Wednesday, July 22, 2009

TED Talks: Bono on AIDS in Africa

Back in Feb. 2005, U2 lead singer and co-founder of the ONE campaign, Bono, accepted the TED Prize and offered a provocative talk with this challenge:

“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa and say this and mean it: We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off. We do not have to stand for this..."[Timestamp: 11:40]

1 comment:

Andrew said...

Want to know what's become of Bono's three wishes/challenges to the world since he raised them back in 2005? Take a look: http://www.ted.com/pages/view/d/154