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Launching African youth's dream into space

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"Art tells stories. So, even if I couldn't go to space to tell a story to others, my work is already there. It is already telling my story," said Prosper Oshoname Dania, a Nigerian college student whose painting was exhibited on China's Tiangong space station on Wednesday.

Dania is one of 10 African youths whose paintings were sent by the Shenzhou-16 mission to the Chinese space station at the end of May.

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