“Politicians belong to the public, but they have families. We must criticize them out of love,” says Dolika Banda, former ZCCM Chairperson and niece to Zambia’s late president Rupiah Bwezani Banda. Now a trailblazer in international finance and the first woman to chair the board of Standard Chartered Bank Zambia, Dolika speaks candidly about her childhood, shaped by loss, resilience, and love. After losing her father in a car accident at just 10 years old, she was taken in by her paternal uncle, Rupiah Banda, long before he became Zambia’s fourth republican president. Speaking on Linda Kasonde’s podcast “Women, Resilience and the Will to Lead,” Dolika reflected on her journey, from a grieving child in Lusaka to a global banking...