OOU Student To Be The First Black African To Travel To Space

A Nigerian Student, Freeman Osonuga has been
shortlisted as one of the lucky human beings to
travel to space.
Osonuga, a medicine and surgery graduate from
Olabisi Onabanjo University, was selected through
the Rising Star programme, which was launched at
the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin.
The programme invited both One Young World
ambassadors and outstanding members of the
public aged 18-30 to nominate themselves to take
on the trip of a lifetime.
If selected for the programme one will not only
embark on a once in a lifetime flight to space but
will also be offered a three-year management
contract.
He will be the first black African to fly to space.
Osonuga is a 2015 WIRED Innovation fellow. He will
be speaking live on stage at the WIRED 2015
conference in October in London.
In late 2014, at the peak of the Ebola epidemic in
West Africa, he worked as a volunteer worked with
the African Union team of Ebola responders for 6
months in Sierra Leone.