Pap Touray was compared to Paul Robeson, the great African-American singer who inspired Kwame Nkumarah, Jomo Kenyatta, Azikwe, the Great African Liberator I.M Garba Jahumpa and Julius Nyerere, Oliver Tambo, Tom Boya, and others in the 40s in England that they must go back home and free Africa. Paul Robeson was awarded the Grand Order of Russia by Stalin for his music and died in the USA in the early 60’s.