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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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so. ”

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future. ”

Africa is the future. ”

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. ”

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness. ”

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures. ”