![]() ![]() The September 11 attacks have disrupted global markets, and Malawi’s leaders (preoccupied with a presidential campaign) aren’t likely to find much money for famine assistance. Not only have they lost most of the crop they were expecting to feed them through the year, they’ll have nothing to sell to meet other expenses - like the tuition needed to keep William in school. ![]() Those trees’ roots have long served as flood protection during heavy rains just as Trywell predicts, his crop is wiped out soon after the trees are removed.Īdapting Kamkwamba’s book himself, Ejiofor proceeds to explain other factors threatening William’s loving family. Trywell (Ejiofor) had hoped to inherit land adjacent to his own, but instead it went to a relative whose gambling debts ensure he’ll sell it to the region’s tobacco estates - companies that just want to cut down trees on the land to use as fuel. We meet 13-year-old William (Maxwell Simba) in 2001, just as his uncle’s death jeopardizes his father Trywell’s small farm. ![]()
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