Believe it or not, the African version of MacGyver had been
found a few years ago. How does he compare to the American named Angus
MacGyver?
By: Ringo Bones
Believe it or not, the African version of MacGyver had been
found by TV presenter Jon Stewart in an interview with one of his hosts. Back
in October 7, 2009 one of the guests on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart named
William Kamkwamba who pitched a book titled The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind –
about Kamkwamba’s his experience as a 14-year-old
boy in Malawi who created his very own wind generator using “junk” – i.e.
disused building materials.
TV host Jon Stewart then quipped during the course of the
interview that the closest America has to the 14-year-old boy from Malawi who
built his own wind generator was the fictional TV series character named
MacGyver who uses readily available materials to solve immediate problems he
currently faces – most of then life-or-death problems needing timely solutions
worthy of an action-packed TV series. Unfortunately for America, the real-life
MacGyver this time is a 14-year-old boy from Malawi who made his own wind
generator using disused construction materials and with an ad hoc circuit
breaker made up of surplus iron nails. Maybe William Kamkwamba will from that
moment on be nicknamed “Mac Kamkwamba" everytime he visits the United States.
