Africans to Bono: 'STOP!'


	Africans to Bono: 'STOP!'

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7-16-2007 11:30 AM

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africa, poverty, third world, development, aid, charity, investment

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7-16-2007 12:20 PM

dorine

Good article!

10-9-2007 4:56 AM

davboz

Teach a man to fish!

10-9-2007 12:43 PM

The REAL Napster

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Luckily, a few enlightened megastars from America and Europe have come to save it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-0707/africans-to-bono-for-gods-sake-please-stop"><FONT size="2">Curiously, not all the natives are grateful.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-0707/africans-to-bono-for-gods-sake-please-stop">at the <SPAN class="link-external"><A href="http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/49" target="_blank">Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED)</A></SPAN> conference, a group of the continent's intellectual elite issued a very different plea: stop flooding Africa with aid.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-0707/africans-to-bono-for-gods-sake-please-stop"><P>These speakers were selected to support a thesis, painfully obvious but somehow radical in this age: Africa won't be "saved" by aid, but by the ingenuity and determination of its own people.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-0707/africans-to-bono-for-gods-sake-please-stop">lambasted the Western world's "international cocktail of good intentions" for robbing Africa of its future. 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