William Kamkwamba at the TED Summit in June 2007. It’s a good thing to provide your family with electricity by building a wind-mill; it’s down right impressive thing when you do it at 14, in a village in Malawi, using nothing but scraps of metal and a bicyle frame. It’s this ‘act now, ask questions later’ mind set that will steer the creative economy in Malawi and other African countries.