Welcome!
Welcome to the Nile Book Awards! Please check out the "Winners" page to see the books.
If you are an educator in Africa and would like to join the committee, please email jdaley@aislusaka.org or thenilebookawards@gmail.com
-The Nile Book Awards Team
Here are the 2025-2026 Nile Book Award Nominees. Which will you choose as your favorite book?
I Absolutely Positively Love My Spots by Lid'ya C Rivera
I Can Be All Three by Salima Alikhan
The Rumbling Rhino by Roslynne Toerien
The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leun
The Walking Schoolbus by Aaron Friedland & Ndileka Mandela
Pets Rule: My Kingdom of Darkness by Susan Tan
Kwame's Magic Quest: Rise of the Green Flame by Benard Mensah
Jada Jones Nature Lover by Kelly Staling Lyons
Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd
The Journal of Anxious Izzy Parker by Alma Fullerton
Nic Blake and the Remarkables by Angie Thomas
Where the Black Flowers Bloom by Ronald Smith
The Cedarville Shop and Wheelbarrow Swap by Bridget Krone
Flying Up the Mountain by Elizabeth Irene Baitie
Abeni's Song by Djeli Clark