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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Greg Evans

Bob Geldof rejects idea that Live Aid was part of a ‘white saviour complex’

Bob Geldof has rejected the idea that he is a “white saviour” due to his charity work in Africa.

The Irish musician and activist has found himself described as such since the Eighties, when he first began raising awareness of the famine in Ethiopia.

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