Two Kenyan women – Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka – set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild neglected libraries in Nairobi.
What began as a small community project quickly revealed the tangled politics of and access to knowledge in a major African city still haunted by its colonial architectures.
Their ongoing work to rehabilitate public libraries is captured in a new film, How to Build a Library, directed and produced by Kenyan filmmakers Maia Lekow and Christopher King.
