CABA 2023 Winners

The Winners of the 2023 Children’s Africana Book Awards are:

Best Book for Older Readers

Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

by Tọlá Okogwu Margaret K. McElderry
2022
Country of Topic: Nigeria
The Door of No Return.

by Kwame Alexander
Little Brown and Company, 2022
Country of Topic: Ghana

Honor Books for Older Readers

How You Grow Wings

by Rimma Onoseta
Algonquin Young Readers, 2022
Country of Topic: Nigeria
Children of the Quicksands

by Efua Traoré
Chicken House, 2022
Country of Topic: Nigeria
The Kaya Girl

by Mamle Wolo
Little, Brown and Company, 2022
Country of Topic: Ghana

Best Book for Young Children

Bottle Tops, The Art of El Anatsu

by Alison Goldberg & Elizabeth Zunon (illus.)
Lee & Low Books, 2022
Country of Topic: Ghana and Nigeria
Lion Lights, My Invention that Made Peace with Lions

by Richard Turere, Shelly Pollock and Sonia Possentini (illus.)
Tilbury House, 2022
Country of Topic: Kenya

Honorable Mention

Akie & Ebuka Got into Trouble

by Uzoma Ezekwudo & Zulfikaar Rachman (illus.)
Indie Blossom, 2022.
Country of Topic: Nigeria
On My Papa's Shoulders

by Niki Daly
Catalyst Press, 2022
Country of Topic: South Africa
All Rise, Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa 1910-1948

by Richard Conyngham
Catalyst Press, 2022
Country of Topic: South Africa

Authors & Illustrators

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Kwame Alexander

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Alison Goldberg

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Tola Okogwu

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Rimma Onoseta

Shelly Pollock

Shelly Pollock

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Sonia Possentini

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Efua Traoré

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Richard Turere

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Mamle Wolo

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Elizabeth Zunon