Dowa Essays

Inventor, hero, and hard worker, are three things that describe William Kamkwamba. Many people know that William Kamkwamba is an inventor for his African village, but he was so much more. As a well known inventor, William Kamkwamba inspired kids to do what they have a dream to be and try to make that goal. He left a lasting legacy as a great well-known kid who invented windmills out tools that he had in front of him. Early life on William Kamkwamba was really hard for him. First, his parents

Living without electricity would be a struggle to most. Not having your phone fully charged will have today’s teenager in a tantrum. In places around the world, they need electricity just for things that we take for granite, like light. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a book of William Kamkwamba’s life in present day Wimbe, Malawi, Africa. At the age of fourteen he battled through outrages poverty, hunger, lack of public education and an insufficient amount of motivation from others to build a

Despite the careless mood that modern Japanese have towards the existence of Ainu community, the Ainu activists not only are striving for the removal of discrimination and improvement of living standards but are also rejecting douwa (assimilation) “in favor of a distinct identity as indigenous people and the revitalization of Ainu culture and language” (Siddle, 2011) Ainu ancestors have been residing in Hokkaido ever since the full-scale colonization in 1869 and their descendants can be found in