‘How to Build a Library’ Review: Compassionate but Uneven Documentary Tracks the Reinvention of a Colonial Era Library in Kenya
This documentary, premiering at Sundance, follows the rehabilitation of a colonial-era library in Kenya, but only tells half of a story.
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How to Build a Library
One unforgettable day was following our subjects into the basement of the decaying McMillan Library and witnessing them unearth from a pile of junk a miniature photograph of the first hanging in Kenya ...
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‘How to Build a Library' Review: Two Nairobi Women Confront Colonialism's Lasting Impact
"How to Build a Library" begins in 2017. Shiro and Wachuka are a writer ... By the time we see what Shiro and Wachuka have managed to create - a home for African stories to be told by Africans - it's ...
Maia Lekow and Christopher King on Sundance Doc ‘How to Build a Library' and How the Story of Saving One Nairobi Library ‘Can Be the Blueprint' For All of Africa - And the ...
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 ...