Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has said Africans must go to the moon in order to see what developed nations are doing up there.
“The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here,” Museveni said, addressing a meeting of the Uganda Law Society in Entebbe.
“We must also go there and say: ‘What are you people doing up here?’.”
Museveni is calling for a common East African economic and political zone, similar to the European Union, to make this happen.
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
“Uganda alone cannot go to the moon. We are too small. But East Africa united can. That is what East African integration is all about,” he said. “Then we can say to the Americans: ‘What are you doing here all alone?’.”
Negotiations to establish a tariff free trade zone including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda have been ongoing for months.
Museveni on Saturday also called for enhanced political integration among the East African nations, suggesting the region would be strengthened by becoming one country.
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NG, I saw this just this morning and wanted to post it here…
If you've ever seen Wallace & Gromit's "A Grand Day Out", you'll have an idea what Ugandan space programme might resemble.
Synopsis of film:
Wallace and his sophisticated dog Gromit have to decide where to go for their annual picnic. With a homemade rocket and large appetite they head for the moon in search of cheese. Their moon-tasting arouses the anger of a resident
mechanical caretaker. In the antics that follow the earthlings unwittingly help the robot to fulfil its dreams.
I was thinking they'd do this via giant slingshot….
I agree. To say that Africans cannot do technically sophisticated things is pure racism!
If its taken 6000 years for the blacks to work out how to roll a joint and wear a cap the wrong way round, then it will probably take another 6000 years to build and fly a simple glider let alone go into space.
Imagine the Ugandan space program's dismay when they find out that "Just building a reeeeaaaallly tall ladder during a full Moon" won't get you to the Lunar surface.
At this very moment dozens of Africans are scouring the junk yards of sub-Saharan Africa for discarded 45 gallon oil drums in the hope other Africans know someone who will be able to weld several of the drums together for the frame of the rocket.
Later, they'll flatten out several of those old galvanized steel garbage cans to be cut up and used as the fins. A bit left over will do just fine for the nose cone.
"Den we'll really be impressin' dem wite wimmens!"
I can just hear it now:
"Dat be one small pimp-step fo' a brotha, One giant electric-slide fo' da co-moon-I-tay".
Instead of "Houston, we have a problem" it will be, "Saffire! Oh, Saffire! Weez sho gots a problem here! Ova!"
lamont , they cannot do "technically sophisticated things"
it isn't racism its being realistic. unless east africa gets a large influx of german scientists, it will never happen. the average iq of a central african is 60-70, which is borderline retarded.
btw the russians never landed a man on the moon, so museveni doesn't even have a clue what he is talking about.
Just wait until they start stealing the hubcaps off the Mars Rover.
Sorry, that’s the Puerto Rican space program.
umm what?!? doing something more challenging? no "how we can?", "should we?" or something other of "pro-type". only seeing a flat line of history in africa proofs to have a short horizon caused by missing written credentials of earlier times. lowered view, lowered expection and lowered future are good friends. most important source is brain. happily that's something that's spread very uniform. presence is a sequence of past but future is a sequence of now. i hope that also anyone other will say "let's do it!". let's do it!
It truly is amazing that they want to go the moon and don't know how! After all, we're told that they built the pryamids, invented geometry, had great ,Empires, that Egypt was black and that they taught civilization to the Greeks, they Greeks stole "civilization" from them, invented writing, discovered the Americas, built working full size gliders in Egypt, and were the original men. So how come in Afrika they didn't have the wheel? Next we'll be told that they DID go to the moon, but it was a "conspiracy" that was witheld by White People. "To the moon Alice", was Ralph Kramden really black?
Eish, now my Sipho haz sumting to drim ov bekomin he. Yebo ama space ship, yebo!!!!
Yeah, there go the freaking moon property values!
I think they all should go to the moon.
You also have to question what they possibly could achieve considering their resources.
At least Wallace & Gromit brought some Wensleydale back…
Also, what will they actually achieve by going into space? The other civilized countries that have gone into space did not just go to touch the moon, but to set satellites in orbit to improve our civilizations on earth. What would they put in space, and how would it benefit them, they have no technology to speak of? Or maybe it will be a satellite system for the war lords to help them keep control of their people and the diamond fields. They could always use their comrades in China to launch that for them.
You idiots sound real dumb. The “jokes” you are trying to make aren’t even towards Africans, but to Black Americans. Two DIFFERENT cultures. And if the east African nations were to unite it would be highly possible, being that Africa is the wealthiest nation in natural resources.
Absolutely Pes088, except for a few things.
Africa is not a nation, it’s a continent. We won’t go into tribal issues, as it is clear you already have a problem with the concept of nation as opposed to continent.
With all of the wealth of Africa, it still remains in poverty, because the only resource Africa can apply properly is the ability to produce dictators so corrupt they starve their own people to death. Or literally eat them in the worst cases.
So how you go from starving nations in Africa ruled by corrupt dictators to not only tribes, but nations working together in space programmes, only you will know.
It was only when Europeans came in and brought civilizaton to the dark continent that they found out that they had resources! What did they do with them for thousands of years? Ans: nothing! Why did science come into being with the Greeks? Where was Afrikan “science”? Will they have a witch doctor make some incantation for them to go to the moon? Instead of nonsense, they should be doing something to stop the war and starvation and disease in Afrika. Oh, and can anyone name an Afrikan Dr. Albert Schwitzer?
yes yes, please excuse my mistakes, but all in all i do agree that Africa breeds corrupt leaders, but if Uganda was to form an alliance with the east African countries, Africa will be on the right path of Development. I am not a supporter of this space program, there’s more important issues in Africa that have to be dealt with..ex: poverty, education, health care
They can coat their “rocket” with mud as a heat shield.
What are they using for fuel? Animal urine?
I guess the monkeys can stay behind and run Mission Control while the trained chimps go up in space.
I saw something about Africans having low IQ's… is this an African IQ test, or an American IQ test they're taking? I'm willing to bet that if you took an African IQ test, you'd be considered retarded.
I'm sure you boys know how to navigate a starbucks, or get to a Banana Republic, but you wouldn't survive 2 hours in East Africa. Lol, who cares, though… as long as you can use technology to hide youre 'true' barbaric, caveman nature, "it's all good". Lol.
Wees black peoples invented da moon you cracka muthafuckas.