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ninjakiwi12 's review for:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Fun(ny) fact(s): Summer reading challenge Bingo with the Dayspring youth #20: a book about a place I have not visited!
Favorite quote/image: "A quote I read recently from the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that says, 'If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.' We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward. My fellow students and I talk about creating a new kind of Africa, a place of leaders instead of victims, a home of innovation rather than charity." (pg. 285-286)
Honorable mention: "This was the same forest where I'd been convinced I'd been bewitched by the bubble gum man, the same forest where I'd accepted magic and been defeated, and now I was back there to cut down trees to build a ladder to science and creation–something greater and more real than any magic in the land." (pg. 199)
Why: Kamkwamba's memoir was a childhood favorite of mine as I was inspired by his story of innovation, love for his family, and perseverance in the face of extreme harship, all made possible with STEM books from a local free library, junk yard scraps, the help of his friends, amd his engineering mind. From being forced to drop out of a school during a national famine to giving a speech at a TED conference, Kamkwamba never loses his grounding in his family's sustenance farm in Kasungu, Malawi, his belief in the power of dreams, and the untapped potential of African ingenuity.
Favorite quote/image: "A quote I read recently from the great Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that says, 'If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.' We must encourage those still struggling to keep moving forward. My fellow students and I talk about creating a new kind of Africa, a place of leaders instead of victims, a home of innovation rather than charity." (pg. 285-286)
Honorable mention: "This was the same forest where I'd been convinced I'd been bewitched by the bubble gum man, the same forest where I'd accepted magic and been defeated, and now I was back there to cut down trees to build a ladder to science and creation–something greater and more real than any magic in the land." (pg. 199)
Why: Kamkwamba's memoir was a childhood favorite of mine as I was inspired by his story of innovation, love for his family, and perseverance in the face of extreme harship, all made possible with STEM books from a local free library, junk yard scraps, the help of his friends, amd his engineering mind. From being forced to drop out of a school during a national famine to giving a speech at a TED conference, Kamkwamba never loses his grounding in his family's sustenance farm in Kasungu, Malawi, his belief in the power of dreams, and the untapped potential of African ingenuity.