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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
Africa is the future.
I have studied at the school of the world.
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
Music is a language.
Senegal needs a renaissance.
If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record... →
I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry... →
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the... →