[2] Born to a British mother and a Kenyan father, political activist and academic, Professor Rok Ajulu, Ajulu-Bushell left Britain at the age of three.
She made her senior British debut at the 2010 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, becoming the first black woman to swim for Britain.
[7] After setting up a communications and media agency called Nyar K'Odero Group,[8] she turned to writing and filmmaking, directing and producing the critically acclaimed documentary, Breakfast in Kisumu,[9] it had its international premier at IDFA in 2019, nominated in the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary.
[10] The documentary, edited by Mdhamiri Á Nkemi, received a four-star review from The Guardian as part of an anthology,[11] securing a distribution contract with the streaming platform, True Story.
[13] Ajulu-Bushell joined the Department of African Cultural Studies of UW-Madison as a grad student in August 2020 to begin her PhD.