I don't really see myself as an actor.

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, people who do not have enough to eat.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Africa is the future.