The Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) announced winners of the 2006 Children's Africana Book Awards for authors and illustrators of outstanding books about Africa published in the United States for young children and older readers.
The Outreach Council of the African Studies African studies (also known as Africana studies) is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is referred to as an Africanist. Association (ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and ) announced winners of the 2006 Children's Africana Book Awards for authors and illustrators of outstanding books about Africa published in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. for young children and older readers. The awards will be presented November 18, 2006, in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association. The winners were Meja Mwangi, The Mzungu Boy (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2005); Tamara Bower, How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005); Liz Sonneborn, The Ancient Kushites, (Scholastic Inc./Franklin Watts, 2005); David C. Conrad, Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay (Facts on File, Inc., 2005); and Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney (illus.) The Old African (Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Dial Books, 2005). See www.AfricaAccessReview.org for more information.
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