Amadou

Do you know that feeling?

It's bedtime and you don't want to sleep.

Your mother has just finished telling a last story and is about to leave the room.

You try to pass the time by asking all kinds of questions

which cannot be answered in a jiffy.

Why is the squirrel so mean to the elephant?

And can the swallow really predict the future?

And why did the water turtle enter the dark forest?

“Now close your eyes,” says my mother, “and ask the old, wise Amadou.

He has all the answers.'

'But who is Amadou, and why do I always have to ask him everything...'

Close the door, turn off the lights...!

Later, much later, I discover that Amadou really existed.

That he had bright blue eyes and a magical diary

where you will really find all the answers to all your questions.

I went looking for that book…