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.

Working against the clock of government contracts and the hurdles of Kenyan bureaucracy, author Shiro Koinange and publisher Angela Wachuka turned an endeavor to renovate a decades-old library—once ...

Shiro and Wachuka are two Nairobi women who attempt to transform the McMillan Memorial Library, a whites-only library until 1958, into a modern and vibrant cultural hub. Their attempts to navigate ...

How can one tackle the effects of colonialism on indigenous African people more than half a century after most nations on the continent got their independence? In “How to Build a Library,” directors ...

Bravo to those city residents who have shown both dogged persistence and intense focus in advocating for building a new East ...

Maia Lekow and Christopher King's "How to Build a Library" may be more aptly titled, "How to Game the System." This is not meant as derisive, but simply the reality faced as the documentary's central ...