Race Against Time Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

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Synopsis

"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help.

Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals.

This edition includes an afterword by Lewis, covering events after the lectures were delivered in fall 2005.

Book details

Edition:
2
Series:
The CBC Massey Lectures
Author:
Stephen Lewis
ISBN:
9780887848759
Related ISBNs:
9780887847530, 9781770897397
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc.
Pages:
224
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2021-11-19
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2006
Copyright by:
Stephen Lewis Associates Ltd. and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Health, Mind and Body, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies