Cancer is an escalating global health crisis, and Africa remains deeply vulnerable.1 Research finds that the majority of new cancer cases worldwide occur in low-income countries, mostly in the African region, due to poverty, lack of awareness, prevention strategies, lifestyle change and industrialisation.1 2 While current global public health strategy involves promoting physical activity (PA) as a medicine,3 there is a discourse recognising exercise as a supplementary means of prevention and management of oncological conditions. According to the WHO, “all adults should undertake 150–300 min of moderate-intensity, or 75–150 min of vigorous-intensity physical activity, or some equivalent combination of moderate-intensity and vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, per week among children and adolescents, an average of 60 min/day of moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity across the week provides health benefits with regular muscle-strengthening activity for all age groups”.4 Evidence from Africa, although limited, supports the…