The wrath of Zoa the elephant
Audio 03:55
zoa-elephant © FMM
7 mins
That day, from the savannah to the African equatorial forest, it is hot, very hot.
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Zoa the elephant is thirsty.
So He goes to a nearby water point.
He is about to plunge his trunk into it when suddenly, his right eye pops out of the socket and plunges into the water.
Panicked, he quickly plunges his trunk to recover his eye.
In doing so, he stirs the water so well that all the mud that was at the bottom rises to the surface.
The water becomes cloudy and the eye cannot be found.
He is about to descend with his two big paws into the water when suddenly Ononònò, the little bird, perched on the branch of a tree next to it, says to him:
“Oh Elephant, don't do that!
The elephant gets angry:
"What, who are you to suggest anything to me when I lose my eye?"
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Mad with anger, the elephant threshed the tree where the little bird was perched, but the little bird had not waited and had flown to perch on a tree much further.
So on, the bird in the air, the elephant on the ground, so angry that he doesn't realize, that he has no chance of reaching the bird up there.
It ends up devastating a whole part of the forest before finally collapsing from exhaustion.
This is the moment that Ononònò the little bird chooses to tell him:
“Oh elephant!
I am sorry to have caused such anger.
I just wanted to suggest that you don't go down with your two big paws in the murky water at the risk of crushing your eye ”.
The elephant, sheepish, replies:
"Oh, I didn't understand"
In the meantime, calm has returned.
Both go to the water point.
The water has become clear because all the mud has come down to the bottom.
The elephant sees its eye clearly and delicately recovers it with its trunk and sticks it in the orbit.
It is exactly the same thing that happens when a human allows himself to be led by anger. His mind becomes cloudy and reason ... nowhere to be found.
Credits:
The wrath of Zoa the elephant
A tale by Binda Ngazolo.
Music: Jean Sempé Ake Olloé
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Storytelling research and adaptations: Flore Kra, Valérie Gobey, Eugène Konan and Elvis Tanoh.
Associate production company: Sonia Arruda Touré, Romain Masson
Production assistant: Romain Chmiela, Eugène Konan,
Assistant director: Elvis Tanoh.
Director: Laure Egoroff and Tidiane Thiang.
Thanks to Thomas Weill, Yanick Zagba, Sony Music Africa, Stéphane Dogbo, and the RFI teams.
With the support of the "Accès Culture" program of the French Development Agency and the French Institute.
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