How to Build a Library is an 2025 Kenyan-American documentary film, directed and produced by Maia Lekow and Christopher King.
Shiro Koinange and Angela Wachuka quit their jobs to restore the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi.
[1] Angela Wachuka asked Maia Lekow and Christopher King to document as she and Shiro Koinange attempt to restore McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi, with the footage to be posted on their website.
[2] Instead, Lekow and King decided to make a documentary following the restoration process, and using it as a vehicle to tell a larger story about Kenya.
[6][7] Geralyn White Dreyfous boarded the project as an executive producer, bringing on impact investors.