Final Proof that Africa is Indeed a Country
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Those brilliant satirists over at #SAIH are back with another take down of the never ending quest to #Save_Africa… with a trivia game show that validates this very website’s existence: As we noted last week, the #Rusty_Radiator and #Golden_Radiator awards are on once again. Just as many are taking up the call to save Africa this […]
#BandAid30: Have we learned nothing?
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Have we learned nothing?! Thirty years ago, the Band-Aid #VIDEO showed pop stars with 1980s hair raising funds for “Africa.” But it wasn’t for Africa, even though the resulting record featured a guitar in the shape of a continent. It was Ethiopia, and the resulting “documentary” began with BBC clips of starving people lined up for food […]
#Bob_Geldof doesn’t need to do a #BandAid30 for #Ebola. African musicians made a song already
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Bob Geldof is going to put out another Band Aid single, another rehash of the grotesque “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” with slightly altered lyrics. We’ve written about the problematic politics of such songs in detail before. #Bim_Adewunmi broke it down over at the Guardian today. Disaster appeals are necessary but it also matters […]
##WHITEHISTORYMONTH #breaking_news_for_ticker #EDITORIAL #JOURNALISM #MUSIC #top_menu_item #BandAid #BandAid30 #Bono #Do_They_Know_It's_Christmas? #Gary_Younge #Guinea #Liberia #Sierra_Leone
The “German #Bob_Geldof of development aid’ is dead.
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Austrian actor and founder of the NGO ‘Menschen für Menschen’ (People for People), Karlheinz Böhm was buried last Friday in Salzburg, #Austria. His remains came to rest in a cemetery in his native country yet earth from Africa was carried to Europe in order to allow him to rest in Ethiopian soil as he had […]
#MEDIA #Beschaulichkeit #Germany #humanitarianism #Karlheinz_Bohm #Menschen_für_Menschen’