What are Bob’s links with Africa?
In 1985, Geldof organised Live Aid to raise money for the Ethiopian famine and in 1986, Geldof was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2005, Bob Geldof organised Live8, a series of concerts which ran alongside the Make Poverty History campaign and reinforced the aims of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa. Live8 sought to put pressure on world leaders at the G8 summit in Gleneagles to drop the debt of the world’s poorest nations, increase and improve aid, and negotiate fairer trade rules in the interest of poorer countries. Sir Bob Geldof is still popularly venerated in the UK for his work in Africa. He was a Nobel Prize Nominee in 2005 and was honoured with the 2005 Nobel Man of Peace award. He also received a European human rights prize in recognition of his campaign efforts against Third World poverty made by the Council of Europe-backed North-South Centre that recognises “exceptional commitment” to human rights. In the same year he was also made an Honorary Pat
