Youssou N'Dour: the singer who changed his tune | Observer profile

The foremost figure in world music once said he never had any political ambitions. Now he wants to be Senegal's president, becoming a force for change rather than just a voice of changeIt stands 49 metres tall at the western tip of Africa. The costly bronze statue, on a hilltop overlooking the Atlantic from Dakar, Senegal, is meant to symbolise continental renaissance. Critics regard it as a symbol too – of another African leader who has lost the plot, consumed by hubris.Who, then, will challe...

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