ICCAL » Malawi

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Book Importer — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:57:02 +0000

When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba’s Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone’s crops began to fail. His family didn’t have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps. Several years later he figured out how to use the windmill for irrigation purposes.

Chewa

Book Importer — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:02:07 +0000

This book presents the history, culture, art, and economics of the Chewa people of Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique.

City Boy

Book Importer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:01:02 +0000

Set in contemporary Malawi, a poignant account of an orphaned boy’s transition from city life to village life. Sam’s widowed mother has died from “the Disease,” and Sam is claimed by his aunt Mercy, who lives in the small African village where Sam’s mother was born and raised. The gap between Sam’s life in the city, where he had his own room, attended private school, and used a computer, and his new life in the dirt-floored one-room hut, which he is to share with his aunt and cousins, is vast beyond imagining. Grief, loneliness, and the absence of everything familiar make for a rocky transition to a traditional culture where possessions count for little and everyone is expected to do his or her share.

Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS

Yoo Kyung Sung — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:29:27 +0000

In Malawi and Zambia, children who have lost family to the AIDS pandemic tell their stories. This book is about the power of the human spirits to endure and hope for a better tommorrow.

The Heaven Shop

Kathy G. Short — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:08:48 +0000

Binti and her siblings struggle to survive when they are split up and sent to different parts of Malawi after their parents die of AIDS.