ETHIOPIA’S ‘SESAME STREET’ WINS EDUCATION MEDIA AWARD
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ETHIOPIAN version of the popular USA television show 'Sesame Street' has won an UNESCO award for showing how televised puppetry can promote children's learning in developing countries. 'Tsehai Loves Learning', which screens on Ethiopian national television ETV features a knowledge hungry giraffe called Tsehai and his friend Mr Turtle. Their adventures unfurl within computer graphics resembling the Ethiopian outdoors. As well as using their stories to teach letters, numbers and shapes in the country's dominant language Amharic, the programme ...
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