Summary: The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

The unknown. There is a certain and undefinable discomfort knowing that one has no control or power in the face of it. How does the human race cope? It simply comes up with answers, whether they be based on fact or purely fiction from the minds of people who don’t know differently. In places like the U.S., a science-based society has provided many answers to which all people can access, due to the internet and easily accessible education. However, in places like Malawi, where William Kamkwamba lives, the land is filled with farmers, secondary education is as rare as it is expensive, and the internet is a mystery to citizens. They don’t have answers to how the world works sitting right in front of them, so much of their culture is based around magic. That is, until things begin to change when Kamkwamba introduced wind power …show more content…
Through William Kamkwamba’s expression of where his country's allegiance lies, how science could be received in his experience, and where hardships disrupted progress, the conflicts between the magic and science became clear. They come from the same place of wanting to explain what is not understood, but it is this that is truly the cause for the conflict, for when one thing explained by science and and other explained by magic are applied to the same situation in a desire to understand, one must win over. With this, it is hard to move forward into a world of science where humans have control and a well defined world, and away from a world explained to be controlled by magic. How does a society move forward? Slowly, with small introductions, like, say, a