William Kamkwamba, "an African solution, to an African problem"*

William Kamkwamba told his story alongside the journalist Bryan Mealer who wrote the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind." Kamkwamba is a 2007 and 2009 TEDGlobal Fellow for creating a windmill that generated electricity for his village in central Malawi. At the time he was a self taught physiscist and made the windmill out of scraps from a junk yard. Listen to him and Mealer talk about how Kamkwamba did this and how he has improved the lives of his family and neighbors after a severe draught in 200o and 2oo1.