We Are All The Same - Jim Wooton

This book was very touching.

The story is of a young boy, born in Africa with HIV. By chronicling his life, Wooten allows us to read of the daily struggle of so many people who live with HIV/AIDS in a country that ignores their plight. From the loss of his birth family when his mother becomes to sick to care for him, his subsequent "adoption" by his foster family, to his struggle for for the simple right to attend school. This young boy was brave enough to speak in opposition to his government's AIDS policy (which was to say that it does not exist despite having the highest infection rates in the world).

Reading this book, puts a very real face on the AIDS pandemic in Africa. That face is the young, brave, warm, loving face of the late Xolani "Nkosi Johnson".