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.

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Nairobi news every morning. “We are not a reading nation,” lamented a Kenyan librarian in 2015. He did not mean, of course, that Kenyans ...

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, ...

Two documentaries premiering at Sundance this weekend are set thousands of miles apart — in Nairobi, Kenya and Texas, respectively – but at the heart of their stories is the same thesis: the ...

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 ...

Two documentaries premiering at Sundance this weekend are set thousands of miles apart - in Nairobi, Kenya and Texas, respectively – but at the heart of their stories is the same thesis: the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...