[news] Crocodile tears are not enough

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By Gerald Caplan | Globe and Mail | June 22, 2005 Let's stop despoiling Africa and then blaming Africans for their continent's underdevelopment, says UN adviser Gerald Caplan. Getting it wrong about Africa is a venerable tradition in the rich world, and music has played its role. Remember the great famine concerts of 20 years ago and the giant hit Do They Know It's Christmas? It's just been rerecorded, with its inane lyrics of Africa as a land "underneath a burning sun . . . where nothing ever grows" and "no rain nor river flows." Get it? Natural causes and bad luck are at the root of Africa's problems.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/23/91318/5566