Meet the Nigerian oncologist helping to fight cancer in KZN and across Africa
Daily Maverick | 09.06.2026 16:09
In Borno State, Nigeria, soon after graduating from medical school, Dr Abba Mallum treated a young patient whose sad plight would shape his future. In Gamboru Ngala, on northeastern Nigeria’s border with Cameroon near Lake Chad, Mallum paid the young woman’s taxi fare to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital – about 150km away – where she was to have a breast lump removed. But poverty interrupted her pathway to care.
