White Ravens’99/France/78160
Badaoui, Abdel Kader (illus.) 
 Hije gusar = Devinettes tchadiennes
 (Riddles from Chad)
 Saint-Maur: Sépia, 1996. 127pp
 (Carnets du Tchad)
 ISBN 2-907888-85-4
 (Text in Arab. and French)
 Chad - Riddles
 In Africa riddles are part of the traditional literary genre of high culture and play an important role in the
 mental and visual development of children. The Chad riddles, in the form of pictures and short two-line
 stories, depict experiences from daily life using analogy and symbolism and give answer to children’s
 questions about their own bodies, the environment, the animals, human life, world and cosmos, birth and
 death. These 120 riddles written in Arabic transcription and with French translation form a well-rounded
 collection.The very well-arranged, strikingly abstract pen-and-ink illustrations take their inspiration from
 Arabic calligraphy and the heavily stilized rock paintings of the Tibesti Mountains in Chad. (10+) 

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