True, but note that it very often means a very superficial "placate everyone with gifts so that they don't use dark magic to kill me out of jealousy", which is one of the reasons for state failure there¹.
From his declarations, Mane goes way beyond that and demonstrates a genuine empathy towards his fellow rural countrymen (who are abandoned by the state).
¹Of course, imperialists murdering any good local leader is another important reason.
Goor.
And it has the same polysemy : it basically means "man", but also depending of context it means "someone with genuine and full humanity".
Note also that what Mane is doing is deeply rooted in traditional Senegalese values (which doesn't mean that everybody applies them sincerely - far from it - so kudos to him); and that the same values are behind a lot of the corruption there (anybody getting access to power is supposed to provide for all their relatives).