
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 only open to white people—into a nationwide movement for cultural preservation and legacy. Their story of resilience and decolonial struggle is captured in “How to Build a Library,” a new documentary screened at Barnard’s Athena Film Festival on March 8.