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As part of our week of programmes exploring television around the world,

I'm bringing you the story of one of Nigeria's biggest TV shows.

We're going back to when Paparajasco first hit the screens back in the 1990s.

Paparajasco is a comedy full of colourful characters.

It quickly became a missable TV for Nigerian families.

When it started, Wallya Danouga and his family squeezed onto a sofa

to watch the first episode, just like many families across the country.

When it was announced that it would be coming out on TV on Friday, 7 o'clock,

I was in the city room with my wife and children about two or three of them dead.

And there's some neighbours, you know, they joined us to watch it on television.

We saw it for the first time, everybody was dumping for joy.

You know, in this sense of accomplishment, you feel like if I achieved something.

And boy did he achieve something with the show becoming essential viewing across Africa.

But how did it get there?

When Wallya was young, he loved to sketch and he couldn't resist telling jokes.

In lectures at the University of Lagos, he would often be distracted by drawing his professors,

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