The two-week intervention involved primary school students (mean age=7.1 years) who were randomized into two groups (intervention and comparison group). Akili and Me had not started broadcasting on television in Rwanda, at the time in which the intervention started and the episodes were reformatted using Kinyarwanda to allow for full participation from the kids. The first few minutes of every episode presented a Kinyarwanda-speaking narrator to guide children. The content comprised 4–6 introduced English vocabulary words throughout the storyline, letter-identification songs, fine motor skills for drawing and writing, story time, and numeracy. Numeracy was presented in both English and Kinyarwanda languages. Findings from the study showed that kids who watched Akili and Me in Kinyarwanda achieved significant learning outcomes compared to kids who watched other cartoons for the same duration of time. This means that kids across Africa can still learn from our edutainment when we adapt them into local languages.
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