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this beautiful region of the sahel that represents a lot, in thousands of years for africa, to emancipate. but now, it's suffering. we need to rise up again all our voices. i mean, in all honesty, does it make much difference? you are appointed, i think, right now, it's about to be announced — you're about to be appointed a new un goodwill ambassador, committing to tackling desertification and environmental degradation, which is a huge issue in northern senegal, across the sahel region — one of the worst—affected places by climate change already. does being a un goodwill ambassador make any difference? it will make a difference. it will, because with nann—k — i'm just operating now in my country, senegal — i have a special love of senegal, and maybe in mauritania, where we have many sections of nann—k. but being a goodwill ambassador i think will help me open
it's just coming to this natural way of playing music. maybe it's a kind of reflecting of the first way i was writing songs, where i was much more relaxed, not under pressure, not in a hurry, just taking a lot of pleasure of being into a studio, sitting in the middle of a garden and picking up my guitar and playing music, and songs comes naturally and i think this is what i was looking for in this album. you're a star of world music and you tour the world playing your music, but would you say that your music is still very much rooted in podor, your home town in northern senegal and the fishing community that you came from and the very sort of local place that your music was founded in? yeah, it has its own place, my region into my music,
but notjust the north of senegal where i come from. i think i can say from west africa first and then, open to the world because i think i am global citizen of the world and i did take a lot of influences by travelling, listening to all these kinds of music and meeting some other musicians, trying to understand where is this meeting point between what i have from my african cultural background and what they are giving to me. how difficult is it to do the two things that you talk about a lot? that one is honour tradition — you talk a lot about honouring your traditions. but you also, from the late �*70s and �*80s, were very keen to innovate. you were using electronic music, you were collaborating with cutting—edge musicians farfrom your home in northern senegal, so how difficult is it to do both at once?
new things to feel on their skin or on their bone when they want to write songs. but at the same time, i always say that my goal is to take this african music and to show it to the rest of the world, that that is also their music, and this music also can bring something to learn from it, something to share in their life and to find solutions of their problems. well, i'm delighted, baaba, that you mentioned the blues of the river festival, which is sort of created. which you sort of created. it takes place in podor, your home town in northern senegal, which is quite remote but... very remote. ..many people want to be there every year. now, in your latest album, being, you have a track freak out which actually includes some wonderful images of you being at the blues of the river festival in podor — i believe it is from a couple of years ago.
celebrating chadwick, we have many, many stories like that. and those storytellers can bring a lot of them on the table for cinema in africa just to explore it. but at the same time, what's really, really good — and that's the aspiration of the young people in africa — is the access to technology. and to resolve their problem through technology. everyone is fascinated by technology. but technology, in itself, can't solve africa's problems. no. from the very beginning of this interview, i've alluded to governance issues in africa. yeah. i've got to ask you this question before we end. 11 years ago, i had you in the hardtalk studio. we spoke then about whether you would translate the influence you have in your region, the sahel, and across africa — whether you would one day translate it into politics in your home country, senegal. at that time, you said to me, "maybe one day. "it's not my decision yet, "but i'm always going to use my voice to tell the truth "and help my people