http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/05/malawi.wind.boy/index.html

"Everyone laughed at me when I told them I was building a windmill. They
thought I was crazy," he said. "Then I started telling them I was just
playing with the parts. That sounded more normal."
..
That was 2002. Now, he has five windmills, the tallest at 37 feet. He
built one at an area school that he used to teach classes on
windmill-building.

The windmills generate electricity and pump water in his hometown, north
of the capital, Lilongwe. Neighbors regularly trek across the dusty
footpaths to his house to charge their cellphones. Others stop by to
listen to Malawian reggae music blaring from a radio.

When he started building the first windmill in 2002, word that he was
"crazy" spread all over his village. Some people said he was bewitched
-- a common description for people with perplexing behavior in some
African cultures.

"All of us, even my mother, thought that he had gone mad," said his
sister Doris Kamkwamba.

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