Feedback from the African blogsphere on Live 8
on July 5th, 2005 at 7:44 amMartin Kimani writes on African Bullets & Honey:
“Geldof and company will lay claim to the very last thing so many Africans own: our problems. And it will be terrible and evil beyond imagining for owning your problem is at the heart of what it is to be human. It is when we wrestle and suffer and triumph over our problems that we are most human, but this alas is not to be if the soul stealers on show succeed.”
“There is NO DEBT. Again, THERE IS NO DEBT. Africa owes the West NOTHING. NOTHING. On the balance owed to us, however (does anyone have a calculator handy?), we have a good five hundred years or resource and personnel theft, deliberate underdevelopment and interference in our politics (Lumumba anyone?), continuing depredations and destruction (Shell in Nigeria, anyone?), and theft theft theft. Look, if somebody mugs you, takes your wallet and your car, are you really going to be grateful because they gave you a bus fare home?”
“G8 Leaders know nothing about Life
They live in a bubble created by their wealth
Come to Africa and learn of life to struggle
before the sun is up
To feel like life is not worth living
Poverty is the basis of the African struggle
When poverty is gone, Africa will become what it should be
The world’s greatest continent.”
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