Bono Takes Issue with Vanity Fair
Bono is taking a page from Vanity Fair. Actually, make that several hundred pages.
The U2 frontman and activist has signed on to guest-edit the magazine's Africa-themed July issue, which will hit newsstands in early June.
"As guest editor, I want Africa to appear an adventure, not a burden, and put faces and personalities to the statistics we read elsewhere," the Dublin native said in a statement.
"Five thousand Africans die every day of a preventable, treatable disease [HIV/AIDS]. If [VF editor-in-chief Graydon Carter], his team, and I succeed, the reader will care more about the daily squandering of these noble, entrepreneurial, optimistic lives, people who are familiar to us in every other way than circumstance."
Or, as he told the New York Times earlier this week, "Africa is sexy and people need to know that."
Go Bono! U2 is the best!
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