Dirty, dusty Zambia International Trade Fair

Something needs to be done about the organisation of the Zambia International Trade Fair in Ndola.

We share Ndola district commissioner Rebby Chanda’s disappointment with the poor organisation of this year’s trade fair. However, we are not sure if the proposed suspension of the event for two years is the best way to go.

It is true there is stagnation, and indeed degeneration, in the organisation of the Zambia International Trade Fair. Things are still the way they were three or so decades ago when many other things in the country and in the world have changed so much. Where is the innovation, the creativity?

The Zambia International Trade Fair needs to be better organised now than ever before. This is so because in an increasingly globalising world, an international trade fair plays a very important role as a sophisticated platform for conducting business on a national and international scale…

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