If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.