The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Common Text 2019-2020)

Chiwetel Ejiofor discusses the importance of Diversity and how adapting books such as The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind can increase awareness of different cultures and promote global awareness.

"I FEEL SO CHANGED AS A PERSON THROUGH THIS process," says Chiwetel Ejiofor of his directorial debut, "The BoyWhoHarnessed the Wind." The Netflix feature film is an adaptation of the 2009 autobiography by William Kamkwamba, a Malawian engineer. "What will be interesting will be to go back into work purely as an actor and register how that's different without that sense of full ownership of a project."

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At the age of 13, Kamkwamba built a wind turbine to power a few electrical appliances in his family's house in Wimbe, Kasungu using blue gum trees, bicycle parts and materials collected from an indigenous scrapyard. The movie has been inspired by a book, 'The BoyWhoHarnessed the Wind' authored by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer published by Harper Collins Publishers in 2007. Hollywood Daily online magazine, last week reported that '12 Years a Slave' star, Chiwetel Ejiofor directed the movie. Ejiofor said he was enthused by the book and wanted get the entire sense of it.

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