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Memory: Once upon a time there was Mbita the Orphan Today I am talking to you about a time that those under 30 cannot know. Cameroonian public television at that time still offered interesting entertainment content. It was also the time when having a television set was still a privilege of civil servants, before the devaluation of the CFA franc and the drastic salary cuts. Television was also a business for wealthy traders and other landowners. Men, women and children would meet on Saturday evenings, sitting on the floor in a living room, hanging on the window bars at the only TV owner in the neighborhood or village, to watch a bunch of jolly fellows in a very Cameroonian television series. Today, I invite you to take a nostalgic leap into the past with our guest, a superstar in Cameroon at that time. If I say Sylvestre Longang? Does that mean anything to you? No, certainly not. And if I say THE ORPHAN? Yes of course it was the title of the cult series of the 1990s on CTV in which our guest was the figurehead. Evocation in this edition of your show Autant le dire.