Djura, born Djouhar Abouda in 1949 in the village of Ifigha in Greater Kabylia, is a Kabyle musician, writer, and feminist activist whose career bridges Kabyle traditional music and the women's-rights public discourse of the late twentieth century. She emigrated with her family to France in early childhood and was raised in the Paris immigrant working-class milieu of the 1950s and 1960s.
She founded the music group Djurdjura in 1977 with her sisters Fatima and Malha, becoming one of the first all-female Kabyle ensembles to record commercially in France. The group's three studio albums of the late 1970s and 1980s — Djurdjura (1979), Tigwasin (1985), and Le Defi (1989) — combined traditional Kabyle melodic and rhythmic structures with a directly feminist lyrical politics, particularly on questions of forced marriage, honour-based violence, and the social position of Berber women in both the homeland and the diaspora.
Her two autobiographical books — Le voile du silence (1990) and La saison des narcisses (1993) — documented her own experience of family-honour violence, including a near-fatal 1987 attack by male family members in response to her public career and her relationship with a non-Berber partner. The books became foundational documents of the post-1980s Maghrebi-French women's-writing tradition and contributed substantially to the broader public discussion of so-called "honour" violence in immigrant communities.
She continues to live and work in France. Her later musical output is more occasional than the Djurdjura-era recording schedule, but her continuing presence in French-public-discourse on women's rights, on Kabyle identity, and on the diasporic politics of cultural transmission has made her one of the principal figures of the second-generation Kabyle-diasporic intellectual sphere.