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William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Review)
I loved reading this memoir, a wonderfully written story about William Kamkwamba from Malawi who built a windmill out of scraps to help his family at times of famine. And by scraps I mean blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard.
William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
I read up on his story after reading this book, and he has since built a solar-powered water pump that supplies the first drinking water in his village! But when he was ejected from public school at 14 because his family couldn’t afford, his life seemed destined for the planting fields and back-breaking labor of his father, an impoverished maize and tobacco grower. Even that fate fell into question when drought and severe famine struck Malawi, one of Africa’s poorest nations, in 2001 and 2002.
If you love the topic of Physics, you’ll love this book even more because it explains the construction of the windmill in the most layman of terms possible.
This is William Kamkwamba’s blog.
GALLIVANTER’S VERDICT: 8/10
Sounds inspiring. I shall look out for it one of these days
its so hard to come across good books these days, i’ve got some bad buys before and i dont like it at all, and sometimes i doubt those advertorial style review in magazines/newspapers too, so this is definitely a refreshing option from you, haha! thanks for sharing!!!
Yeah, I’ve read a couple of duds until I came across this one.