Malawi-born William Kamkwamba has become something of a celebrity, thanks in part to his book deal (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind) and TED talk and movie. Yet the young man’s responses on ...

A lovely and thoughtful family film, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” is a far cry from Marvel multiplex-ity. But once viewers (of all ages) adjust to its quiet and respectful approach ...

The Malawi native recounted his dedication and quest for knowledge in his best-selling memoir, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, in 2009. His country’s ...

William Kamkwamba, the Malawian co-author of “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” and a public speaker whose TED talk has more than 3 million views, visited the school to dedicate a windmill he ...

Although it was first published in 2009, the ideas imparted in “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope” are increasingly relevant today. That’s one reason ...

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 ...

William Kamkwamba is a 13-year-old living with his family in rural Malawi. After a famine forces him to leave school, William sets his exceptional mind to coming up with a solution. Show more ...

In Ivan’s Childhood, master filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal début feature, we see an illuminating image of a boy playing by the beach and sunlight, being traumatised by the memories of ...

"The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" (2019), a film adaptation of Kamkwamba's autobiographical book of the same title, dedicates the first half of its narrative piecing together the harsh realities of ...

That’s the remarkable story of William Kamkwamba that’s told in the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Remarkable because it culminates with his building a windmill (more correctly called a ...