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.

When was the last time you stepped into a library? Or are you more of an “is there a PDF version?” kind of person? It’s not really your fault, we live in a digital age built on convenience. But it ...

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 ...

This guide gives you a working system for 2026. You’ll learn how to build a library you can search, back up, move, and read ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...