Bob Geldof rejects 'white saviour' criticism of his charity work in Africa

Bob Geldof has dismissed suggestions that he has a "white saviour complex" because of his charity work.

The 73-year-old musician was the driving force behind both the Live Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? and the Band Aid charity concert which raised awareness of famine in Ethiopia during the 1980s and has scoffed at those who are disparaging of his efforts.

In an interview with the i newspaper, Geldof said of the "white saviour" term: "That doesn't exist.

"That's just a word, a theory like Original Sin."

U2 rocker Bono – who worked closely with Geldof in raising money for Africa – confessed in his 2022 memoir Surrender 40 Songs, One Story that he considered some of Band Aid's work to be tone deaf but the Boomtown Rats frontman has dismissed "woke" criticism of the charity work.