Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
Bob GeldofWe're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
Bob GeldofWhen I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
Bob Geldof