{"id":598,"date":"2005-07-01T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2005-07-01T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:00:45","slug":"how-can-the-west-help-africa-a-global-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/01\/how-can-the-west-help-africa-a-global-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"How can the West help Africa? A global Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/0701\/p01s01-woaf.html\">CS Monitor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>Saturday, 10 cities around the world will host some of pop music&#8217;s biggest names as part of the &#8220;Live 8&#8221; concert series (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.live8live.com\/\">www.live8live.com<\/a>). Organizer Bob Geldof hopes large turnouts will pressure the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized nations, meeting in Scotland next week, to help put &#8220;an end to poverty&#8221; in Africa. He also hopes the rock shows will boost awareness about Africa&#8217;s plight &#8211; and how the wealthy world can help.<\/p>\n<p>The Monitor decided to find out what some Western concertgoers really know about Africa, and where there is &#8211; and isn&#8217;t &#8211; common ground with Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondents spoke with eight ticket-holders for concerts in Philadelphia, London, and Rome. They also interviewed eight people in Senegal and Nigeria, two indebted African nations.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the two groups have different priorities. Nearly every Westerner mentioned HIV\/AIDS as a top African problem. Only one African did. Every African cited poverty as a major worry. And most wanted investment &#8211; not aid.<\/p>\n<p>We also asked some lighter questions. Could the Westerners name even one African leader? (Only half could.) Did the Africans know what U2 is? (Most didn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>The Africans universally agreed that their continent is culturally richer than many Westerners can imagine, but that their leaders are fundamentally corrupt. That&#8217;s why this group all advocated that &#8220;strings&#8221; be tied to aid to prevent it from going astray.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CS Monitor: Saturday, 10 cities around the world will host some of pop music&#8217;s biggest names as part of the &#8220;Live 8&#8221; concert series (www.live8live.com). Organizer Bob Geldof hopes large turnouts will pressure the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized nations, meeting in Scotland next week, to help put &#8220;an end to poverty&#8221; in Africa. He also hopes the rock shows will boost awareness about Africa&#8217;s plight &#8211; and how the wealthy world can help. The Monitor decided to find out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-senegal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-9E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}