After spending two years there, she transferred to the University of Ottawa in Canada, where her husband was working, and she graduated with a bachelor's degree from that institution in 1966.
[4] Selelo-Mogwe returned to Botswana, but she found no one there would hire a black woman for any higher-level position; instead, she moved to Zambia, where she opened the country's first nursing school in Kitwe.
[6][7] After two years in Zambia, she returned to Canada so her husband could continue his studies there, but she did not stay for long, as her friends back home encouraged her to apply to be Botswana's chief nursing officer.
[2][3] She is also considered the first Motswana woman to earn a Ph.D., holding a master's degree and doctorate in nursing education from Columbia University Teacher's College.
[4] She eventually retired to a farm outside Pitsane, a village in Botswana's Southern District, with her second husband, the politician and diplomat Archibald Mogwe, whom she married in 1997.