Uzoma Chioma Asagwara has made history in Canada by becoming the new Health Minister and Deputy Premier of the Province of Manitoba. She took her oaths of office recently. It’s an unprecedented accomplishment as she broke the record of being the first black to achieve that position, having served out her legislative tenure as the first black in that position in Manitoba and Canada.

She was born in Winnipeg when her parents from Abia migrated to Canada in the late 1970s and was earlier elected to represent the Canadian Union Station in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in 2019.

By winning a seat in the Manitoba Assembly and becoming the first black queer legislator, Asagwara broke a 150-year jinx.

Asagwara’s duties as the new health minister will intersect with the bioeconomy in many ways and she is expected to drive innovation and health advancements within the biosciences.

Asagwara, a Nigerian-Canadian psychiatric nurse whose career spans over a decade in the country’s health sector, has also played active basketball in Canada.

She bagged a Bachelor of Science in Psychiatric Nursing and completed a joint programme between the University of Winnipeg and the University of Brandon in 2008.

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