The Outlook Podcast Archive - I Dressed As a Man to Work in a Mine

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Pili Hussein from Tanzania disguised herself as a man so she could work down a mine. She wanted to make her fortune from the extremely rare gemstone known as Tanzanite. She fooled her male colleagues for ten years and now has her own mining company.

Image: Tanzanian miner Pili Hussein
Credit: Pili as a miner (Gaure Mdee) and Pili speaking into a microphone (BBC)

Published on Wednesday, 19th April 2017.

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