allesennogwat
08-23-2010, 10:36 AM
LAGOS, Nigeria – It looks a lot like "Sesame Street," only that's no Cookie Monster.
"What is so exciting about yams? Everything!" Zobi, a taxi-driving muppet, shouts in a Nigerian lilt to anyone who will listen. "I can fry the yam. I can toast it. I can boil it. I love yams!"
"Sesame Street," once a mainstay for a generation of Nigerian children who grew up with the U.S. show on the state-run TV network, will return to screens in Africa's most populous nation this fall, funded by American taxpayers but distinctively Nigerian.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100823/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_sesame_street
"What is so exciting about yams? Everything!" Zobi, a taxi-driving muppet, shouts in a Nigerian lilt to anyone who will listen. "I can fry the yam. I can toast it. I can boil it. I love yams!"
"Sesame Street," once a mainstay for a generation of Nigerian children who grew up with the U.S. show on the state-run TV network, will return to screens in Africa's most populous nation this fall, funded by American taxpayers but distinctively Nigerian.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100823/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_sesame_street