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.

Chiwetel Ejiofor directed this lovely adaptation of William Kamkwamba's memoir, chronicling his upbringing as a young African boy who, after being forced to leave his beloved school due to his ...

The windmill Kamkwamba built is the subject of his 2007 talk, in which he describes the steps of collecting spare parts to build a multi-story structure that, once completed, could power four ...