Cane Worker

Randy Olson

Aurora / National Geographic Society

This sugar cane migrant worker is a war refugee from the south of Sudan. Osama Bin Laden built the most modern infrastructure in Sudan. Although this is the largest country in Africa, Sudan's people are impoverished, so they could not pay him cash. Osama took income from the share-cropping of this sugar cane area to pay the bills for roads and airports.

Randy Olson, "Cane Worker," in POYi Archive, Item #32648, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/32648 (accessed November 23, 2024).