It's about child-soldiering in Africa, the legacy of King Leopold's ghost, and [the work of] groups like InvisibleChildren.com. ... This historical legacy of imperialism and colonialism, and all the ethnic warfare that is part of that. The whole world needs to wake up and follow through with promises and make it right – also beyond Africa, in Third World nations and depressed and manipulated economies. Places that are fractured, places that were never meant to be one region but their borders were drawn on a table 12,000 miles away.
Great song, my personal favorite from Iron Front.
Quoting Thomas Barnett:
It's about child-soldiering in Africa, the legacy of King Leopold's ghost, and [the work of] groups like InvisibleChildren.com. ... This historical legacy of imperialism and colonialism, and all the ethnic warfare that is part of that. The whole world needs to wake up and follow through with promises and make it right – also beyond Africa, in Third World nations and depressed and manipulated economies. Places that are fractured, places that were never meant to be one region but their borders were drawn on a table 12,000 miles away.