Sundance: Directors Maia Lekow and Christopher King commit to capturing the years-long effort to revive three libraries in Kenya after decades of neglect. “How to Build a Library” begins in 2017.

If knowledge is power, then libraries must be defended at all costs. That’s the mindset of Nairobi residents Angela Wachuka and Shiro Koinange, longtime friends who have taken it upon themselves to ...

In the build-up to the 2007 General Elections, Angela Wachuka visited Kenya from London. When violence broke out in December of that year, she decided to stay. Back north, Ms Wachuka had met and ...

A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces. By Abdi Latif Dahir In 1931, the first library in Kenya’s capital, ...