Malawi

Books in this genre are set in or about Malawi.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Lower River: A Riveting Literary Thriller – Peace Corps Dream Becomes African Nightmare of Survival
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The Jive Talker: An Artist's Genesis
The Heaven Shop
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Venture to the Interior
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
No Easy Task
The Bird Boy's Song
Laugh with the Moon
Smouldering Charcoal

William Kamkwamba
With the money my mother earned from selling cakes, my father cut a deal with Mangochi and bought one pail of maize. My mother took it to the mill, saved half the flour for us, and used the rest for more cakes. We did this every day, taking enough to eat and selling the rest. It was enough to provide our one blob of nsima each night, along with some pumpkin leaves. It was practically nothing, yet knowing it would be there somehow made the hunger less painful. "As long as we can stay in busines ...more
William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba
In better times, we're celebrate Christmas Eve by attending the nativity play at the Catholic church down the road, watching Joseph and Mary and Baby Jesus try to escape from Herod's soldiers and their wooden swords and AK-47s (it wasn't the most accurate version, but it was funny.) ...more
William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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