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In the UK this Friday we have the annual “Red Nose Day” where, across the country, celebrities and members of the public put on uncomfortable red plastic noses and shout the Red Nose catch phrase, “Do something funny of money”. Most businesses and organisations will allow their staff to do silly and amusing things to raise money, or they will just arrange collections and pledge these to the “Red Nose Day appeal”
The day will culminate with an evening long television spectacular, where we will laugh at film of our fellow countrymen and women doing “something funny for money” and cheer each time the growing total of money raised runs across the TV screen.
As with most of these things, a significant amount of the money raised will be earmarked for those living in dire poverty in Africa and we are assured that this will be used to “improve lives”.
Red Nose day has been going on for a number of years and succeeds various similar telethons and concerts for the same purpose dating back to the first “Live Aid” concert in the 1980′s, where well meaning people, 99% of them white, have willingly donated money in addition to the proportion of their taxes which is paid out in aid to the third world, in the genuine hope of “improving lives in Africa”.
Am I being cynical, or can someone please direct me to anything or anywhere in modern Africa where lives are improving? In fact, in the quarter century that this has been going on, lives across Africa have been getting progressively worse.
Sadly, for all their genuine and good intentions, efforts like these which seek to help Africa, but which refuse to accept fundamental truths about Africa, will continue to be exercises in well meant futility.
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