Dakar hosts international youth book fair
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Soleil
The International Youth and Children’s Book Fair, known as Dakar Vres, is being held from 10 to 14 November 2026 at the Blaise Senghor Cultural Centre in Dakar. Organised by Baobab Édition with the Senegalese Publishers' Association, it is in its fourth edition, according to Le Soleil.
The Blaise Senghor Cultural Centre is hosting the fourth edition of the International Youth and Children’s Book Fair, better known as Dakar Vres, in Dakar from 10 to 14 November 2026. The official launch is scheduled for this Tuesday, 10 November, according to Le Soleil.
The first edition, in November 2023, was organised by the publishing house Baobab Édition in partnership with the Senegalese Publishers' Association (ASE). It brought together 150 authors, including 50 young Senegalese aged 15 to 35, 24 exhibitors, and sixteen schools, for some 3,500 visitors and participants.
Subsequent editions expanded the programme: writing and illustration workshops, storytelling sessions, slam poetry contests and meetings between authors and readers, with a growing place given to national languages. The third edition, from 18 to 22 November 2025, focused on the theme "Library-youth-heritage".
