'Pompous, patronizing, paternalistic, a celebrity colonialist, Bono's got a fetishized obsession w/Africa's ability to give him 'a sense of purpose.' [paraphrases/various]. "Because Africa seems unfinished...a landscape on which a person can sketch a new
Bono's hubristic declaration that he "he represents a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all …. They haven’t asked me to represent them. It’s cheeky but I hope they’re glad I do' smacks of celebrity colonialism–a rather glamorized ba
N. Steensgaard. Companies and trade: Essays on overseas trading companies during the ancien régime, page 245--264. Leiden, Leiden University Press, (1981)