Educated at the Universite Libre de Kinshasa,[3] Kayembe was a human rights activist with the NGO Toges noires (Black Togas) before her career as a barrister began with the Congolese Bar Association in 2000.

Kayembe was part of a delegation sent by President Joseph Kabila to South Africa aiming to establish a commission to investigate human rights in DRC.

Thus she emigrated to the United Kingdom as a political asylum refugee in 2005, in Blackburn, near Manchester with assistance from her MP Jack Straw ensuring she was not expelled, and got final permission to remain granted in 2007.

Her other roles include representing refugees on the Royal Society of Edinburgh / Young Academy of Scotland[4] and is their expert lawyer for the RSE working group for Africa.

[9] She started the Freedom Walk campaign, a civil rights movement lobbying on behalf of citizens and petitioning by promoting social reforms, racial justice and community harmony, in particularly with regard to educational racism.