Zakia is a broadcaster, writer and DJ from London with a passion for music, arts, mental health and history.

She regularly produces and presents radio documentaries and podcasts for platforms including BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, Tate, and Boiler Room and has explored a wide range of topics, from Caribbean ancestral drumming, to schizophrenia and intergenerational trauma, to improvisation in the arts.

Alongside audio production, Zakia is an enthusiastic and respected collector and sharer of music. As a radio-host, Zakia presents her widely popular 'Dream Time' show on BBC Radio 6 Music, where each week she transports her listeners to different spaces and places with music to ease the mind and lift the spirits. Previously, Zakia hosted her beloved and long-standing 'Questing' show on NTS Radio. As a DJ, Zakia has performed at esteemed clubs and festivals in London and abroad, including the likes of HORST BE, Dekmantel Selectors HR, Printworks UK, Ortigia Sound System IT, Dimensions Festival HR, We Out Here UK, GALA UK, Berlin Atonal DE, Blå NO, Sun Cycle AUS and Le Guess Who? NL. [more]