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It has been twenty years since USA for Africa helped raise money and awareness of the staggering level of famine and poverty in Africa. With the recently concluded Live8 concert and discussion at the G8 Summit in Scotland including a focus on Africa, we'll look at past and present aid efforts. Laura's guest is Jack Shepherd, Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Africa Foreign Study Program at Dartmouth College, who has lived in several African countries and is the author of ten books, including "The Politics of Starvation" about famine in Ethiopia. Laura's other guest is Ed Bustin, Professor of Political Science for the African Studies Center at Boston University. He is the founder and Director of the Francophone Africa Research Group at B.U. Bustin has authored several books on Africa and has been a consultant on higher education and democratization in Zaire for the Rockefeller Foundations and for USAID. He has studied and lived in twelve African countries.