Let's badger them to hell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1403477,00.html
Only a renegotiation of the west's relationship with the continent will
qualify as a breakthrough
Madeleine Bunting
Wednesday February 2, 2005
The Guardian
All the elements are in place - or almost all - for a breakthrough year
on Africa. We have the much-vaunted commitment of Tony Blair and Gordon
Brown to spend their political capital on this - and now is not the
time or place to quibble over the mixture of motives that includes the
UK's much-needed international rehabilitation after the debacle of
Iraq. Political opportunities often have such shabby births, the
crucial issue is to keep eyes focused on the prize: will they deliver?
Meanwhile, the tectonic plates that underpin international politics
look as if they could shift given the right degree of pressure. And to
explode the whole issue on to the public imagination, there is a
massive cultural festival, Africa 05, sprawling across Britain for the
next 10 months.
Madeleine Bunting
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