Angela Wachuka

Angela Wachuka is one of Kenyas leading literary producers and publishers and cofounder of Book Bunk Trust the Nairobibased organization restoring the McMillan Memorial Library and two of its branches the subject of the documentary How to Build a Library 2025 From 2008 to 2017 she served as Executive Director of Kwani Trust East Africas pioneering literary journal and publishing house where she published leading African writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Binyavanga Wainaina Nuruddin Farah and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and where prizes established under her leadership included the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature and the Prince Claus Award She holds a degree in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics previously worked at BBCs African News and Current Affairs and has held fellowships at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Obama Foundation