The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.
Socialism is always wrong.
Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.