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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.07 — 33,318 ratings — published 2009
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.97 — 58,635 ratings — published 2001
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,273 ratings — published 2009
The Lower River (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,027 ratings — published 2012
soft magic. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,658 ratings — published 2015
The Heaven Shop (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,251 ratings — published 2004
The Jive Talker: An Artist's Genesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.64 — 97 ratings — published 2008
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,036 ratings — published 2011
Venture to the Interior (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.79 — 321 ratings — published 1952
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,109 ratings — published 2002
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,019 ratings — published 2018
No Easy Task (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 6 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.59 — 17 ratings — published 1966
And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.32 — 44 ratings — published 2011
Laugh with the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,148 ratings — published 2012
Of Chameleons and Gods (African Writers Series)
by (shelved 5 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.98 — 42 ratings — published 1981
Smouldering Charcoal (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.02 — 197 ratings — published 1992
a fire like you (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.90 — 695 ratings — published 2020
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.91 — 317 ratings — published 1994
The Bird Boy's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published 2002
The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.14 — 35 ratings — published 1993
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,035 ratings — published
Fearless Fighter: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.89 — 37 ratings — published 2007
From Microsoft to Malawi: Learning on the Front Lines as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.72 — 36 ratings — published 2010
Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing (African Writers Series)
by (shelved 3 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2002
Thin Air: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,380 ratings — published 2016
Mother of Malawi: She created an oasis of love in a country of orphans (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.93 — 59 ratings — published 2013
Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.14 — 64 ratings — published 2023
Walking for Water: How One Boy Stood Up for Gender Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.08 — 170 ratings — published
As Big as the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published
Malawi A Place Apart (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.02 — 46 ratings — published
Water and Witchcraft - Three Years in Malawi (Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 2013
Malawi in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1989
The Story of Medicine and Disease in Malawi: The 130 Years Since Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Nyasaland: Land of the Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1958
A History of Malawi: 1859-1966 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 2012
The Detainee (African Writers Series ; 162)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.92 — 24 ratings — published 1988
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,788 ratings — published 2002
For Honour and other stories (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 2011
I Will Try (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.34 — 118 ratings — published 2013
Jungle Lovers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.31 — 216 ratings — published 1971
Napolo and the Python (African Writers Series)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 1994
Skipping Without Ropes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.25 — 12 ratings — published 1999
Across the Footsteps of Africa: The Experiences of an Ecuadorian Doctor in Malawi and Mozambique (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as malawi)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 1998
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as malawi)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,489 ratings — published 1976
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as malawi)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,161 ratings — published 2024
William Kamkwamba (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 128)
by (shelved 1 time as malawi)
avg rating 4.15 — 55 ratings — published 2025
“Inside the maize mill, the owners no longer had any use for a broom. The hungry people kept the floors cleaner than a wet mop. At the beginning of the month, the mill was packed full of those waiting for fallen scraps. The crowd would part long enough to allow women to pass with their pails of grain. As the machine rumbled and spit a white cloud of flour into the pails, the multitude of old people, women, and children watched intently with eyes dancing like butterflies. Once the pail was pulled away, they themselves on hands and knees and scooped the floor clean. Afterward, old women would rattle their walking sticks up inside the grinder as if ringing a bell, collecting the loose flour that drifted to the floor.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“Your Excellency," [Chief Wimbe] said, turning to face the president. "I'd like to congratulate you not only for what you've done in Malawi, but all across the great continent of Africa. We're having about all the things you're doing in Congo and how you'd had success. We're very proud of our president. But please understand, we're also at war here in Malawi, and that war is against hunger."
He then asked the president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because really, how can you use the toilet if you never eat?)
[...]
Shortly after, when the president got up to talk, several well-dressed officials approached Gilbert's father and asked to speak with him. Knowing the president's habit of giving handouts, the chief became excited. They're giving us money. My speech must've worked.
About six men led the chief behind a building near the stage, and once there, they confronted him.
"In what capacity were you speaking such nonsense?" one asked, looking very angry.
Before Chief Wimbe could answer, they knocked him to the ground and began beating him with clubs and batons.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
He then asked the president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because really, how can you use the toilet if you never eat?)
[...]
Shortly after, when the president got up to talk, several well-dressed officials approached Gilbert's father and asked to speak with him. Knowing the president's habit of giving handouts, the chief became excited. They're giving us money. My speech must've worked.
About six men led the chief behind a building near the stage, and once there, they confronted him.
"In what capacity were you speaking such nonsense?" one asked, looking very angry.
Before Chief Wimbe could answer, they knocked him to the ground and began beating him with clubs and batons.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
