two years ago i stood on the ted stage in arusha tanzania i spoke very briefly about one of my proudest creations
it was a simple machine that changed my life before that time i had never been away from my home
i had never used a computer i had never seen an internet on the stage
i was so nervous my english lost i wanted to
i had never been surrounded by so many azungu white people
was a story i wouldn't tell you then but well i'm feeling good right now i would like to share that story today we have seven children in my family all sisters excepting me
this is me with my dad when i was a little boy before i discovered the wonders of science i was just a simple farmer in a
and one we experienced an awful famine within five months all malawians began to starve to
my family ate one meal per day at night only three swallows of nsima for each one of us the food passes through our bodies we drop down to nothing
in malawi the secondary school you have to pay school fees because of the hunger i was forced to drop out of school
i looked at my father and looked at those dry fields it was the future i couldn't
i felt very happy to be at the secondary school so i was determined to do anything possible to receive education so i went to
i read books science books especially physics i couldn't read english that well i used diagrams and pictures to
another book put that knowledge in my hands it said a windmill could pump water and generate
which we were experiencing by that time
so i decided i would build one windmill for myself but i didn't have materials to use so i went to a
where i found my materials many people including my mother said i was
i found a tractor fan shock absorber pvc pipes using a bicycle frame and an old bicycle dynamo i built my
it was one light at first and then four lights with switches and even a circuitbreaker modeled after an
another machine pumps water for irrigation queues of people start lining up at my
to charge their mobile phone
i had never seen an airplane before i had never slept in a hotel so on stage that day in arusha my english
i said something like i tried and i made it so i would like to say something to all the people out there
you will watch this on the internet i say to you trust yourself and believe whatever happens don't give up thank you
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