Award-winning Nigerian author awarded the 'Children’s Africana Book Award'

Okorafor received the award at at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, USA with the Iranian illustrator Mehrdokht Amini.

Chicken in the Kitchen captures a night in the life of a little Igbo girl named Anyaugo and her encounter with a Chicken masquerade.

The Children’s Africana Book Award is sponsored by Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the Africa Studies Association. They are handed out each year for excellence in children’s and YA books with Africa-related content.

Okorafor a literature and creative writing professor at the University of Buffalo is not new to winning awards and writing young adult books. She won the 2016 Hugo Award in the Best Novella category for her book Binti. Her science fiction novel Lagoon was a finalist for a British Science Fiction Association Award (Best Novel) and a Red Tentacle Award (Best Novel) and a Tiptree Honor Book.

Her award winning young adult books include The Shadow Speaker, Long Juju Man, Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine , Akata Witch published as What Sunny Saw in the Flames in Nigeria and the UK and Zahrah the Windseeker.

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