It's July 2007, and just months after his election,

the new French president, Nicholas Sarkozy, is on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa.

And in the midst of his centerpiece speech at the University of Dhaka, Sen, he tells the assembled students what he thinks about Africa's trajectory.

I mean, the moment's silence was the last.

I may he no live in alibi to sordid of the land. the

time he no livin to lead to sort of the repetition to

to reinvent a distance to

to invent a distance.

The African man has never launched himself towards the future.

The idea never came to him to get out of this repetition and invent his own destiny.

This is a series about Africans that have launched themselves into the future.

It's about space, space science and its history on the continent.

From amateur launches, space preparations were made even by Zambia, northern Odisha. to African-built satellites

built satellites orbiting the Earth right now.

When the laptop occurs and it was a statistic, I don't know how explain, describe the joy of the success.

It's a story of surprising depth and renewed energy.

Over the last 20 years,

Algeria, Ghana, Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria

have all established their own space agencies.

The social story of the space program in Nigeria

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