"GUEST" tries to switch the topic from the needs of children to the egos of adult males

The topic is Live 8, the purpose of which is to raise consciousness about and inspire respect for Africa and Africans. This is a music forum and thus a highly appropriate place to highlight the marginalisation of African musicians at an event which is supposed to draw attention to economic disparity. Unlike Live Aid 20 years ago, it is NOT a fundraising event and NOT about handing out short-term aid to children or anyone else. Emotive claptrap about "children's needs" is as patronising and imperialistic as the thankfully abandoned, post-colonial, church missionary approach of selling photographs of "cute piccaninnies" to "help" them. Do have a reality check; what the people of Africa need and deserve is the economic equality to engage with the rest of the world on an equal footing.