Fr. Joe is a diocesan priest trained through the diocesan minor Seminary at Franciscan centre in Ndola, then Mpima and St. Dominic’s major seminary for Philosophical and Theological studies. He has also worked as Chaplain at the workers Pastoral centre in Kitwe, and as Director of the Zambia Episcopal Conference at the Catholic Secretariat in Lusaka. He still serves as Director of the catholic Centre for Justice Development and Peace. He is renowned to have run a widely followed column with then Zambia’s leading private newspaper, the Post, from 1999 to 2004. Fr. Joe holds a BA degree in Theology (Urbaniana), an MA degree in Sociology (Louvain). He is currently the Secretary General of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM)
