Monday - October 05, 2009

Category Image Creating Windmills in Malawi. 


 William KamKwamba lives in Malawi, in a tiny village where there is nothing.  But rather than accept that, he created something.  He created a windmill from trash and discarded junk.  He's a good engineer.



What makes this even more interesting to me is the fact that someone is bringing him to the US or some other place to get a formal education.  I'm very happy for him, and he should take advantage of everything he can get.

But what does this mean to the rest of Malawi, to his family, to his village?  After getting a modern education and becoming valuable to the modern world, why on Earth would or should he go back to living in a village that didn't otherwise have the brains or initiative to make windmills a long time ago?

I'm very happy for him, but I wonder if the rest of the world will be modernized if the best and brightest are whisked away?

It doesn't matter, I guess.  I'd never want him to be stuck anywhere.  And the people of Malawi now have an example to follow to escape their condition.  I hope they do.  I've been to other parts of Africa and their poverty is of their own making and ignorance.  


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