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