Once a whites-only enclave, the grand McMillan Memorial library is just one of 3 in the Kenyan capital that have been changed for the neighborhood
Down a steep, slim staircase, the basement of the McMillan Memorial Library in Nairobi holds greater than 100 huge, dust-covered bound volumes of papers. Below as well are the minutes of council meetings and photographic negatives returning greater than a century.
” Here lie several of the minute-by-minute recorded arguments from the time British colonial powers ruled Nairobi, when it was a set apart city,” says Angela Wachuka, a publisher. Secs later, a power cut dives the space into darkness. “We still have a large amount of work to do,” she adds.
Source: The Guardian