Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, Bryan Mealer: Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2009, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Sept. 27, 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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978-0-06-193770-5
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William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to his village and change his life and the lives of those around him. His neighbors may have mocked him and called him misala-crazy-but William was determined to show them what a little grit and ingenuity could do.Enchanted by the workings of electricity as a boy, William had a goal to study science in Malawi's top boarding schools. But in 2002, his country was stricken with a famine that left his family's farm devastated and his parents destitute. Unable to pay the eighty-dollar-a-year tuition for his education, William was …

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Subjects

  • Inventors
  • Water-supply, rural
  • Windmills
  • Electric power production
  • Rural electrification
  • Water-supply, africa
  • Africa, rural conditions