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Description for Nkosi's Story
Paperback.
This is the story of a small black boy and his indomitable white mother's courageous battle against Aids. Nkosi's biological mother was dying when Gail Johnson took the two-year-old into her home. We are shown a moving portrait of a fight that is both intensely personal - as mother and son work to keep Nkosi's ailing immune system from collapsing - and regrettably political, as they engage government policy and the ignorance of a sector of their community. Nkosi has become an international icon on issues related to HIV/Aids and children's rights. He was posthumously awarded The World's Children's Prize ... Read more
This is the story of a small black boy and his indomitable white mother's courageous battle against Aids. Nkosi's biological mother was dying when Gail Johnson took the two-year-old into her home. We are shown a moving portrait of a fight that is both intensely personal - as mother and son work to keep Nkosi's ailing immune system from collapsing - and regrettably political, as they engage government policy and the ignorance of a sector of their community. Nkosi has become an international icon on issues related to HIV/Aids and children's rights. He was posthumously awarded The World's Children's Prize ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780864865335
SKU
V9780864865335
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Ref
99-2
About Jane Fox
Author Jane Fox brings intimate, beautiful prose to the story. Her short stories and poems have appeared in anthologies, literary magazines and the collection, The Dancer and Other Poems (Snailpress, 1992). Her novel, The Killing Bottle, was published to acclaim by David Philip in 1999.
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