VOA常速英语:埃塞俄比亚版飞天小女警？看超级女侠如何拯救世界

Bruktawit Tigabu is the creator of "Tibeb Girls", the first animation in which Ethiopian girls play not only the lead characters,but are portrayed as superheroes, "Tibeb" means wisdom in Amharic.
Bruktawit Tigabu是“Tibeb Girls”的创作人，这部动画片创下了两个第一，因为它不仅是由埃塞俄比亚女孩担纲主角，还把这些女孩全都塑造成了超级英雄。在阿姆拉哈语中，“Tibeb”的意思就是智慧。

For me, it was very important to have, you know,girls who look like me and who look like my child to be on the screen playing very good role model."
“对我来说，让那些跟我或者我的孩子一样的女孩子出现在大屏幕上，并且树立一个好榜样是非常重要的。”

The "Tibeb Girls" animation breaks taboos by discussing things such as menstruation ,and in the first episode, they save a girl from child marriage.
“Tibeb Girls”勇于打破各种禁忌，在片中还讨论了例假等话题，而且在第一集中，她们还合力将一个小女孩从童婚中解救了出来。

Bruktawit screens the show at schools and events around Ethiopia.
Bruktawit将这部动画搬上了埃塞俄比亚各学校和大型活动的大荧幕上。

Most of the issues we are raising are not well discussed in the community or in school or in the house.So that is another inspiration to really break the taboo and give them a very entertaining,but also engaging way to talk about very serious subject."
“我们提出的大部分问题，无论是在社区、学校还是家里都尚未被深入讨论过。所以这也是我灵感的另一个来源，引导我去真正地打破禁忌，以娱乐的形式来给他们提供一种有趣的办法，进而再去讨论这个严肃的话题。”

The animation is produced in Addis Ababa with a team of voice actors, artists and writers.
这部动画片在亚的斯亚贝巴制作，团队成员包括配音演员、导演和编剧等。

Representing and empowering girls is a big responsibility.Therefore the writers, such as Mahlet Haileyesus, put a lot of preparation into an episode.
要代表女孩并且给予她们力量责任重大。因而编剧们，比如Mahlet Haileyesus在制作每一集时都会做大量准备工作。

So what we do is we try to include everybody, like the relevant stakeholders, government bureaus, the specific target groups.And then once the synopsis is developed, we do prototyping, which means we go to the field and test it."
“我们努力把所有人都包括在内，比如相关利益群体、政府部门和特定的目标群体等。列完简单的摘要之后，我们就开始进行原型测试，也就是说去实地考察。”

The "Tibeb Girls" animation is also published as a cartoon.Meaza Takele reads the comic strip to her children each night before they go to bed.
“Tibeb Girls”动画片现在也在出版漫画。每天晚上孩子睡觉之前，Meaza Takele都会给他们读一部分。

When I ask my children why they love the cartoon,they say it’s because now they have a cartoon that is Ethiopian and where their own language is spoken."
“当我问孩子们为什么喜欢这部漫画时，他们说，因为埃塞俄比亚终于有一部自己的漫画了，而且里面说的还都是我们自己的语言。”

Creator Bruktawit hopes to raise funds to further develop the TV show,as she tries to sell the first season to broadcasters in Ethiopia and other African countries where young girls face the same issues.
创作人Bruktawit希望能够募集资金，从而进一步发展这档电视节目，因为她正试图把第一季出售给埃塞俄比亚和其他非洲国家的广播公司，这些国家的年轻女孩子都面临着同样的问题。

Marthe van der Wolf, for VOA news, Addis Ababa.
VOA新闻，玛尔特.范.德.沃尔夫于亚的斯亚贝巴为您播报。