The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)
Rural electrification
Windmills
Starvation
Electric power production
Africa
Electricity
Inventors
Rural conditions
New York Times bestseller
William Kamkwamba was fourteen years old when famine came to his small town in Malawi, a small country in Africa. When his father couldn't afford to send him to school, he visited a library and started reading about electricity. When he learned that a generator and a motor have the same parts, he at…
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