Occupation: Singer Birth: October 1, 1959
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 mistak….
Travel teaches as much as books..
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us p….
Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school..
Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be….
I don't really see myself as an actor..
Africa is the future..
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a veh….
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician..
I respect music, I do. I love it..
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private..
In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, peopl….
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music,….
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues..
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep..
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - t….
Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology..
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them..
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, peopl….
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from….
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come….