We Are All the Same is a book written by Jim Wooten, the senior correspondent for ABC News’s Nightline. According to the book, in 2002, he is award for Excellence in Journalism. The book written in modern English literature, and perfectly describe about poverty and the most dangerous disease in Africa. The book started by report the situation on people in Africa and how they survived with the Apartheid society.
First of all, people have a very hard time in struggling with apartheid society, a society that looks down the value of their own people. Moreover, in this society people name is not matter to others. A woman worked on book store, she had asked a foreigner to pay the book bill when he already paid it. This small mistake made her boss fired her; the kind and gentle foreigner asked about her name, and actually her boss don’t even know her name. Africa was place that people name is not matter, not only their name but many other things that were not matter because they had something more important to concern and that was foods. In the early of the book, express how dark of this place. People are really afraid of starving, a baby girl in Ruth family was born on one of them, and years later she learned to say was “Kodwa silambile”, it mean we are hungry. Normally, in many others societies, people are concern about their children to go to school when they in the age of learning, but not for Zulus or some part of Africa. Education was not important to them because they had no any other reason to concern about education while they were starving.
Later the book focuses on a disease, an unknown disease at that time. This disease had infected to men, women, and children of Africa. Millions of them had infected in this disease in which they don’t know what disease is that. They just knew that it is a tired disease, thin disease or skin disease. It was AID. Later on Daphne’s son and daughters also infected by this disease. In which this book is mainly focus on the boy that can live for ten years because of this killing disease, is a tragedy to the little boy and to all Africa that infected without their knowledge.
Africa is a dark place that we couldn’t know or heard about. However, Jim Wooten made a well report there, so that we can know and remember their name (African) once again. This book really made the difference in their life because it written perfectly to let all the others and new generation to know about what their life was in apartheid, a cruel society.
We should appreciate what Jim Wooten had done in this well report, it just like something that we actually had heard or saw in our own by this report. It just recalled of a tragedy death by disease, and starving of the innocent that can see the earth for only ten years or a bit longer or even a bit shorter. I express it in several ways so that people can know or remember about this book, and keep continue recommend it to one another and even their children in the future to just read this book, and keep it.
