William Kamkwamba in his own Words

2009
10.28

I was just a farmer in a country of poor farmers.  Like everyone else, we grew maize. In 2001 we experienced an awful famine.  Within five months, all Malawians started to starve to death.  We ate one meal a day at night.  We drooped down to nothing.

I was determined to get an education.  I used diagrams and pictures to learn the words around them. “Wind mill could pump water and generate electricity.  Pump water meant irrigation, a defence against hunger which we were experiencing at that time. So I decided to build one for myself.”

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