As my colleague and fellow Senegalese Leopold Sédar Senghor, elected to the French Academy thirty years ago, I am Africanist. 
Na kama mwandani wangu na Msenegali mwenzangu, Leopold Sédar Senghor, aliyechaguliwa kuingia Taasisi ya Kifaransa miaka thelathini iliyopita, mimi ni mtaalamu wa mambo ya Kiafrika.