One of my earliest memories is looking at the moon as a child in Nairobi, Kenya, and wondering, “Why is the moon following me?” Space became the ultimate canvas for my curiosity.
The moment that transformed that curiosity into a mission came in 2011, when I watched the final space shuttle launch live in Florida. Surrounded by launch infrastructure, I remember asking, “Why don’t we have this in Africa?” That question never left me.
Today, as an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and Ph.D. candidate specializing in space infrastructure and interplanetary logistics at the University of Florida, my mission is to ensure that the next generation of African children can look at the sky and know they have the infrastructure to reach it from their own continent.
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