Nigeria tailor-makes a yam-packed 'Sesame Street'

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/..._sesame_street

KalashnikovMarine · 08-23-2010, 02:02 PM

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what the fuck?

GDR_ak47 · 08-23-2010, 03:19 PM

A show about yams?

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YAMS?

Wtf....

RG Coburn · 08-23-2010, 04:27 PM

How many people in Nigeria have electricity,let alone a television? Do they still use alalog TV or digital? I should think a radio program more apt.
I wonder what the bill to all this adds up to?

08-23-2010, 10:36 AM	#1
allesennogwat Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 3738 Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 32,441	Nigeria tailor-makes a yam-packed 'Sesame Street' 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/..._sesame_street __________________ Daraclor: A brand of anti-malaria pills which we had to drink every week while on the border. Legend had it that these would make you turn yellow and that you wouldn't be able to tan.

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KalashnikovMarine Veteran Member AKaholic #: 54613 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Around Posts: 1,371	.... .......... what the fuck? __________________ "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Thomas Jefferson Bona Na Croin: Neither Collar Nor Crown Sight alignment, breath, slow steady squeeze, life is simple Marine, Oath Keeper, Gun Owner

08-23-2010, 03:19 PM	#3
GDR_ak47 Veteran Member AKaholic #: 63483 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: America Posts: 1,393	A show about yams? ......... YAMS? Wtf.... __________________ "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. " -George Washington

08-23-2010, 04:27 PM	#4
RG Coburn Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 7184 Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,672	How many people in Nigeria have electricity,let alone a television? Do they still use alalog TV or digital? I should think a radio program more apt. I wonder what the bill to all this adds up to?

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