Africa discovered

Top stories of 2005 | Live8, G8, and other greats | Priya Abraham

Africa, a trend? Apparently oxymorons can come true. The year saw an assortment of celebrities—from Live8 rockers to G8 leaders to billionaire Bill Gates and evangelical heavyweights like Rick Warren—demanding a sudden end to the lost continent's poverty.

Live8 organizer Bob Geldof launched a worldwide summer concert series to pressure political honchos to unload their public pockets. Just days before G8 leaders met in Scotland, 10 star-packed concerts July 2 spread out from Philadelphia to Berlin to London to Tokyo in performances before an audience estimated at 3 billion. Pink Floyd reunited for its first performance in 21 years; Will Smith was beamed worldwide leading concert-goers in snapping their fingers every three seconds to symbolize Africa's child death rate.

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