[ZOOKER]

...Western pop stars are so deeply concerned about Africa that they're willing to climb into wacky gear and caterwaul geriatric rock hits in a stadium for a couple of hours every decade. But would they be prepared to outsource the book-keeping for their music publishing to a guy in Ouagadougou or Niamey?

I get letters all the time from Nigerian companies eager to handle my financial transactions.

Just send my account number and they'll get right on it, they say.

[MissionMan]

Steyn is -- as always -- dead on.

No amount of entertainer posturing will cure what ails Africa.

Corruption, dictatorships run amok, below subsistence wages, apathy, climate, diseases.

It is one thing to raise the capital to "help".

It is quite another to get it actually into the hands of someone "in country" that can use it for good.

Most (if not all) of the money they raise will never get to it's desired or advertised destination.