by William Kamkwamba | Sep 1, 2009 | General
Original article here:Photo: White African/FlickrWilliam Kamkwamba made a name for himself in the green world a few years ago when he built a homemade wind turbine to provide power to his home in his small Malawian village. He built it...
by William Kamkwamba | Sep 1, 2009 | General
Amazon.com choose the book I wrote with Bryan Mealer, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as one of their seven Best Books of the Month. This is a real honor for me. The book will be on sale less than one month in the United States and then start coming out in other...
by William Kamkwamba | Aug 22, 2009 | General
Today I built a windmill with high school students at the open air science fair called Labfest. It was really great talking with all the families with children who stopped by to learn about wind energy. This article is from yesterday's abc7news.comThursday, August...
by William Kamkwamba | Aug 17, 2009 | General
I was lucky enough to be invited to attend and speak at Maker Faire Africa in Accra, Ghana. The conference took place August 14th to 16th. There were about 100 people there and so many of them shared my interest in inventing low-cost solutions to African engineering...
by William Kamkwamba | Jul 24, 2009 | General
Original blog post is here. TED posted some comments from Twitter. They are really kind.William Kamkwamba spoke at TEDGlobal 2007, as a shy young man who'd built his family a windmill from scrap. His story captured the world's attention. Today he walked...