Diana Mwango

3 weeks ago | cancerworld.net | Diana Mwango

Experience gained over decades of tackling cancer and supporting patients in Africa’s most populous country gives Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu unique insights and influence to help bring about progress in similar settings across the globe. She talked to CancerWorld journalist, Diana Mwango, about her journey into advocacy and her priorities as the next UICC President.

1 month ago | nation.africa | Diana Mwango

Are people nowadays unnecessarily making it hard to find a soulmate? We, who fell in love (and sometimes in lust) in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, remember a time when love was tender in its simplicity. It was direct. It was brave. I read a post recently, written by a corporate baddie, as young educated working-class women call themselves nowadays, saying that they have no time to date and no men to marry.  I thought Gen Zs are just overcomplicating intimacy. In our time, it was not this complicated.

2 months ago | nation.africa | Diana Mwango

What’s something you did growing up that today’s generation will never understand? I would say the fact that my generation went outside when bored and just did stuff. We didn’t really know the term boredom. We had no footballs, so we made them from layers of plastic bags, tied tight with string or yarn stolen from our mothers’ knitted seat covers — or from tattered knickers, for those who wore them. You used what you had.

2 months ago | nation.africa | Diana Mwango

I asked a bunch of college mates what Easter looked like in the ‘80s and ‘90s — back when God was feared, parents were obeyed, and happiness was homemade, usually with borrowed sugar and borrowed time. The stories came tumbling out, like clothes from an old suitcase: wrinkled, mismatched, but full of character. Let me start with the Safari Rally. Because Easter was never Easter without the dust, the roar, the thrill of it.

Mar 8, 2025 | nation.africa | Diana Mwango

Prof Marleen Temmerman has achieved many firsts in her career. She was among the first women to attend medical school when university was largely reserved for men. She chose gynaecology and her professor wondered why she desired a career meant for men. She became the first female university professor. From a young age, she realised that power lies in knocking as many doors for opportunities as possible, before one or three finally open.