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Meet The Hijab-Clad DJ of Zanzibar! Published February 1st, 2021 - 06:18 GMT
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While the entertainment industry is increasingly becoming a hard place for women to carve out a career, Bakary easily makes her own way through a misogynist landscape to earn her income.
As glittering disco lights filter through puffs of scented smoke, Aisha Bakary moves her vinyl wheels back and forth on a turntable to produce rhythmic sounds.
Dressed in a buibui a traditional Muslim gown worn by the majority of women in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago with a cloak to hide her long braids in line with Islamic tradition, Bakary adeptly fade between two soulful melodies simultaneously on a DJ mixer, provoking whistling from the enchanted crowd at the iconic stone town amphitheater.