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By: Wind blowing | TransportEsjmgarcia

Wind blowing | TransportEsjmgarcia — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:05:56 +0000

[...] …My heart’s in Accra » A new wind blowing in AfricaFind your favorite picture now and simply checkout and download directly to your computer! Great results are both Fun & Easy with CoolClips! This section focuses on Wind, Blow, Breez … cloud blowing wind Vector Clip Art picture… [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

…My heart’s in Accra » The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:07:07 +0000

[...] story. I was in the audience at the TED Global conference in Arusha, Tanzania when William took the stage to introduce himself and the remarkable windmill he’d built at his fami…. Like dozens of others in the audience, I was moved first to laughter, and then to tears by [...]

By: Where are the African Designers? [Part 2] - Appfrica

Where are the African Designers? [Part 2] - Appfrica — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:34:32 +0000

[...] since gone on to offer power to other parts of his village with two similar windmills. He stole the show in 2007 at TED Africa and he continues to do remarkable things in both tech and [...]

By: Burning Silo » Blog Archive » wind power

Burning Silo » Blog Archive » wind power — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:23:41 +0000

[...] Whether or not you’re interested in wind power, this story from My heart’s in Accra blog is so upbeat, that I think just about everyone will enjoy [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » Something to chew on: TED talks posted online

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:36:59 +0000

[...] up an hour’s explorations with William Kamkwamba’s talk. William, you may remember, is a remarkable Malawian inventor, who built his first windmill at age 14, working from a diagram in a library book, and provided [...]

By: Webster

Webster — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:52:50 +0000

I have discovered something puzzling about this story.

If you visit Mr. Kamkwamba’s blog page, http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2007/07/schools-out-in-.html, dated July, 15, 2007, you can read about his having received books from a teacher:

“Mrs. Maclean gave me several books to study before school begins, including an English Grammar textbook, a Geometry textbook and workbook, and several novels including The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane. I’m reading it with The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary close by, as I’m a bit out of practice with reading. I like having books of my own. In many schools in Malawi, there are not enough books for every child to have his or her own.”

In this post, you can also see a photo of the books he received. Strangely, it is exactly the same stack of books seen sitting on the bed in this post, dated June 20, 2007.

What I find strange is that in his own blog, Mr. Kamkwamba claims to have received the books in July, however, the books appear in this blog from a post in June.

I, too, am very inspired by Mr. Kamkwamba, and I would hope that those sharing his story would never exploit him unknowningly.

By: Mary Ann Taylor

Mary Ann Taylor — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:31:35 +0000

Bwana Asifiwe William!!

By: Africa Roundup « David McQueen

Africa Roundup « David McQueen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:53:31 +0000

[...] Hash comments on blogging platforms in South Africa and Kenya. Benin gets the Zambian Presidents views on Aid vs Trade. Emeka brings another angle to the table on the same debate. And yet another word on the issue from the Anansi Chronicles. Juliana lends some support to Bono over the African Vanity Fair issue. In Timbuktu Chronicles Emeka writes about Human ATM’s. Innovation!! Ethan waxes lyrical on wind power and finally Afrigadget reports on the knife sharpening bicycle in Nairobi. [...]

By: Shawn Fumo

Shawn Fumo — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:59:08 +0000

Thanks so much for this blog. I don’t think I’ve seen a single mention of TED in the american media (maybe I just missed it, but I wouldn’t be surprised at total absence).

I think William’s story should be inspirational to almost anyone. If he can do so much with so little, it says a lot about the people out there who are at a loss if their shirt rips or something. Thank goodness there seems to be some resurgence of “make culture” here lately, though it has a long way to go.

But in William’s case specifically, I really hope his design and story spreads wide. With all the talk of how effective different kinds of aid really are, that seems like a perfect example of how a little thing could make a big impact. More aid in terms of teaching basic electronics, providing cheap small parts, etc seem like they could do a lot.

Anyway, thanks for providing all the information to people like me who are a world away and who wouldn’t otherwise know much of what was going on over there.

By: A Blog Around The Clock

A Blog Around The Clock — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:08:52 +0000

An Inspiring Story!…

I dropped by Anton’s blog as I tend to do every day and saw something that caught my eye in his side-bar SugarCubes – an amazing story about William Kamkwamba, a 19 year old boy in Malawi who had to……