On your new album, Beautiful Africa, you call yourself an ‘Afro-progressive’. What does that mean?
There’s a generation in Africa now who no longer wants to think in simple ways, like ‘Africa is a victim and Europe is guilty’. We’ve thought like that for a long time. Of course, slavery was a bad idea, colonialism was a bad idea for Africa. But if you accept the role of victim, it means you accept not only that others are guilty, but also that they’re more powerful than you. We have to trust in the fact we can change things. We no longer accept we are victims. We’re going to take charge of our own destiny and make decisions.
