Many British governmental and non-governmental organisations openly declare their concerns about and interest in the Eradication of Poverty in Afrika and other parts of the World. Tony Blair took such concerns right up to the setting up of his Commission for Africa, which published its 2005 Report entitled "Our Common Interest". Bob Geldof and Bono have gainfully popularised themselves in Europe and the Americas, with their self-promotional fronting of the Live Aid and other concerts, as well as the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History campaigning jamborees, as the "leading Celebrity Tribunes of the West against Poverty in Africa".
There is no denying the fact that these schemes have attracted considerable support in Britain. Nevertheless, most Afrikans, including Ghanaians, particularly those who are actively campaigning and working at home and abroad against the Impoverishment of the masses of their own people, keep expressing strong cynicism, together with the dismissal of such Live Aid, Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History schemes as mere diversionary gimmicks to throw "Stardust" into the eyes of the World. Many critics also believe that such schemes are purposely designed to spread the kind of obscurantism that can blind people not only to the actual root-causes of Poverty, but also to the grassroots Resistance actions of the Poor themselves to completely eradicate, and not simply to partially alleviate, Poverty. Many Ghanaians point to the abysmal failure only recently of the IMF/World Bank scheme of the so-called HIPC to reduce Poverty, let alone seriously empower them, as their own experientially lived proof of the emptiness of the spurious outcomes of such scandalously fraudulent gimmicks as the "stardusty" Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History deceptive campaigns and similar cruel jokes that are being perpetrated against the Poor in Afrika by most of the mainstream British governmental and non-governmental organisations, charities and self-assuring philanthropists. No wonder that opposition to what some deem "Eurocentric Schemes of Northern Establishment Grand Deception" is accelerating, particularly now that Resistance to them is becoming not only more sophisticatedly polished academically by Think Tanks like the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Pan-Afrikan and Global Studies (KNIPAGS), but also galvanized with more dynamically innovative grassroots Scholar-Activism by the likes of ABAHLALI BaseMjondolo and its allies of the Poor People's Alliance of South Africa (PPASA) and the MMOBOROWAHALA Grassroots Resistance Against Impoverishment Network (M-GRAIN) and its allies of the ADIEYIEMANFO Movement of Positive Action Networks in Ghana.
