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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

Bob Geldof

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
BOB GELDOF

Book Contemporary Fascinating
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF

Anything People Unreasonable Well
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOF

People Progress Trying
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOF

Business Music Needs
I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
BOB GELDOF

Birthday Thinking Years
Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOF

Country Scar Soul World
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
BOB GELDOF

Drug Made Thinking
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOF

Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
BOB GELDOF

Country Done Political President
It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
BOB GELDOF

Goes Personal Play Understanding
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
BOB GELDOF

Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
BOB GELDOF

Hair Holding Wells
We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
BOB GELDOF

Aids Poverty Spring Trying War
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOF

Above Music Still
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
BOB GELDOF

Day End Reading Tired
Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
BOB GELDOF

Happening Million Needs People Rocks

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