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Mr. Gracewell Mwansa is a founding group member and current Vice Chairman of the Zambian Investment Initiative for Zambia (ZINITZ)Board. He is also Chair of the Business and Strategy sub-committee. He will discuss the genesis of the investment group and the stage reached so far. Against the backdrop of the success achieved, he will also give us some insight into some of the hurdles the group encountered during its formative year.This show is promising to be an invaluable and educative resource for all the Diaspora Zambians intending to establish development groupings with the view to invest in Zambia. Join at 9:00AM EST (New York) or 1500 hours (Zambia).

In this series we'll be featuring Zambians and friends of Zambia who are engaged in projects or have great plans which are intended to bring development to Zambia by improving the standard of living.

"In 2006,Ghanaians based in UK contributed $4bn to the Ghanaian economy in the form of remittances.This was more than the aid it received from donors in that year".The success of the United States has been the ability to replicate the work of one state into 50 different similar stories. In Africa, the Ghanaian Diaspora have shown what Diaspora can do when we work together. Dr Kwame Osei is the Project Manager of Ghana Investment Forum, he joins the Zambia Blog Talk Radio Team to share the story. Join us in this interesting discussion with Dr Kwame this Saturday

Ms. Margaret Makungo is a Tourism Officer for the Zambia National Tourism Board Office based in Washington, DC, USA, where she is responsible for promoting Zambia as tourist destination. She joins us and our entire Diaspora listeners to discuss some of the challenges she faces in executing her tasks. Also Cornwell Muleya, Chief Executive Officer for Zambia's newly formed airline, Zambezi Airline, will join us to discuss his vision and future of the newly established airline.

Ing'utu Palmer was one of the delegates that travelled to Zambia to attend and represent the Zambian Diaspora at the National Indaba on the global economic crisis held in Lusaka. Ing'utu has graciously accepted to join us on the show to share her personal experiences and insight gleamed from her participation in the Indaba deliberations.

Professor Luo's work in the Zambian health sector goes way back before she even became minister of health. She is the president of the society for women and AIDS in Zambia. She is well known for her project called TASINTHA which was designed to reform sex workers into a regular lifestyle.