In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.

Africa is the future.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

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.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

I have studied at the school of the world.