William Kamkwamba grew up in Malawi, the son of a maize and tobacco farmer. Their house had no electricity or plumbing. In William’s village, high costs and frequent power outages made ...

The story of William Kamkwamba, aka "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind," is true, but it isn't new and has been extensively covered in the media. David Emery Published Aug. 26, 2016 ...

Case in point: the story of intrepid Malawi youth William Kamkwamba who, despite having no formal education or training, recently engineered and built a windmill to power his house.

William Kamkwamba fits a lightbulb to a house in his village in Malawi. His native Malawi had gone through one of its worst droughts seven years ago, killing thousands. His family and others were ...

Last night [Jon Stewart] interviewed [William Kamkwamba] on The Daily Show. [William] is the young man from Malawi who at the age of 14 built a windmill generator out of discarded items. Now at 22 … ...

William Kamkwamba, a Malawian inventor who as a child built a wind turbine to power home appliances in his rural village gained fame as the subject of the book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and ...

William Kamkwamba gained fame as a child inventor when at age 14 he used blue gum trees, bicycle parts and scrapyard materials to build a wind turbine that powered domestic appliances in his ...

That’s the remarkable story of William Kamkwamba that’s told in the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. ... that powered lights in his family’s house all by the young age of fifteen.

Some people see lemons and make lemonade. William Kamkwamba saw wind and made a windmill. This might not seem like a mighty feat. But Kamkwamba, who grew up in Masitala, a tiny rural farming ...

William Kamkwamba found power, literally and metaphorically, through adversity. When he was just 14 years old, he created a windmill using spare parts to provide electricity to his African village.

William Kamkwamba grew up in Malawi, the son of a maize and tobacco farmer. Their house had no electricity or plumbing. In William’s village, high costs and frequent power outages made ...