Global Read Webinar Series - Africana Book Award Webinars
Once a month, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Children's Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award) sponsor a 60 minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards. The series of webinars is called Global Read Webinar Series. Each webinar features a presentation by an award-winning author with discussion on how to incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. All sessions are free and open to the public.
Below you will find the Children's Africana Book Award Webinars - these take place once a year.
The Children's Africana Book Awards is sponsored by the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association. The Center for African Studies at Howard University is the institutional base for the Awards.
Upcoming Webinar: The Maid and the Crocodile
K-12 Educators! You're invited to an evening with author Jordan Ifueko. Join us to discuss the award-winning book The Maid and the Crocodile and how to integrate it into the K-12 classroom. The book features a complex heroine in a brilliantly conceived fantasy.
February 12, 2026 at 7pm | Virtual
Africa Access and the Outreach of the Center for African Studies at Howard University invite middle and high school educators in the Washington Metropolitan Area to select a free copy of the novel in advance of the webinar (last day for requests is Feb 7). Participants are encouraged to read the book and engage directly with the author during a live Q&A session.
