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 ...

Children read books inside the Amani Kibera Book House in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, on June 23, 2026.

NAIROBI, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Amid rows of iron shacks and narrow winding alleys in Kibera, one of Africa's largest urban informal settlements, a new building is drawing excited children.

Maia Lekow and Christopher King's "How to Build a Library" may be more aptly titled, "How to Game the System." This is not ...

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 ...

Libraries in Nairobi, Kenya, are getting a makeover thanks to two women who are hoping to turn the page on the past – creating a new future both for the books inside the libraries and the communities ...

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two documentaries premiering at Sundance this weekend are set thousands of miles apart — in Nairobi, Kenya and Texas, respectively ...