Two Kenyan women – Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka – set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sundance: Directors Maia Lekow and Christopher King commit to capturing the years-long effort to revive three libraries in Kenya after decades of neglect. Built in 1931 by white settlers, McMillan was ...

As the fall semester was winding down and the Horizon Middle School gymnasium in southeastern Colorado Springs was blasting tunes for a school dance, a small group of students was still hard at work ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - When author Masha Hamilton heard of camels ferrying books across northern Kenya to nomadic tribes, she knew it was a story waiting to be written -- but didn't know she would ...

NAIROBI, KENYA, July 16, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- Kenya held the first ever Annual National Reading Day to promote reading culture, digital skills, and literacy among Kenyans of all ages organized ...

A new imposing public library in city sits atop three drums; a symbolism of the fireplace where stories were told in the past. The use of drums was a deliberate attempt to blend cultures that share ...

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