With mid-summer dominated by the spectacle of the Live 8 concerts and the surrounding publicity it generated for the G8 summit of the world’s wealthiest nations, the plight of millions of impoverished Africans was dramatically thrust back into the spotlight.
Commentators and rent-a-quote celebrities briefly flocked to opine about the need to redress the shocking economic imbalance between affluent developed countries and the Third World, before the media tired of the subject and the issue once again fell from the public consciousness.
