Who do people trust for coronavirus info? In Zambia, it’s nuns on the radio

When Sister Astridah Banda, a Catholic nun and social worker in Zambia, first went on the air, she recalls that people were jolted by her manner. "People are always surprised to see sisters can joke," she says. "They think you’re always serious and praying – and in such instances, I look at myself and say ‘Madame, you and I are one and the same."
 
And now she’s branching out in her subject matter with a show she started in March the "COVID-19 Awareness Programme."