Grad Week 2025 | Fatuma Sumaili — Growth, Resilience, and the Best Part of Being a Matie
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In this Grad Week 2025 podcast episode, recorded on Friday, 9 December 2025, we sit down with Fatuma Sumaili, who received her Postgraduate Diploma in Agronomy — a qualification rooted in discipline, perseverance, and a deep sense of purpose.
Joined in studio by her powerful support system — her mother Carine Tshikand, her brother Lubenga, and her sisters Grace and Gisel — Fatuma reflects on the full journey behind the qualification: the expectations she arrived with, the challenges she faced, the breakthroughs that shaped her, and the family who walked every step alongside her.
As part of MFM 92.6’s Grad Week 2025 series, this conversation goes beyond academics to explore identity, belonging, growth, and what being a Matie has truly meant to Fatuma. She also shares her favourite part of being a Matie — a moment filled with pride, gratitude, and heart.
Once a Matie, always a Matie.
Joined in studio by her powerful support system — her mother Carine Tshikand, her brother Lubenga, and her sisters Grace and Gisel — Fatuma reflects on the full journey behind the qualification: the expectations she arrived with, the challenges she faced, the breakthroughs that shaped her, and the family who walked every step alongside her.
As part of MFM 92.6’s Grad Week 2025 series, this conversation goes beyond academics to explore identity, belonging, growth, and what being a Matie has truly meant to Fatuma. She also shares her favourite part of being a Matie — a moment filled with pride, gratitude, and heart.
Once a Matie, always a Matie.
