FIBF 2026 HIGHLIGHTS

All days: showing 24 of 92 photographs

• Day 1A schoolgirl and a guest unveil the board bearing the fair's theme, “Reading Zambia to the World, Reading the World in Zambia”.
• Day 1The auditorium at Alliance Française de Lusaka, filled with students in school uniform and other guests.
• Day 1A speaker in a blue shirt addresses the hall from the lectern.
• Day 1A visitor reads a paperback at the exhibition.
• Day 1Students in school uniform stand alongside guests in front of the stage.
• Day 1Books on display stands and laid out across an exhibition table.
• Day 1A schoolgirl speaks into a microphone beside a guest in a dark suit.
• Day 1Visitors gather at an exhibitor's table as she shows them printed material.
• Day 1Students in blazers and red ties listen from the audience.
• Day 1A smiling woman stands in front of a poster for the book The Mourning Bird.
• Day 1A speaker in a green shirt addresses the hall from the stage.
• Day 1An older woman smiles as she handles books at an exhibition table.
• Day 1Two schoolgirls seated on stage, one speaking into a microphone.
• Day 1A pop-up book with a paper castle, open on a children's book table.
• Day 1Guests in suits look over an exhibition stand together.
• Day 1Students share a laugh in the audience.
• Day 1Two men laugh together outside the exhibition rooms.
• Day 1A seated speaker addresses the hall beneath a screen titled “The State of the Zambian Book Industry”.
• Day 1Stacks of the book 48 Questions for Your Retirement Roadmap on display.
• Day 1A woman in a patterned headwrap hands a copy of a poetry book across a table.
• Day 1A row of students in different school uniforms seated in the audience.
• Day 1A panel of speakers seated on stage between the fair's banners.
• Day 1Visitors pose in front of a bookseller's red tent in the grounds.
• Day 1A young woman listens intently from the audience.