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On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

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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.

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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals. . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

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I look at the past and I see myself.

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But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

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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.

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It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U. S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

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