Its time to give back | Dolika Banda | TEDxEuston

DOLIKA BANDA began her career with Citibank and the then Barclays in Zambia. She joined the CDC from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where she worked for 16 years, most recently as its Director, Financial Markets, with full managerial responsibility for the IFCs financial markets activities across sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. In her role as Regional Director, Africa, Banda works with CDC’s Investment Teams to ensure that CDC’s capital is being invested to meet the demands of the African market. The audience at TEDxEuston 2014 had the privilege  of following Dolika on a journey through her history. A standing ovation from the TEDxEuston community reaffirmed Dolika’s conviction that: “it is her time to give back” after a long and successful career in the diaspora.

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"Debunking the made-for-Africa script" - Catherine Phiri at TEDxEuston 2013

She is often introduced as  a trailblazing  entrepreneur. She  is the managing director of  Media 365, a cause-related communications company with headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia, which produces award-winning campaigns for leading organizations and academic institutions including UNICEF, Johns Hopkins University and the African Peer Review Mechanism. She is the executive producer of Zambia’s popular drama series Love Games, funded by Communication Support for Health (USAID). A passionate advocate for HIV and AIDS awareness, in addition to which she was also the executive producer of  Shuga, MTV’s first drama series for Africa with a HIV storyline. In her TEDxEuston 2013 talk, Catherine Phiri talks us through her passion and aim to challenge the cheapness and laziness of developmental health messaging aimed at Africans. "I realised that uninspiring and unengaging development information was a Made-for-Africa formula" She inspires us to challenge this formula and reminds us that "We know how to tell our stories". Imagine the ripple effect of that!

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