She covers her head with a baseball cap instead of a hijab, raises her voice for women’s rights, and is Afghanistan’s first female rapper. Fearing for their safety, last year she and Diverse fled Afghanistan and joined the more than one million migrants who arrived in Germany from the Middle East. “They were shouting at me and saying I was a bad influence on other women by trying to make music,” Paradise says. The following year, they released Faryad-e Zan (Woman’s Shout), the first song ever to feature a female Afghan rapper. Paradise is still fighting and is scheduled to speak at Talking Taboo, an international conference for women’s rights in London on 2 December.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2016 15:46 UTC