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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba

  • FINISHED
  • Finished December 2021
  • First published 2009

memoir

Kamkwamba, a teenager in a Malawi village hit by famine, taught himself physics from library books.   He built a working windmill from scrap to power lights in his family’s home.