The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Analysis

This location/period of time is best known for their vast cultural diverseness, but is mainly rooted around family and one’s ethnic group. To keep their culture alive the people of Africa use art, music, and oral literature to pass traditions from generation to generation. The high number of subcultures results in hundreds of languages, as well as dialects within those languages across the continent. Even though all of those languages are used, only elven are officially seen by the government ("Countries," n.d.). Since Africa’s cities and tribes stand alone in their political practices there is no one representation of government. This results in domestic political concerns of the solidity of the state. All of this contributes as Africa being

This innovation represents STEM because the young man was able to design a manufacturing system for portable LED lamps that could be recharged by sunlight using technology, science, mathematics and critical thinking. This topic/innovation is important because less than twenty percent of the whole population has access to electricity, so his invention gives people a chance to better their life by being able to increase economic opportunities and help children study. This situation is similar to the same story as we just finished reading in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Both men were driven by their families and community to make a better life for people. The innovation fits within our Group’s Geographic/Time period because the creator is from Kenya and this is also where his company is based. The year was 2010 when Evan came up with his idea and was able to implement

“More than 1.3 billion people worldwide live without electricity and often burn kerosene fuel for lighting” (Hickson, Ken, 98). This is definitely the case in Africa because they are known for representing “3 percent of world energy consumption and has the lowest level of electrification in the developing world” ( ). In Kenya, where this innovation was created, there was a high need for lighting so children could do their homework and receive a good education. Since they didn’t have light to finish projects once then sun came down, they often weren’t able to receive an education that could support a fulfilling job. Once this innovation was put out into the community you could see a difference in how people were able to live their day to day lives. With the money coming