In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.