Bovine Astronauta,

Nashulai, 2024

The Maasai creation tale begins when the god, Enkai gave his third son a long herder’s stick and a rope by which cattle slid down to earth from space, a cosmo-logic that de-seats human centrality and dominance and introduces narratives of non human mastery in space based journeying. It reveals the bias inherent in western frameworks that place human intelligence, and indeed foregrounds types of intelligence that displays imperial ambition and colonial desire as the bench mark of intelligence in the search for extra terrestrial life.