The story
The Conover-Porter Award is a biannual prize presented during 1980 - 2018 by the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (US) to reward outstanding achievement in Africana bibliography and reference tools. It honors two pioneers in African Studies bibliography, Helen F. Conover, of the Library of Congress, and Dorothy B. Porter, of Howard University.
Latest and first awards:
2018 – co-winners Historical dictionary of women in sub-saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, and the project Dictionary of African Christian biography (DACB) by Jonathan Bonk, project director Overseas Ministries Study Center; Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University.
1980 – The United States and Africa: guide to U.S. official documents and government-sponsored publications on Africa, 1785-1975, compiled by Julian W. Witherell. Washington: General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reader Services Dept., Library of Congress, [1978].
From Wikipedia’s article on African Studies Association, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4