About this event

The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S. Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) created CABA in 1991 to encourage the publication and use of accurate, balanced children’s materials about Africa. #CABAbooks

The Center for African Studies at Howard University is the institutional base for the Awards

Schedule

• 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.- Interactive Activities

• 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.- Meet the Winners followed by Q & A session

• 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.- Author's Book Signing

• 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Master Workshop “Tell It In Verse” using the novel Home is Not a Country led by Lesina Martin

CABA Winners 2022:

1. Useni Perkins with illustrations by Laura Freeman- Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech

2. Johnnetta Betsch Cole- African Proverbs for All Ages

3. Safia Elhillo- Home is Not a Country

4. Elizabeth-Irene Baite- Crossing the Stream

5. Yassmin Abdel-Magied- Listen Layla

6. Natasha Bowen- Skin of the Sea (Not present to receive award)

7. Malla Nunn- Sugar Town Queens (Not present to receive award)