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00:00:04Étoile des champs, it is the reflection of the colors of the genius of
00:00:08Congolese agricultural
00:00:09producers.
00:00:14a production of Télé Congo, presentation
00:00:18Michel
00:00:22Brazzaville within the Ministry of Pombo.
00:00:23Agriculture and Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, nowadays,
00:00:26Michel Dulsine Pombou, journalist.
00:00:30producer of the famous show Étoile des
00:00:33champs, honors, pride, and
00:00:36respectability of Congolese agricultural producers, it is a
00:00:40tribute that we pay to all
00:00:42the host of the agents of the Ministry of
00:00:43capital, and then the Agriculture, because it is a common struggle that we have
00:00:46led to reach this stage, and we dare to believe
00:00:49that the example that we have started will
00:00:52be pursued with dignity by our
00:00:55successors in production and
00:00:58reporting and which... aims to promote
00:01:02the agriculture
00:01:03of Congo.
00:01:08Michel Dulsine Pambou elevated to the dignity
00:01:11of Commander of the Order of Congolese Devotion by the
00:01:14Head of State, President Denis Sasou, the
00:01:18President of the Republic, Grand
00:01:21Master of National Orders, His Excellency Denis Sasou
00:01:25Ngucerné normally by decree
00:01:28number 2.
00:01:30promoter of 2026/284
00:01:35(2026/285) of August 14
00:01:38him, has he 2026, the Order of Congolese Merit and the Order of
00:01:41Congolese Devotion to certain personalities
00:01:44and executives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock on
00:01:48the occasion of the festivities marking the 66th
00:01:52anniversary of the independence of the
00:01:55journalism, you have the direction of Republic of Congo. For the purposes of this ceremony, a
00:01:59received funding from sample of... three people will
00:02:01be received with all the dignity required by
00:02:05the prestige of national orders. These
00:02:10ordered, we could say, by the Head of are, in the Order of Congolese Merit, at the rank of
00:02:13Commander, Professor Nobo
00:02:17Paul Valentin. In the Order of Congolese
00:02:20Devotion, at the rank of
00:02:24and housing research at is the Commander, Mr. Pombou Dulsin, at
00:02:27the rank of Officer, Mr.
00:02:32I can take the example of see, I will take the example of the this member of
00:02:57the Ministry of Agriculture and
00:03:00In the name of the President of the Republic, Grand
00:03:06distinction in the name of the Head of preoccupied the Head of Master of National Orders, and by virtue of the powers delegated to us, we
00:03:12make him Commander in the
00:03:18then to make people love the profession of Congolese Order.
00:03:22It is thus that less than a month after the vibrant
00:03:25celebration, the recipient was kind enough to
00:03:28respond to our invitation. to talk about two essential
00:03:32things, namely his career as a
00:03:38the audiovisual director general of journalist working for the national channel for over forty consecutive years and
00:03:41his approval of the decoration of which he is
00:03:45a beneficiary, exactly 40 years that I have been working as
00:03:48a journalist, for it was in
00:03:511986 that I started working in
00:03:54February 1986 and today in
00:03:572026, exactly 40 years. That said, ladies and gentlemen,
00:04:01good evening everyone and welcome to the Esplanade des
00:04:04étoiles.
00:04:09Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, Michel Ducine
00:04:13Pombou worked as a state agent for
00:04:16national television since February
00:04:191986, practically until the day
00:04:22he revealed himself to the public as a lover
00:04:26of rural
00:04:28praised, he had the splendor of reporting, sanctifying
00:04:30activities of the Minister of Agriculture and the... aspiration of agricultural producers for better tomorrows, 40 years
00:04:34of experience, it's a whole story, a whole professional
00:04:38life, of
00:04:40it goes beyond the limits of communication professionals, I mean tell us about your
00:04:43beginnings, so why did
00:04:46you choose journalism, let's go back a long
00:04:49way, things were
00:04:52inspired by destiny, it must be said, because
00:04:55I was still in 5th grade at
00:04:59college. when I had written a show that was broadcast on
00:05:02Radio Congo, which at that time was already called
00:05:06La Braza, hosted by Monique Koami, a famous
00:05:09host who is no longer
00:05:13with us today, she passed away about fifteen
00:05:15years ago, she went to the other side of the world,
00:05:19so I had written to her to tell her that the
00:05:23pleasure I felt in following you and the pleasure you
00:05:26would share with me when you received me as a colleague during one of your
00:05:30shows because I want to become a journalist like you, I love this profession,
00:05:34I adore it and you inspire me, and she
00:05:36carefully kept that letter until I received it at
00:05:40Escala at Braza at Radio Congo. Uh, and she
00:05:43read me the entire letter I had sent, she said that this was
00:05:47destiny that inspired you, so that goes back a long
00:05:51way in the past, I was still in 5th grade when I decided
00:05:54to become a journalist, moreover when I continued my
00:05:58studies, I admitted myself to PC and well, I went
00:06:02to Pointe Noire to Lycée Victor O'Gagneur and I even started in
00:06:05second grade to host shows on Radio Pointe
00:06:09Noire and then after that, well, in...
00:06:12terminal, we were asked to go to the department of communication sciences and
00:06:16techniques, it's like today where there are hundreds and hundreds in
00:06:19first year, in our first year there were 19 of us in first
00:06:23year, 19 students in first year and in 2nd year
00:06:26there were 27 students and in 3rd year there
00:06:30were 33 students, that's what we were, in any case, at
00:06:34the university level, so we took our time to
00:06:37become good, well-trained journalists in the field of general production, given the
00:06:41very small number. that responded
00:06:44uh, really to the ratio, on the way, well
00:06:48uh we obtained a bachelor's degree in
00:06:50journalism and automatically uh we were
00:06:54integrated into the civil service, let's go back a little
00:06:57uh on the academic
00:07:00path, how did the orientation happen so that you found
00:07:04yourself in
00:07:07orientation and scholarships that campaigned among high school
00:07:11students in high schools and raise awareness among students who
00:07:15are candidates for the baccalaureate to tell them, here are the fields that await you at
00:07:18the university depending on whether you are in series A, series D or series C, and we
00:07:22as from series A, well there were girls like the
00:07:26history and geography department, the foreign languages
00:07:30French literature and so on and so forth in this communication technique and I,
00:07:33since my choice was on journalism, I had
00:07:36inevitably chosen
00:07:39to practice as, well, to choose
00:07:42the branch that would lead me to STC and that's what happened,
00:07:46the orientation done, I was sent uh to STC in
00:07:50first year, there you go, it's clear and precise, okay, and
00:07:52so and after that you obtained your bachelor's degree in
00:07:56journalism, yes it was to become
00:07:59level 3 journalists, level 3,
00:08:02yes, and level 3 journalists directly integrated
00:08:06into the civil service, and so here you are
00:08:09landed uh at the national
00:08:13Télé Congo and we were put at the disposal of the press for
00:08:16information and who organized
00:08:20a rotating internship
00:08:23in the different fields, there was
00:08:27the written press and then there was the press and the
00:08:30audiovisual press so we had 1
00:08:34month, one month, one month of internship at the end of which they
00:08:37decided to send us to either the written press or the
00:08:41radio or... to television and it happened that at the end I was put at the
00:08:45disposal of audiovisual and the
00:08:50was Mr. Firmin Ayessa, DG
00:08:54Firmin Ayessa and it was he who took the initiative to
00:08:58assign me, he had pleaded his own cause,
00:09:02he had said, "Moricus, I only
00:09:05dedicate one direction to him, it is to Congolese television because he has an
00:09:09oratorical verb that will serve the public and... that's how I
00:09:13pleasantly found myself in 1986 assigned to Congolese
00:09:16television.
00:09:21what happened in 2008 when
00:09:24Minister Rigobert Mabout, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and
00:09:27Fisheries, he was looking for
00:09:29me to tell me that tomorrow I would be his press attaché, I
00:09:33owe this this entire
00:09:37gratitude to Minister Boundou who had
00:09:39introduced me to the
00:09:43Livestock, okay, and with him you worked
00:09:46for 8 years, for 8 years and from there was born
00:09:50uh the show Étoile des champs, yes, yes Étoile des champs since 2008,
00:09:542008, Étoile des champs was born, today
00:09:572000 uh 26, that makes
00:10:00uh 18 years that the show
00:10:03exists and we broadcast without interruption and the show is well
00:10:06accepted, in 2 years we will celebrate in 2028 the 20th
00:10:10anniversary of the show then. It's
00:10:13Minister Henri Ndombo, yes and well with Minister Henri
00:10:17Ndombo, well we will give an international
00:10:21dimension, of course, to our
00:10:23cooperatives because... I made the request to Minister Jombou
00:10:27to say I would like to go with some representatives of
00:10:30women's cooperatives to Côte d'Ivoire to learn from the experience of Ivorian
00:10:34women because these women produce much more,
00:10:37a great number are very advanced in processing while
00:10:40ours barely manifest production, the next day he calls
00:10:44the Ambassador of Côte d'Ivoire in Brazzaville to tell her
00:10:47her, "Here, you will receive my journalist who arrives with a project" and
00:10:51the process is engaged and we left with a group of...
00:10:55of women representing 12 cooperatives, we went for a
00:10:59good fortnight to Côte d'Ivoire, we went around Côte d'Ivoire, we
00:11:03went, we arrived in Abidjan, the economic
00:11:08next day we went to Musoukro, we went
00:11:11to Yamusoro, we went to several
00:11:14localities and the memories are
00:11:17great.
00:11:39but my greatest memory with those mothers is when they
00:11:43came to spend the night with me,
00:11:46including the Yamoussoukro festival where there were
00:11:49Congolese children who were
00:11:53there, we had organized a competition uh to recruit
00:11:57these young Congolese, we brought them
00:12:00there and the leaders of the Ivorian
00:12:04educational system told their people that you will receive the
00:12:07glued children, they said they are brilliant, but a man at home is a stone,
00:12:11make sure you are the best in the results,
00:12:13okay, okay and they announce
00:12:17the results, first Congolese from Brazzaville, second Congolese from
00:12:20Brazzaville, third Congolese from Brazzaville, fourth, fifth, up to the
00:12:2411th.
00:13:07arrival under the reign of
00:13:10Minister Paulobo, well, he has
00:13:13something to say, every day is a great story with Minister Ngobo, Paul
00:13:17Valentin Ngobo, the professor, let's get to the point then,
00:13:21he is a man who succeeded in...
00:13:25giving body and life to the great idea that
00:13:29State who complains about the small
00:13:33agriculture that is practiced with the small
00:13:36wheel there just for a small area of 400 m2, a plot like
00:13:40that, it's not this agriculture that should feed the Congolese
00:13:43today and Minister Paul Valentin Gobo is
00:13:47the one who understood well, apprehended well
00:13:50the thought of President
00:13:53Denis Sasu Ngesso in favor
00:13:56of large-scale production of food for
00:13:59Congolese to eat well, to nourish themselves well,
00:14:02there you go, and that's what we can say in
00:14:06a word and that's what happens in the zones,
00:14:10there you go, protected school, people must be accustomed to working in vast
00:14:13silos like this where several cooperatives are involved,
00:14:17uh when it's when it's few it's 10,
00:14:21when it's many it's 20, 25 cooperatives and it works well,
00:14:25it works, at least the populations adhere, yes, the populations adhere to
00:14:28the initiative, yes, because the production is there but you can't imagine
00:14:31what it represents today and a village like in the northern
00:14:35part of the country, a village like Oyenze,
00:14:39but it's hundreds of millions that are sleeping there, the populations are distributed at
00:14:43the end of the sale of the harvested corn and well
00:14:47we say you have 105 million but it sleeps there, the village there is the village's
00:14:50money, they have but it's
00:14:53crazy, huh, in the in the pool at Mini
00:14:57there at Luila when they obtained uh
00:15:0018 or 20 million like that, but it's
00:15:05understanding at Mayoumina
00:15:08when Mayoumina is his number 1 there, but you have to live
00:15:11the event to convince yourself, so it's an
00:15:15agricultural revolution, we can say that's the appropriate term, it's the
00:15:19agricultural revolution, that's the battle of President materialized
00:15:22by Paul Valentin Gobo.
00:15:25On this day, the show Étoile des champs
00:15:28is today 18 years
00:15:31old and reigns unchallenged in
00:15:35Télé Congo's program schedule.
00:15:41Ladies and gentlemen, dear agricultural producers, the
00:15:43decoration of Michel Dulcine Pombou, which took
00:15:47place on September 4th last, marks a point
00:15:50of honor in the life of the laureate. Dulcine
00:15:53Pombou decorated on September 4th
00:15:562026 in
00:16:00Livestock, it's more than an honor, it's the
00:16:03recognition of a service rendered
00:16:07honorably to the nation, I am
00:16:10proud and I am happy, fulfilled,
00:16:13uh I wouldn't have more than that to say to
00:16:17express all my great satisfaction, then
00:16:20uh elevated to the title, besides that the
00:16:24Minister uh Ngobo uh no
00:16:27no it's not the same title hm uh he is Commander
00:16:31in the Order of Congolese Merit and I am
00:16:35Commander in the Order of... Congolese
00:16:38Devotion, these are two different things, so let's come to
00:16:41your rank, Commander in
00:16:44the Order of Congolese Devotion, what does that mean? It
00:16:48means that it is facing
00:16:51uh the homeland, yes
00:16:53facing the homeland, what commitment can every citizen
00:16:57make to serve their homeland, with dignity in
00:17:00recognition of the fact that it is the homeland that gave life, it is the homeland that
00:17:04raised him, it is the homeland that formulated him, which... for
00:17:08his education, watched over his health and in return
00:17:12what the homeland expects from
00:17:16honorably received it, has the homeland
00:17:19honorably received him? That is it, it is therefore
00:17:22a dignity towards the
00:17:26homeland, it is to take oneself as
00:17:29an example at the level of the homeland, that is what
00:17:32devotion is, it is to set a good example before
00:17:36the homeland, it is a...
00:17:47State himself, and so you are there decorated by
00:17:51the Chancellor of National Orders, yes, your
00:17:54feelings, but this link
00:18:01the executive itself, you
00:18:05the Federal Republic of Germany.
00:18:09the Republic of Austria, Austria, yes,
00:18:12Austria and or in Germany, the
00:18:16Chancellor is the Prime Minister, he is the head of
00:18:20the government, the Chancellor, and in some
00:18:23Latin American countries, the Chancellor is
00:18:27ipso facto, no, he is directly Minister of
00:18:30Foreign Affairs of his country, yes, so you see
00:18:33that it's not a paltry person who was decorated, it's...
00:18:37him who
00:18:40elevates to honorary
00:18:44State, it's not just anyone, he is the only one and until
00:18:47now he has never been replaced, he is still there, there you go.
00:18:51So it's nobility,
00:18:55noblesse,
00:18:59during the ceremony during the speeches,
00:19:03we clearly saw Minister Ngobo, as far as you
00:19:07are concerned, emphasize your values for years
00:19:10through the emblematic show Étoile des
00:19:13champs, to explore our tracks, cross the mud pits and
00:19:17face the isolation of villages to give a voice
00:19:19to those whom the capital did not see. He
00:19:23looked at the Congolese peasant with respect,
00:19:27rigor and admiration. Today, while illness is sapping his physical
00:19:31strength, we solemnly tell him,
00:19:34"No, Dulcine, you are not alone
00:19:37in this fight, the entire agricultural family stands by your
00:19:41side, your voice, your highly expressive
00:19:43gestures, and this unique way of transmitting your
00:19:47passion that viewers admire year
00:19:50after year remain engraved in our memories, he highlighted
00:19:54your values of citizenship, I mean, so what inspired
00:19:58him according to you, in a celebration to
00:20:01give it splendor and he also
00:20:05the event and the...
00:20:08the joy of the laureate, he praised and it was the minister who praised
00:20:12the laureate that I am, even though he himself is also a laureate, yes, but he
00:20:16doesn't appreciate it, he plays his role as Minister of Agriculture
00:20:19to appreciate it because he worked with him for 6 consecutive
00:20:23years, yes, that's it, he worked with the laureate and so he
00:20:26appreciates me rightly so, okay,
00:20:30he did well, he found the right striking words, very
00:20:33powerful, in fact, even going so far as to your
00:20:36recognition. that uh Mr. Ducine, bravo, your dream is
00:20:40ensured by Miss Victoire
00:20:44Pombou and there you go, your work continues,
00:20:47seeing your daughter Dulcine Victoire Pambou,
00:20:51take up the torch with determination, shows that the
00:20:54seeds you have sown have given rise to a strong and
00:20:58proud succession, that's good, and it means that today,
00:21:01yes, it means that today you are here being interviewed
00:21:05by your offspring, very good, dear colleague, and yes, dear
00:21:09colleague, the value awaits for the number of years, huh,
00:21:12okay, there you go, thank you very much, what is the moment
00:21:16that moved you that day? No, it's
00:21:20responsibility, that is to say it's it's an
00:21:24elevation to the dignity of
00:21:26commander, that's what is very striking and
00:21:30I don't believe that the Congolese have fully understood
00:21:34this role, now young
00:21:37journalists can allow themselves to say, "Well, I want to create a
00:21:41show in such a field, a bit the commander's point of view,
00:21:44what does he think of what I'm going to
00:21:47do, what can he
00:21:51advise me? What can be his contribution? What is his
00:21:54reflection on my concern?" But
00:21:57yes, so you become a reference, a reference,
00:22:01solicited, so a consultant,
00:22:04perhaps not a consultant, but we are solicited, we are
00:22:08it's that he has in society what are called
00:22:11safeguards that prevent you from going astray
00:22:14on the path to
00:22:17advance in an un reassuring way.
00:22:29to avoid extravagance, to avoid
00:22:32extrapolation, to avoid uh laziness
00:22:35and lethargy, observe the
00:22:39dynamism required, there you go, in daily
00:22:42action, ah that's good, yes, okay, it's a noble
00:22:45role, noble, it's nobility, okay,
00:22:48and after this... ceremony there, the participants paid
00:22:52tribute to you and there
00:22:55were some members of your families, some
00:22:59collaborators in the service and so there were
00:23:02many of them, yeah, and starting with the
00:23:05first speaker, I am Ltima, director of the national
00:23:09center for agricultural extension
00:23:14Cevar, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, a big thank you to the colleagues who have
00:23:17been decorated and... to
00:23:20our doyen who uh uh has
00:23:23been deservedly decorated, it must be said, due
00:23:27to the fact that he has been a major actor in
00:23:31agricultural extension, so he has made known
00:23:33the agricultural profession to those
00:23:36who still ignored this profession, so he has given
00:23:39a value, a certain nobility to
00:23:43this profession, he is a young executive of
00:23:47Livestock, he is brilliant, he is very enthusiastic. and breathtaking
00:23:50too, huh, uh it's not a way for me to return the favor
00:23:54but because he was able to speak truly and justly
00:23:57about the fight I led to make known the profession of
00:24:02agriculture to those who had no idea and
00:24:08agriculture to those but these are young people who are
00:24:11in the cities who must return to the land,
00:24:15go back to the countryside like this young lady from
00:24:19Motamba. uh who says that she came back, she was in the city
00:24:22there, but as soon as they heard that there are trees that are
00:24:26launched, they came back to cultivate the land, Mrs. Buanga Chanka
00:24:30uh I was born in 2006, Bungi,
00:24:33uh I grew up here but I went to Pointe
00:24:37Noire, I spent 29 years in the city, our group is called
00:24:40Bungi Développement, so I am with my brothers and
00:24:43sisters, there are 15 of us, but most
00:24:47of the people in the group come back from the city,
00:24:50so we were in Pointe Noire precisely, we worked
00:24:54there, but since the agricultural zone came, we are really proud to
00:24:58come back home to the village to come back because it's an opportunity for us, President
00:25:01Denisso, thank you for sending
00:25:05us the minister who comes to open up work for us,
00:25:08we work with feeling, it's really something we
00:25:11love because when the president said "return to the land", we didn't
00:25:15understand but now we understand that to succeed, to work well,
00:25:18you have to work with the land.
00:25:44but you have to give them the desire to settle there and work, they must now know
00:25:47that it's not in air-conditioned offices
00:25:50they should work, it's
00:25:53not uh, but it's the body exposed to the
00:25:57sun, to the heat, to ant bites, to
00:26:00insect bites of all kinds, huh, and... sometimes dusty hands, but these are
00:26:04working conditions, but that by doing that they must
00:26:08regain the honorability
00:26:11of serving their neighbors because they must produce the food that others must
00:26:15eat to nourish themselves, and it is in that they are like true heroes of
00:26:18the sacred work of the earth, okay, and Étoile de champ
00:26:22becomes a cry even to the tutelage it's their slot
00:26:25dedicated to talking about showing the
00:26:29joys and sorrows of agricultural
00:26:32producers on the ground, showing their performance and
00:26:36their failures in the field of production, we hide nothing,
00:26:39we act in transparency. Justin
00:26:42Pombou, who is
00:26:45the show, has always been a
00:26:48reference for us, it's a show that we
00:26:51follow every, every
00:26:54week we are hooked to our TV
00:26:57screen to watch this show, we
00:27:01feel honored because Mr.
00:27:05Duzi Pombou had many missions that he organized on our site
00:27:08and he promoted our site, in
00:27:12addition to that he gave us one of his
00:27:15sons who is our general secretary and who animates
00:27:18well, so today we are celebrating, we are
00:27:21celebrating, we are very happy this
00:27:24gentleman whom we call Mr. Tiendo
00:27:27Emmanuel is the younger brother of Mr.
00:27:30Elota who is the
00:27:33the NGO Eden, yes, uh,
00:27:36commitment for sustainable
00:27:39development, sustainable development and environment,
00:27:43that's right, which is operational in Makabandilou where he has his headquarters and where he
00:27:47practices agriculture, 10 hectares
00:27:50of dedicated land, which is bad,
00:27:53by the way I pay him a deserved tribute because uh in
00:27:57December of last year 2025, they
00:28:01the French embassy to the tune of 25 million to train
00:28:05young Congolese people, about a hundred men and women in production
00:28:08techniques uh of
00:28:12organic fruits and vegetables so ecological,
00:28:15that's, that's, that's, that's magnificent, that's it, so I
00:28:18encourage them for that yes
00:28:22and he knows how to say that in return and...