Let me describe some photographs from the book The Cradle of Inequality with texts by Cristovam Buarque and photos by Sebastião Salgado.8 On the cover of the book a girl, sitting in a dark classroom, is concentrating on taking notes. She might be about 7 years of age. She is wearing a white dress; she has bare feet; she looks poor. Inside the book we see several scenes representing similarly poignant moments. We see a photograph of a group of young people sitting in the shadow of big trees. They are refugees from the Sudan who have arrived in Kenya. Together with a blackboard balancing on an easel, the shadows of the trees make up the classroom. A camel is passing by on the outskirts of the classroom.