A video of Maryam Mohammed Hamdani, who taught herself music at the age of 65 years, has surfaced online.
Hamdani reveals she used the internet to educate herself and has overtime, taught other women to play local instruments. According to her, she wished to learn music as a child but cultural challenges prevented her from informing her father about her passion for music.
Born in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, she revealed how she motivated other women to learn how to play music.
