I saw Chiwetel Ejiofor on Graham Norton discussing the film (now on Netflix) and I thought I'd read the book. It's really more of a growing up in Africa memoir; the windmill doesn't come up until over 150 pages into it, so if you only want that, then start in the middle. Lots of detail about village life in Malawi, including famine and near death, some of it shocking. His ingenuity is something - learning from library books and scavenging materials for the windmill. He finally winds up giving a TED talk. Started a bit slow, but goes really fast once he starts on the windmill.
Oddly, the book and movie are pitched that he makes the windmill to save them from famine (via a water pump), but that doesn't happen in the book. He uses the windmill to generate electricity, but has no pump or parts to make one, so he wires lights for the house, and a socket to power a radio or to charge cell phones.
Oddly, the book and movie are pitched that he makes the windmill to save them from famine (via a water pump), but that doesn't happen in the book. He uses the windmill to generate electricity, but has no pump or parts to make one, so he wires lights for the house, and a socket to power a radio or to charge cell phones.
the hands that guide me are invisible