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"All of us, even my mother, thought that he had gone mad, " said his sister Doris Kamkwamba.
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Kamkwamba, now 22, is a student at the African Leadership Academy, an elite South African school for young leaders.
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Mealer, a native of San Antonio, Texas, said he lived with Kamkwamba in his village for months to write the book.
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Former Associated Press correspondent Bryan Mealer, who covered Africa, wrote a book, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, " after hearing Kamkwamba's story.
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Kamkwamba is invited to events worldwide to share his experience with entrepreneurs.
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Kamkwamba is part of a generation of Africans who are not waiting for their governments or aid groups to come to their rescue, according to the author.
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Villagers would surround him to snicker and point, Kamkwamba said.
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