Is Band Aid perpetuating Africa's image problem?

The logo of Band Aid Thirty at the launch of the 30th anniversary version of the Band Aid charity single 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' in Berlin on Nov 13, 2014. - AFP

Instead of more stereotypes of poor Africans, celebrities could highlight the geo-political problems that allowed a disease like Ebola to spread so far and so fast on that continent.

TEN days ago, celebrity musicians came together in Britian to record a new version of 1980s hit Do They Know It’s Christmas. Bob Geldof and Midge Ure galvanised a new generation of artists, like One Direction and Elbow, to raise money for the Ebola crisis (go to bandaid30.com to donate).