Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell: Against the Tide

Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was the first Black woman to swim for Great Britain; a former number one and double British Champion, she was forced to walk away just before 2012’s Olympic Games. Talking to Emily Chappell about her beautiful memoir, These Heavy Black Bones, the ex-elite athlete explores the euphoria that comes from peak physical performance alongside abuses of power and racist mythologies that dominate the sport today

Categories: Biography/Memoir, Nonfiction, Sport

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