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The news that cracked me up this morning. I checked on YouTube but I haven’t found the video which I am looking forward to.\u00a0\u2018Yes we know it\u2019s Christmas\u2019 say African musicians as they finally record a response to Band Aid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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CAPE TOWN. After 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled \u2018Yes we do,\u2019\u00a0 in response to the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid song, \u2018Do they know it\u2019s Christmas?\u2019.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of their song, the musicians praised Geldof\u2019s relentless quest for an answer and said they hoped their collaboration would free the Irishman and his friends to start looking for solutions to new and more important questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Do they know about climate change in America? Or did Kim Jong-il have time to write down the abort codes for the nukes before he died? Or perhaps he can revert to the time-honoured classic \u2013 \u2018Tell me why I don\u2019t like Mondays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of the single, whose proceeds will go towards teaching discipline, literacy and contraception at British schools, composer and singer Boomtown Gundane said that for years he had been irked by Geldof\u2019s assumption that hungry Africans were also stupid.[…]<\/p>\n

Gundane said he hoped that his involvement with the song would turn him into an expert on British politics and economics in the same way \u2018Do they know it\u2019s Christmas\u2019 had turned Geldof and Bono into the world\u2019s leading experts on Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m not sharing a platform with the Queen and David Cameron by this time next year; or headlining at Glastonbury, then I will have done something very wrong,\u201d said Gundane.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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