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Anne Macharia in Nairobi

Kenya: The accidental librarian keeping Kibera's kids in books

The local children are keen users of their community library at the edge of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. © Anne Macharia

In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children.

Every afternoon at four o’clock, Joseph Otieno unlocks a dented metal door at the edge of Kibera, Nairobi. The sign above the door reads "Community Library" – painted by hand and fading.

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