In 2007, Hosea Tokwe, a senior library assistant at Midlands State University (MSU) in Kweru, Zimbabwe, was given two donated boxes of books bound for the Matenda Primary School in rural Zimbabwe. The difficulties he encountered in simply getting the books to Matenda inspired him to single-handedly establish a library at the school-no small task, as Zimbabwe was in the midst of ongoing political and social unrest. But Tokwe prevailed, convincing the school to convert a classroom into its first library in 2008, and he has continued to work with outside groups to fill its shelves ever since.
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