Vetera Nigerian actress, Zainab Bukky Ajayi was born on 2 February 1934. She was born and bred in Nigeria but completed her higher education in England, United Kingdom through a federal government scholarship. She left England for Nigeria in 1965 and began a career as a presenter and newscaster for Nigerian Television Authority in 1966. She is the mother of Olakunle Fawole, Alfred Oluwole Shoga, Claude Akinwande Peter Thomas.
Bukky then went into acting and made her first debut in the television series Village Headmaster during the ’70s before she went on to feature in Checkmate, a Nigeria television series that aired during the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
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She featured in several films and soaps including Critical Assignment, Diamond Ring, Witches, Mother of George, A Brighter Sun (2007), Keep My Will and a host others. In 2016, she was given a Merit Award at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards together with Sadiq Daba.
Bukky died at her residence in Surulere, Lagos State on 6 July 2016 at the age of 82 after battling with breast cancer and cerebral malaria.
