Nominations close: April 30th, 2022

The Africana Librarians Council, a coordinate organization of the African Studies Association (U.S.), seeks nominations for the biennial Conover-Porter Award for excellence in Africana bibliography or reference work.

The Conover-Porter Award is the most prestigious award for published works of bibliography or reference on Africa.  Any Africa-related reference work, bibliography, or bibliographic essay published separately or as part of a larger work during 2019 to present can be nominated for the 2022 award.  

The award includes a prize of $300 to be presented during the 2022 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Philadelphia, PA.

BACKGROUND
The Conover-Porter Award was established in honor of two pioneers in African studies bibliography: Helen F. Conover and Dorothy B. Porter Wesley. Helen F. Conover was senior bibliographer, African Section of the Library of Congress, serving 32 years before her retirement in 1963, and Dorothy B. Porter Wesley was librarian of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, retiring in 1973 after 45 years of service. The Conover-Porter Award was first awarded in 1980, and was presented to Julian Witherell for _The United States & Africa: Guide to the U.S. Official Documents & Government-Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785-1975_ (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1978).

View a list of previous winners at:
https://guides.library.upenn.edu/AfricanaLibrariansCouncil/ConoverPorterAward