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Therese Bella Mbida, Cameroon's first woman journalist as well as a filmmaker and pilot, has died in a Yaounde hospital at the age of 73, her family said Thursday.
Mbida, better known as Sita Bella, "died on Monday in the greatest destitution, abandoned and alone, after being thrown out of the flat she lived in in the Messa district," one of her nephews told AFP.
After being taken to an old people's home, Sita Bella was admitted to hospital with cancer of the colon.
One of her best known works was a short documentary made in 1963, "Tam Tam in Pari", about Cameroon's traditional dancers.
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AFP 021249 GMT 03 06
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