http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqh6x29bc64 in this video bono blesses rockers tinariwen. because in africa bono is the king, president,vice president, general and prime-minister nobody is allowed to play popular music without first being jumped in by bono in a ritual where the king comes on stage and performs his irish version of subtle pan african dance moves, bono yells slogans like "freedom" during the performance which indicates that the band is now free to play their music, having been initiated by the monarch