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COPYRIGHT 2007 Professors World Peace Academy
RACE AGAINST TIME (CBC MASSEY LECTURES SERIES)
Stephen Lewis
Toronto, Anansi Canada, 2005
216 pages, paper, $25.50
In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis enlightens the world on the AIDS epidemic, which is the first threat of the African continent. The five speeches included in the book are for more than scratching the surface of a number of critical issues.
In the first section of the book, Lewis, as a part-time Canadian envoy of United Nations UN in Africa, put on the forefront the historical context of HIV/AIDS predicament in Africa. He argues that the developed world should hold unswerving responsibility of the HIV pandemic in Africa. As Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, Lewis does not shy away, as most politicians do, from admitting the Canadian sponsorship scandal and its link to HIV. Acknowledging Canada's governmental responsibility, he says "the real immorality is for one of the most wealthy and privileged countries in the world to fail to respond adequately to the life and death struggle of hundreds of millions of impoverished people.... History will not judge our government kindly" (p.33-35). Lewis recounts how, in 2000, global leaders agreed to eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG), promising the poor such essentials as primary...
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