12. Role Model and Icon

1 Mark Hudson, ‘A song and a prayer’, Observer Music Monthly 33, 23 May 2004, p. 31. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/may/23/worldmusic.islam, accessed 1 March 2019.

2 Le Quotidien, 19 August 2004. Author’s translation.

3 Ibid.

4 www.buzzsenegal.com, 1 March 2016.

5 ‘Richest musician: who is the richest musician in Africa?’, Constative (website), www.constative.com/celebrity/who-is-the-richest-musician-in-africa, accessed 1 March 2019.

6 ‘Africa works’, Benetton press release, undated. Available at http://www.benettongroup.com/media-press/press-releases-and-statements/africa-works/, accessed 1 March 2019.

7 Le Pays au Quotidien, Dakar, 2013. Author’s translation.

8 Ibid.

9 www.lapresse.ca, 10 November 2015. Author’s translation.

10 Mark Hudson, ‘Womad 2014: Youssou N’Dour – Senegal’s minister of sound’, Daily Telegraph, 24 July 2014. Available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/10986092/Womad-2014-Youssou-NDour-Senegals-minister-of-sound.html, accessed 1 March 2019.

11 Geldof made this statement in his interview for Channel 4 on 8 May 2004. Available at https://www.channel4.com/news/bob-geldof-nigeria-africa-progress-panel-video, accessed 1 March 2019.

12 Martin Fletcher, ‘Mutant mosquitoes: Can gene editing kill off malaria?’, Telegraph, 11 August 2018. Available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/mutant-mosquitoes-can-gene-editing-kill-malaria/, accessed 1 March 2019.

13 Oumar Sankhare, Youssou N’Dour: Le Poète, Les Nouvelles Éditions Africaines du Sénégal, 1997, blurb on back cover. Author’s translation.

14 Jon Pareles, ‘Review/Pop; a singer from Senegal by way of the world’, New York Times, 9 November 1992. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/09/arts/review-pop-a-singer-from-senegal-by-way-of-the-world.html, accessed 1 March 2019.

15 Gérald Arnaud, Youssou N’Dour: le griot planétaire, Collection Voix du Monde, Éditions Demi-Lune, 2008, p. 113.

16 Citations for recipients of honorary degrees at Yale University 2011, Yale University. Available at https://news.yale.edu/citations-recipients-honorary-degrees-yale-university-2011, accessed 1 March 2019.

17 The Polar Music Prize website has a page dedicated to former winners of the prize. Youssou’s page can be found at https://www.polarmusicprize.org/laureates/youssou-ndour/, accessed 1 March 2019.

18 Rick Glanvill, ‘Get set go’, World Beat, December 1990.