For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.