Does this sound familiar?
It’s bedtime but you don’t want to sleep.
Your mother has just told you one last story
and wants to leave the room.
As a delaying tactic, you ask all kinds of questions
to which there are no easy answers.
Why is the squirrel so mean to the elephant?
And can the swallow really predict the future?
And why has the turtle gone into the dark forest?
“Now just shut your eyes,” says my mother,
“and ask the wise old Amadou. He has all the answers.”
“But who is Amadou, and why do I always have to ask him ever…..”.
The door closes, the light goes out!

Later, much later, I discover that Amadou did indeed exist.
That he had bright-blue eyes and kept a magic journal
in which you really can find the answers to all your questions.

I set off in search of that book…

Amadou is a roller coaster of a musical road trip inspired by West-African fairytales passed down orally and by the work of Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Amadou is a pilgrimage to a posse of prattling aunts, desert singers and talking baobab trees.

Storyteller Aminata Demba gathers the spectators around her in an intimate space and takes them with her on an exciting journey in search of Amadou’s book room.

Amadou is an ode to the art of storytelling. It deals with what it is to be human. To grow up. To live together and to walk the path of life. The audience is taken along on that feeling, looking, tasting, thinking and listening journey.