We are all the same a story of a boys courage and a mothers love written by jim wooten is an extraordinary true story that takes the reader on a life altering quest through poverty and disease stricken south africa during the late 1980s and early 1990s just as the aids pandemic was taking flight the story follows the lives of two seemingly . We are all the same a story of a boys courage and a mothers love by jim wooten 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 those afflicted did not know. We are all the same a story of a boys courage and a mothers love james t wooten the global battle against aids is set against the life and death of nkosi johnson a young south african boy who despite having been born with the ailment became a symbol of the struggle against . We are all the same a story of a boys courage and a mothers love by jim t wooten publisher penguin group usa november 2004 isbn 1594200289 my hero recommends this book to young adult readers from the publisher the extraordinary story of nkosi johnson the south african boy born with aids whose stouthearted insistence that every childs life is important brought great change to . We are all the same a story of a boys courage and a mothers love review somers evelyn 2006 05 07 000000 dimeter yet shapiro not only writes convincingly in this meter he writes in the high style is this it love so long bereft weve had to teach ourselves to make oasis of the in between where no place is not dwelling but arriving ever thirsty stumbling near and nearer till