高貴な目的？！と 弱者の再構成

（引用記事を日本語で要約をする気力がないので英語のままです。）

サミットにあわせて行われた「ライブ８」。
わたしは全然追っていなかったのだが、２，３日前にyahoo.comに「トーキョーの観客はメッセージがわかってるの？」みたいな記事が載っていてとても頭に来た。
しかし、考えてみれば、そのような論調になるのもわかるような気がする。
西洋のお金持ち白人の高貴な方々がやっていることだから、日本人にはビミョーだよね。

Guardianのコラムから抜粋　（抜粋・強調はわたし。）
Madeleine Bunting　　（Monday July 4, 2005）
Madeleine Bunting: Humiliated once more | Politics | The Guardian

What the past few weeks have reinforced in popular perception is the absurd simplification of an entire continent so that it is explicable in terms of just four adjectives: picturesque, pitiful, psychopathic and, above all, passive. This is the formula used by such interlocutors as Bob Geldof and Rolf Harris (the BBC seems to think we won't watch Africa without a white face to show us around).

An entire continent has been reduced to a "scar on the conscience of the world", stripped of its dignity and left more powerless than at any intervening point since 1787. The images we saw of Africans at Live 8 on Saturday were the dying, the starving and the desperately impoverished.

It is almost as if the west can't accept African agency: we want the simplification of the four Ps because it so neatly caters for our fears, derived from the colonial history of the "dark continent" of Joseph Conrad fame. Is this the price that has to be paid for an instant of western attention?

Blair's Africa agenda is yet another expression of what Professor John Lonsdale, the Cambridge historian of Africa, described in a lecture last week as "the self-righteously civilising mission of the past two centuries" of Europe towards its neighbour. He concluded that "it is a construction that infantilises not only Africans, unable to fend for themselves, but us too, like babies demanding the instant gratification of self-importance".

If we recognised the immensity of this achievement of human endeavour over thousands of years, it might help to dismantle the self-satisfied superiority by which the west lays claim to a monopoly on concepts of progress and development. We - Africans and westerners - might begin to reframe the debate and ask ourselves if it isn't the grossly polluting G8 which is a scar on the conscience of the world.

こうした動きの裏で,,,(black looksの記事)
http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/07/we_are_not_whal.html

First of all only 18 countries are covered of which 16 are in Africa when in fact there are some 60 plus countries that should be relieved of their debt.

For each 1$ of debt relief, each country will loose 1$ in new aid from the International Development Association/World Bank. So what they give with one hand they take away with the other.

The worst aspect of the debt cancellation are the conditionalities imposed on those selected countries. What is presented as "charity" is in fact more money for the West:
allowing foreign investment
removing obstacles to foreign investment
cooperation with the "war on terror"
purchase of Western goods (nearly 70% of US aid money is tied to the purchase of US products and in Italy 100% of aid is tied to the purchase of Italian goods).

The new deal for Africa is the same as the old deal - nothing has changed. "The G8's interest in Africa is summed up in a 2003 World Bank report that identifies sub-Saharan Africa as the most profitable place in the world for direct foreign investment" - that is where the truth lies.

上は、イギリス・アメリカを中心にした議論である。
さてさて、繰り返しになるが、日本は大きな債権国であったと思うし、「協力」もしてきたと思うのだが、どこの国・地域へどうやってどういう風に「負債」が渡って、誰によって使われているのか、
　　　とか
そもそもどういう投資性を見込んでいるのか、とか。、、だってきれいごとではなく投資してんでしょ？　　　とか
日本政府は今後どういう方針で、どのような協力をしていくのか。
ということを知るのが、どうしてどうしてこんなに難しいのだろうか。知りたい意志と時間と余裕がある人だけが、探し回ることによってのみ、知りうるかもしれないなんて。
　
もしも問題意識を持っている人がいるとして、その人がその問題意識をもって行動できる対象が「ライブ８」しかない（それしか情報がないから）としたら、それこそ問題ではないでしょうか？

どうしてもっと記事にしないのですか？　

この方も、、、、

ガダフィ大佐
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has told other African leaders to "stop begging" for Western charity. 　
BBC NEWS | Africa | Stop begging, Africa leaders told　（4 July, 2005）

Well said.
"Africa's new best friends"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1521387,00.html
The US and Britain are putting the multinational corporations that created poverty in charge of its relief
George Monbiot (Tuesday July 5, 2005 The Guardian)