by William Kamkwamba | Jun 23, 2007 | General
WednesdayOn Wednesday I visited a Solar and Wind Power dealer in the commercial trading area of Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi, about 2 and 1/2 hours south of my home. I was looking for deep discharge batteries to replace the car battery I’ve been using to...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 23, 2007 | General
The deep discharge batteries I have been waiting for since Tuesday arrived today at Solair, the solar and wind power dealer in Lilongwe that has been so helpful. Solair’s proprietor, Hamant, who has been incredibly helpful, with me. Elias, my friend from...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 20, 2007 | General
Here is the first article from the Malawi’s The Daily Times, November 20, 2006. Sangwani has now left the Daily Times to work at a media NGO that promotes freedom of the press called Media Institute of Southern Africa or MISA. School dropout invents windmill...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 20, 2007 | General
On Saturday I visited a Malawian NGO called Baobab Health. They work to automate the process of caring for patients in the Malawian health care system. My friends Mike, Peter and Soyapi work there. Here, Peter is showing me a stronger motor from a treadmill that I...
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 20, 2007 | General
onstage with Chris Anderson, TED’s curator I was invited to attend the TEDGlobal conference June 4-7, 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania as one of 100 fellows by Emeka Okafor, a prominent Nigerian blogger (The Timbuktu Chronicles) and program director of the conference....
by William Kamkwamba | Jun 19, 2007 | General
Here is my family at home on our farm.
