I had travelled to Chad with an uneasy feeling, not expecting much, the least that I could leave the capital N’Djamena to see a bit of the countryside. I think most people in Europe connect it with misery, hunger and terror. But there would be much more: It’s a country with unbelievable desert landscapes like the Aenne Du in the Sahel and the wildlife-rich landscapes in the south where huge herds of elephants still roam. Thanks to the terrorists of Boko Haram both places were off limits. I found N’Djamena itself is a dusty Wüstenkaff which did not make much of its location on the river Chad. Travelling always involves meeting great  people. In N’Djamena it was my resourceful driver Abakar who surprisingly found a safe way of organizing a day trip to the myriad waterways of Lake Chad, a wonder in the Sahel.  On our retour to the capital I met an entertaining Chadian family wo was enjoying a river-side picnic under shady trees. Theiir daughter Asiya was one of her kind. Neither fitted her attire into the usual African-Islamic dress code nor her talent to pose. ln Koran Asiya appears as spouse of the pharaoh during the reign of Moses. Apart from Maria (mother of Jesus), Khadija (spouse of Mohammed) and Fatima (daughter of Mohammed) she is reverred as one of the most important women in Islam.