Comments on: Live Aid? Please!

By: politik-digital.de

politik-digital.de — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:06:25 +0000

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By: Joseph Wamicha

Joseph Wamicha — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:53:45 +0000

Excellent article.

‘We Africans’ have to come up with our own strategies to get ourselves out of our languishing poverty. However, there are some truly genuine people in the G8 who do truly wish to help. They would then find solid policies and infrastructure that ‘we Africans’ have set up, through which they can help. Only those who help themselves can be helped.
That said Africa does need outside help.
Here are some really interesting lectures by Jeffrey Sachs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/

By: Letters from China

Letters from China — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:20:47 +0000

Africa, Bob Geldof, China…

Last year Ethan Zuckerman was sceptical about Live 8 and apparently in the minority. A year on, the Telegraph reconsiders the legacy of the big event and Richard Dowden, the director of the Royal African Society, was quoted as saying:Economic…

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tHiNkEr’S rOoM » Blog Archive » Ask M — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:35:42 +0000

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By: Shiro

Shiro — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Your are so right i have the same feelings about G8.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

uuuuwu! Clearly you don’t think much of Bob Geldof, Live 8 and Tony Blair’s commission!

Well said!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I discovered this blog when BBC Online highlighted it. I'm really impressed with the quality of the writing and the keen observations that accompany them!

On Western Aid, we Africans need to understand (and the sooner the better) that the West largely operates on Machiavellian philosophies. Every move and opportunity is analyzed and calculated. They never do anything for nothing in return, even within their own families.

I had heard all this before in high school literature and fasihi akina Burdens, Kisiki etc and thought the authors were simply delusional. Only after living in the US for 4 years now am I beginning to see the reality.

Even the debt relief they are gloating over will leave us with bad credit ratings! So is poverty in Africa really the "White Man's Burden"?

M, keep up the good work!

By: D

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well said! Until Africans break off from their abusers( both european and African leaders who look out for their own and european interests) we will still be asking 'Massa' to gives a little more food/aid/etc.

Yaani tangu Europeans 'discovered' Africa we have been eating shit and I am always shocked when I hear Africans who still think the solution lies with the same governments and systems that messed you up in the first place.

Want to bet Mr Geldof will saving Africa 20 years from now?!
I can see it now, Save Africa 2024!

To show how much they think of Africa, they forgot to invite them to the party! Honestly when will the African learn. 200 years of being played like a fool is not enough?

BTW there is an interesting documentary out there that has just been released that touches on this stuff. GOOGLE '500 years later'.

To Africans, get it together, you are the only ones who will solve your problems not some over fed, western celeberity

Keep the good thinker

By: kari

kari — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

u are so on point!! yani uv captured a thought av had for a while..like u jua this ‘make poverty history’ armbands that have came along?i dont have anything against them per se,but how much of that money that has been raised by those armbands has been used to help the starving farmer in somalia????its just a fashion item at the end of the day…we need to do things that make sense and not just coz it looks/sounds gud…