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# Don’t Give Up On Us - A Rwandan Experience
- URL: https://www.iqra.ca/2009/don-e2-80-99t-give-up-on-us-a-rwandan-experience/
- Published: 2009-06-14T19:49:01.000Z
- Updated: 2009-06-14T19:59:28.000Z
- Author: iqradotca
- Tags: Ashmead Ali, Lifestyle, Rwanda, Uncategorized

![ashmead-ali](/content/images/wordpress/2009/06/ashmead-ali.jpg "ashmead-ali")(June 14, 2009) – Toronto resident, Ashmead Ali, launched his first book, *Don’t Give Up On Us – A Rwandan Experience,* based on a visit to Rwanda at an event in Scarborough today.

Ali’s outlook in life has made him form an interest in the developing world – in its history, politics, poverty, and injustice. 

In today’s “small” world, where people discuss poverty and international development issues at their dinner tables, Canadians need to have a clearer understanding of these matters. 

This book, using Rwanda as its backdrop, presents a simple and unmuddled understanding of complex issues that afflict the poor African.

Although many books have been written on poverty, they are of a serious nature, with page after page of information that is sometimes difficult for the ordinary reader to understand, to follow, and to remember. 

*Don’t Give Up On Us* reads like a story, in language for anyone to grasp without much effort, but in a serious tone. 

The reader is introduced to: brief geography and history; education; youth; unemployment; small enterprise; trade; health and sanitation; African brain drain and diaspora; the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and their development programs; Africa’s crippling debt; etc. Yet the book still reads like a novel.

![ashmeadali](/content/images/wordpress/2009/06/ashmeadali-120x150.jpg "ashmeadali")“Ashmead Ali has used his time in Rwanda to masterly examine and address important issues that affect poor and rich countries of the world,” said Lama Mugabo, Executive Director, *Building Bridges with Rwanda,* about the book.

“Although Ali arrives with the wide eyes of a novice to Africa, he writes vividly of the poverty and the problems with aid, trade, education and development he encounters, providing a refreshing and hopeful look at a very old topic – how best to “help” Africa – with a kind of clarity that will help readers understand why one of the world’s most promising continents languishes far behind developed nations,” added Karen Palmer, former Africa-based freelance reporter.

Copies of the book can be obtained by e-mailing – [ashmeadaali@yahoo.ca](mailto:ashmeadaali@yahoo.ca)