Africa’s first indigenous astronomy PhD wants to revive ‘negated’ knowledge
Growing up, Motheo Koitsiwe used to listen to his grandmother tell stories about the night sky. She spoke of selemela (the Pleiades), molalatladi (the Milky Way), mphatlalatsane (Venus), and ngwedi (the Moon). These stories were not just meant to entertain. For the ancestors of the Batswana people who live in Botswana and South Africa today, […]