Live Aid Campaigner Bob Geldof Was Scathing About African Leaders, Files Reveal

Singer urged Tony Blair not to appoint African co-chair to commission on aid, UK government papers show The Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof urged Tony Blair not to appoint an African co-chair to the UK-led organisation working to overhaul international aid to the continent because he thought African leadership was very weak on the issue, newly released government documents suggest. The singer was scathing about the ability and worthiness of virtually all African leaders before the establishment in 2004 of Blairs , which would produce a report, Our Common Interest, and prompt a landmark pledge by rich nations to boost aid and write off debt.