Mulika

An 'afronaut' emerges from the wreckage of a spaceship in the volcanic crater of Mount Nyiragongo. As he descends into the city below, encountering the people of present-day Goma, he begins to understand what he must do to change the future for his people. "Maisha Maene’s poetic short film is a reference to the teacher and activist Edward Makuka Nkoloso, who in the 1960s pursued the “African Dream” of a Zambian moon mission with his “Zambia National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy”." (Afrikamera)