My Friend Bryan Mealer And I Are Writing a Book!

This is a picture of my best friend and Bryan Mealer when he came to visit me in Malawi. He and I are writing a book together about my life. He's a great writer. This is a little bit about him: "Bryan Mealer was the Associated Press staff

My Exhibit at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago

This is my exhibit at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, called Fast Forward...Inventing the Future. It tells the story of how I made the windmill in Malawi. I am very happy to see this exhibit in the museum, and I hope it will encourage other

My Friend Bryan Mealer And I Are Writing a Book!

This is a picture of my best friend and Bryan Mealer when he came to visit me in Malawi. He and I are writing a book together about my life. He's a great writer. This is a little bit about him: "Bryan Mealer was the Associated Press staff

My Friend Dan Shine and the AMD team at World Economic Forum

I first met Dan Shine at TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania in June 2007. He has been incredibly supportive and helpful ever since, kindly donating my first computer (AMD powered, of course!) and providing an OLPC for the young children in my village. Later, OLPC gave us more of them.

Spending the Week in Capetown with Oma Obama, Barack Obama's Keny

During the World Economic Forum, I spent a lot of my time with Dan Shine's AMD team and their guests,including Auma Obama, Barack Obama's Kenyan half-sister.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Capetown, South Africa

I spoke at a panel moderated by Dan Shine, Vice President of AMD's 50x15 initiative, an effort to connect half the world's population to the Internet by 2015 about Technology in Emerging Countries. Dan showed the short film produced about my story before the panel and then

Meeting the President of My Country, Bingu wa Mutharika

On June 3, 2008, I dined with the president of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika and about 20 other people at a private dinner at the World Economic Forum Africa meeting. It was very exciting to meet him, although we didn't have much time to talk one on

My friend and co-author Bryan Mealer's book All Things Must Fight

Bringing an OLPC XO Laptop to Malawi

Here is an article from the AMD 50x15 foundation newsletter. Dan Shine and Daniel Hanrahan and their team generously donated an OLPC XO Laptop to me during my trip to America. I brought it to my former primary school where my sisters still attend.  Since then, OLPC's chairman Nicholas

Learning to Swim

the pool at ABCCA Tomorrow Monday I start swimming lessons at my high school, ABCCA. Even though I live only one hour from one of the largest lakes in Africa, I've only been there twice (both times in the last six months) and I'm ready