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.

Power was scarce in William Kamkwamba's home country of Malawi, so he decided to collect his own energy. The windmill Kamkwamba built is the subject of his 2007 talk, in which he describes the ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor directed this lovely adaptation of William Kamkwamba's memoir, chronicling his upbringing ... sets about constructing a windmill that he hopes will save his community from famine.