I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

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 has been badly used by a certain ideology.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

Africa is the future.

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Travel teaches as much as books.