"Everyone has 15 seconds of fame", were Andy Warhol's words. 14 year old William Kamkwamba from Africa, who managed to generate electricity from the wind, is definitely one of them who made the best of his 15 seconds.

William Kamkwamba is a world-class celebrity now after his book been published from Amazon. Yesterday it was re-tweeted by Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Softbank (@masason) about this 14 year old on twitter, making it re-tweeted even more from all over Japan.

Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story

William Kamkwamba's new book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind," written with Bryan Mealer was released September 29th in the US.