Chris | Anderson | The TED curator. |
Andrea | Barthello | Bill's wife. |
Blessings | Chikakula | William's tutor. |
J.J | Chikankheni | Trywell's loyal customer. A preacher. |
Mwase | Chiphaudzu | A legendary chief of chewa people. Aka: Killer Grass. |
Peter | Chirombo | Baobab's hardware technician. |
Yembe | Dodo | A boy who was abducted by aliens. |
John | Doerr | One of the most succesful venture capitalists in the world. |
Gerry | Douglas | A British-Canadian computer scientist who founded Baobab. |
Cornelie | Ewango | Botanist who saved endangered animals during the war. |
Michael | Faraday | The inventor of the first Transformer. |
Robert | Fumulani | Trywell's most favorite singer. |
John | Gage | The chief scientist from Sun Microsystems. |
Monica | Gillette | A famous dancer. William's friend. |
Mr. | Godsten | Owner of a welding shop. |
Ayanna | Howard | A robotics engineer who worked for NASA. |
Mr. | Iponga | A barbershop owner. |
Mr. | Kabisa | The head prosecutor in Dowa. |
Peter | Ka-Manga | William's friend. |
Agnes | Kamkwamba | William's mother. |
Aisha | Kamkwamba | William's sister. |
Annie | Kamkwamba | William's sister. |
Chrissy | Kamkwamba | Trywell's sister. |
Doris | Kamkwamba | William's sister. |
Enifa | Kamkwamba | Gilbert's mother. John's wife. |
Fannie | Kamkwamba | John's eldest son. Gilbert's brother. |
Geoffrey | Kamkwamba | William's cousin. |
John | Kamkwamba | Trywell's brother. Geoffrey's father. |
Mayless | Kamkwamba | William's sister. |
Musaiwale | Kamkwamba | Trywell's brother. Aka: Mdzimange. |
Rose | Kamkwamba | William's sister. |
Ruth | Kamkwamba | William's cousin. Socrates's daughter. |
Socrates | Kamkwamba | Trywell's brother. |
Tiyamike | Kamkwamba | William's baby sister. |
Trywell | Kamkwamba | William's father. |
William | Kamkwamba | Protagonist and Narrator. |
Hastings | Kamuzu-Banda | The dictator of Malawi. |
David | Livingstone | The Scottish Missionary. |
Paul | Lorem | William's war survivor friend. |
Lorilee | MacLean | William's teacher at ABCCA. |
Mr. | Mangochi | A trader. Trywell's old friend. |
Everson | Maseya | A famous journalist who interviewed William. |
Hartford | McHazime | The head of MTTA. |
Mike | McKay | A blogger who blogged William on Hactivate. |
Noel | Mkubwi | A journalist from Zodiac. |
Gilbert | Mofat | Geoffrey and William's friend Chief Wimbe's son. |
Bakili | Muluzi | The new dictator of Malawi. |
Soyapi | Mumba | A software engineer and coder at Baobab Health. |
Joseph | Munyambanza | William's friend whose family lived in a camp. |
Dana | Myers | The inventor of electric cars. |
Chief | Nawambe | The Chief of Ngoni people. |
Mr. | Ngwata | Chief Wimbe's bodyguard. |
Chuck | Norris | An American martial artist. |
Emeka | Okafor | A program director of a big conference called TEDGlobal. |
Bola | Olabisi | Nigerian woman. Started a woman's
investment group. |
Mr. | Phiri | A seasonal worker that John hired who has superhuman strength. |
W.M | Phiri | The headmaster at Kachokolo Secondary School. |
Tom | Rielly | Man in charge of organizing the corporate sponsors at TED. |
Bill | Ritchie | A man who runs a company called thinkFun. |
Sam | Ritchie | Bill and Andrea's son. |
Dan | Shine | William's new friend. |
Edith | Sikelo | An English teacher at Wimbe. |
Mr. | Tembo | William's teacher in Geography. |
Githiora | Thuku | William's roommate. |
Bingu Wa | Mutharhika | The new dictator of Malawi. |
Eileen | Walker | Jay's wife. |
Jay | Walker | An inventor and the founder of Priceline.com. |
Jay | Walker | A man that William befriended at a TED conference. |
Chuck | Wilson | The founder of ABCCA. |
Chief | Wimbe | The Chief of Wimbe district. Gilbert's father. |
Ari | | Agnes's brother. William's uncle. |
Bakili | | William's uncle. Agnes's brother. |
Banda | | A farmer. |
Beni Beni | | The madman at Wimbe. |
Charity | | William's cousin. |
Christopher | | William's friend. |
Daud | | A trader William bought a dynamo from. |
James | | Phiri's co-worker. |
Kafu | | Trywell's friend. |
Kalino | | A trader. |
Kennedy | | William's bedmate. |
Khamba | | Socrates's dog. |
Maggie | | A tomato seller. Agnes's friend. |
Mankhalala | | One of Trywell's goats. |
Maxwell | | John's former worker. |
Mese | | William's friend. |
Michael | | A top student. William's classmate. |
Mike | | Annie's husband. A teacher. |
Mizeck | | Charity's friend. |
Rose | | William's grandmother. Agnes's mother. |
Shabani | | Phiri's nephew. |
Shaka | | The Army of Zulu King. |