Book Report: We Are All The Same

We Are All The Same We Are All The Same is a nonfiction book in October 2005 and written by Jim Wooten. Wooten is a senior correspondent for ABC News. Wooten has been to Africa numerous of times but there was one trip that changed his life forever. This particular trip he meets a young boy by the name of Xolani Nkosi. The book follows his life even before he was born. The beginning gives a backstory on his family and how they got their current living situation. His mother has AIDS and through that birth, Nkosi contracts the same disease. His mother and Nkosi were not in good health so, the boy is given up for adoption. The Johnson’s, a white family in Johannesburg, adopt him. They change his name to Nkosi Johnson. Nkosi has low expectations on how

Daphne hardly gained any weight. She was 8 months pregnant and people could not tell she was pregnant. There were no scales to weight the baby but her guess was 4, maybe 5 pounds at most. Over the course of those couple of years, Daphne had contracted the deadly virus. “He introduced into her young body something much more vital than his semen. He had impregnated her with death” (29). There was no cure for the disease, still to this day there is not. There were medications to prolong one’s life. Daphne could not understand why her baby was constantly so sick, why he wasn’t healthy like the first birth. Many parts of Africa were making advances in educating and setting up clinic for HIV/AIDS, South Africa on the other hand was progressing at a much slower rate. The president insisted that the medication for the disease was poison. This was during the apartheid and everything was only for whites or others. Daphne made the brave decision to cross over to a white only section of the country to find answers and treatment for her baby. There was a kind doctor who gave her the unfortunate news that they had the