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Youssou N'Dour (French pronunciation: [jusu nˈduʁ]; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine described him as, "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism.

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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.

Children, People, School, Scourge, Stop

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.

Africa, Eat, Enough, People, Two, Want

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

Family, My Family, Private, Protect, Protect My Family

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Lie, Lying, Politics, Promise, Sometimes

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Africa, Left, Music, Slave, Slaves

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 country itself.

Country, Isolation, Needs, People, Senegal, Sit

Travel teaches as much as books.

Book, Books, Teach, Teaches, Travel

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.

Community Living, Happiness, Missing, Spite, Terms, Thinking

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.

Connections, Discussions, Ideas, Music, Sake, Solely

I have studied at the school of the world.

School, Studied, World

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Art, Play, Political, Role

I grew up with reggae music.

Grew, Grew Up, Music, Reggae

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Islam, Peaceful, Religion

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

Fundamentalists, Having Fun, Listen, Religions

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

Badly, Certain, Islam, Used

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.

Ask, Educated, Modern, Praying, Question

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.

Culture, Ideas, Think, Thinking, Western

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

Afraid, Father, Musician, People, Tell, Used

Senegal needs a renaissance.

Needs, Renaissance, Senegal

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.

Gabriel, Like, Marvelous, Peter, Powerful, Records

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