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Africa is the future.
I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
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.
I grew up with reggae music.
I have studied at the school of the world.
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
I respect music, I do. I love it.
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 - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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.
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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.
Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
Islam is a peaceful religion.
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