Bill Clinton (left) arrives on stage as Bono impersonates him at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York yesterday. Photo / AP
Bono has spoken about being chased down the street by German anarchists wielding placards shouting "Make Bono history!"
The U2 frontman, who yesterday appeared alongside former United States President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, said he was confronted during the G8 summit by protesters who
turned the "Make poverty history" slogan against him.
He told the Observer: "Even as I was running for my life, I thought [it] was a pretty good line." He said that in the same week he was booed on stage in Arusha, Tanzania, at the TED conference which he had campaigned to have there.
"I had a great week not long ago. I was booed by the young entrepreneurs in the audience who thought I was peddling this idea of a supplicant Africa, which I happen to think couldn't be further from the truth.
"So, we're doing something right - we're annoying both the capitalists in Africa and the anti-capitalists in Europe. The thing is I'm not an idealist, never was, I'm just quite pragmatic about finding solutions."
