We Are All The Same: A Story Of A Boy's Courage And A Mother's Love

Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born with AIDS, was given only a few years to live, but his ailing mother crossed her country's divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson who raised him for his last year of life. Nkosi, in Nelson Mandela's words, was "an icon of the struggle for life."

Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and "Nightline" Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a shantytown and given only a few years to live. But his ailing mother managed to cross her countryas divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson, who would raise him for her. Before his own death at the age of twelve, Nkosi had become, in Nelson Mandelaas words, aan icon of the struggle for lifea for millions in Africa and around the world. And he had changed Wootenas life in ways Wooten is still discovering. "We Are All the Same" is a work of Biblical simplicity and power that reveals the astonishing resilience of the human spirit.