Briefly summarize the song "We Are the World" by Michael Jackson.

We Are
the World was written by the late Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy
Jones. The song was a response to the wide-scale famine which was then occurring in Ethiopia, an
East African country suffering the effects of endemic poverty.

Certain parts
of the world have historically (circa the twentieth century) attracted attention for the wrong
reasons, mainly for their propensity for man-made and natural disasters. During the 1970s and
1980s, Ethiopia was one such case. Government mismanagement combined with drought resulted in a
famine with many deaths and incalculable suffering. The scale of thewas such that most
governments were seemingly paralyzed by inaction. In an effort at both drawing attention to the
plight of the Ethiopian people and raising money for famine relief, Jackson wrote We Are the
World and enlisted scores of well-known recording artists to participate in the
production.