racist abuse.Debora Kayembe, 45, has compared the racially motivated attacks she's suffered in the Midlothian town she lives in as 'like Alabama in 1964' - the epicentre of the US Civil Rights movement where black people were subjected to abhorrent racism.Single mum-of-two Debora, who lives in Bonnyrigg with her two teenage children, left her home in the Congo in 2005 after a backlash against her investigative work into a massacre of women and children put her life at risk.
She has forged a successful legal career in Scotland and sits on the board of directors for the Scottish Refugee Council.In August 2019, she became the first female African to have her portrait hung in The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) - an honour awarded to those.
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