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William Kamkwamba is Coming to Maker Faire Africa

July 25, 2009 4 comments

A young Malawian built a windmill from scratch to help power the lights in his rural home, his name is William Kamkwamba. We’re very excited to announce that William Kamkwamba, sponsored by his organization Moving Windmills, will be coming to Maker Faire Africa. I first met William at TED Africa two years ago in Arusha, [...]

Africa,Fabrication,Ghana

Mobile Phone Charging in Ghana

June 29, 2009 4 comments

Matt Berg over at BuildAfrica blog has an interesting story of Mr Acheampong, a local entrepreneur who makes money by charging people’s mobile phones. He uses a homemade C-cell battery setup to do this (see below): “Mr. Acheampong, one of the Abusuapanin Community Leader’s in Bonsaaso village, use’s 4 C dry cell batteries to charge [...]

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