We’ve been prompted to write this post by the recent controversy around the 40th anniversary of Band Aid – with the re-release of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ having provoked criticism from Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora. In his Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/03/criticism-bob-geldof-band-aid-charity-single-africa-caused-storm-fuse-odg) Fuse ODG complains that the single ‘inadvertently contributed toContinue reading “Band Aids or Workers Control – some reflections from the BLDS Legacy on the current controversy”
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The British Library for Development Studies Legacy Collection 