Woman breaks cultural, religious barriers to work as a tour guide

Bishamba Hamisi Juma (in a black buibui), with her guest clients. Bishamba is a popular Mombasa-based freelance tour guide who always clad in a bui bui and a hijab. [Robert Menza, Standard]

Tour guiding in Mombasa is far from easy. It goes beyond casually sharing random facts with enthralled tourists as you stroll along the walls of Fort Jesus.

While challenging for men, the job presents an even more unpredictable and exhausting reality for young, dedicated Muslim women like Bishamba Hamisi Juma, who always wears a bui bui and hijab.