Maryam Hamdani: 'I taught myself to play taarab music online'

Maryam Mohammed Hamdani says she is the first woman to play taarab, a traditional style of music native to East Africa, in public in Zanzibar.

She says she wasn’t able to learn as a child due to cultural restrictions, but now she is helping teach other women to play the music.

BBC What’s New? went to meet her.

source: bbc.com