William Kamkwamba
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about William Kamkwamba, a young boy from Africa (a self-taught engineer) who had become ‘famous’ for teaching himself how to build a windmill for his family. His TED video (3 minutes long) has just been released.
When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Kamkwamba, now 19, tells a moving story of ingenuity and adaptation, and shares his dreams for the future. This talk inspired outpourings of support from the TED community and in the blogosphere.
This is well worth watching.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Hey,
we just came to stop by to find what you got on your blog. We didn’t know anything about William Kamkwamba. We think he is a great man so can we know more about him?