Nyanga Tshabalala and Elmo
Nyanga Tshabalala is an internationally accomplished puppeteer, puppet trainer, writer and director. He performs Zikwe on Takalani Sesame, South Africa's Sesame Street co-production. He also performed Zobi, the version of Zikwe that appeared on Nigeria's Sesame Square and in Ghana's Techiques for Effective Teaching instructional videos. He was also one of six South Africans who spent six-month affiliations with Sesame Workshop to studied multi-media educational programming and trained with Jim Henson Productions in New York on Muppet making and costume design.
He is fluent in English, IsiZulu, Sesotho, IsiXhosa, Siswazi, Afrikaans, and Setswana.