num_pages: 198
description: "I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, humanitarian Stephen Lewis begins his personal, often searing insider's account of Africa's plight and the wealthy world's betrayal. Lewis recounts how in 2000, global leaders agreed to eight Millennium Development Goals, promising the poor such essentials as primary education, basic health and a reversal of AIDS by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heart-breaking, Lewis shows why and how the promises can't be kept. Race Against Time probes the appalling gap between vision and current reality, but also offers bracingly attainable solutions.
language: English
title: Race Against Time
titlecomplete: Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series)
genres: Medical, Medicine, Science, Essays, Social Justice, Health, Politics, Africa, Canada, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1247
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Non‐Fiction Book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
publisher: House of Anansi Press