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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
By the late 1980s AIDS had become an epidemic.
The dreaded disease
was particularly devastating to black South Africans, segregated by
race, poverty and cruel social stigma.
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Those afflicted did not know
the name of this illness; they called it "the thin disease." They
knew only that to contract it was to receive a death
sentence.
Veteran news correspondent Jim Wooten had spent much time reporting
war, strife and upheaval on the African continent.
It is through
Jim's eyes, ears and soul that Nkosi Johnson's story is revealed.
In February 1989 a tiny, sickly baby boy was born to Daphne, a
single teenager living in poverty in a remote village with no name
in what had once been Zululand.
Daphne contracted AIDS during this
second pregnancy, so at birth her baby was already destined to
suffer.
While more developed parts of the world were setting up AIDS care
centers, shelters and ho