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July 28, 2010

LiveAid - The Kind of Help that Ultimately Harms

by Mandy de Waal, The Daily Maverick, South Africa - As LiveAid marks 25 years comes news that a movie will be made about Sir Bob Geldof, the man who made “kwashiorkor kid” the poster child for Africa, reducing a diverse continent into a terrifyingly simple cliché. It’s touted as a film about a man who could “think the unthinkable and achieve the seemingly impossible".

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