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" Africa is the future. "
Future
Africa
" I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so. "
Used
You
Will
" I don't really see myself as an actor. "
Actor
See
Really
" 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. "
People
See
Hungry
" 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. "
Poverty
You
Powerful
" I grew up with reggae music. "
Grew
Music
Reggae
" I have studied at the school of the world. "
School
World
Studied
" I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private. "
Family
Them
Protect
" 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. "
People
Look
Political
" I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them. "
Love
People
Them
" 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. "
Religion
Someone
Educated
" In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep. "
Politics
Keep
Lie
" 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. "
Culture
Attitude
Faith
" I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face. "
Love
Face
Islam
" I respect music, I do. I love it. "
I Love
Love
Music
" Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology. "
Islam
Been
Certain
" Islam is a peaceful religion. "
Islam
Peaceful
Religion
" 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. "
Life
Happiness
Community
" 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. "
Religion
Think
World
" I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician. "
Want
Music
Political
" Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists. "
Lot
Fundamentalists
Listen
" 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 vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas. "
Ideas
Never
Music
" Music is a language. "
Language
Music
" My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future. "
Future
He
Respect
" My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. "
Music
Back
Direction
" Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. "
Artist
You
Politics
" Senegal needs a renaissance. "
Renaissance
Needs
" Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy. "
Free
Needs
Democracy
" 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. "
You
Question
Matter
" Travel teaches as much as books. "
Much
Travel
Teaches
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