Biography
Adaeze Okafor appears in two shots and carries one of the album's oldest objects. On the morning of the launch she walks out onto the spaceport plain with the crowds, stops her daughter on the way to the shuttle, and presses into her hand the photograph of four people at a small table in a half-built dome: Lena, Mikhail, James and Yuki at the first meal on Sol 1. It has passed through every generation of the family since, from the dome where it was taken to the museum case, and now to a starship.
Then she stands on the plain holding her granddaughter's hand while the shuttle climbs into a blue sky, and that is her part done. Her name, like James Okafor's, comes from Nigeria, a thread of Earth carried down three centuries of Martians.
