saundra busieka obote: big brother africa.... the chase for the money

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Big Brother Africa in a nut shell!!!

let the chase continue!!

It’s entertaining, thrilling, captivating, scandalous and absolutely full of drama. Over the past few years big brother Africa a 24 hour reality show that runs for 91 days (14 week) has kept the African continent on its toes and raised a lot of eyebrows in the years in been on air.

This season of the show is no different and with just 2 weeks left before the finale things are definitely heating up, at this point the viewers already know 4 of the contestants who will be in the finale (Elikem-Ghana, Cleo-Zambia, Beverly and Melvin-Nigeria). Interestingly Nigeria’s female representative Beverly Osu, made history on Monday night by being the only contestant never to have been nominated for eviction since the reality series started in 2003. With just one spot left the battle lines have been drawn for the 3 other contestants (Angelo-South Africa, Bimp-Ethiopia, Dillish-Namibia) whose heads have been up on the chopping board, and are helplessly at the mercy of Africa and the viewers, if they hope to remain in the house till the last day.

Unlike other reality shows, the concept of the big brother shows all over the world - (yes just like idols and survivor, big brother is a brand ,and big brother Africa is the African edition of the hit international show) - is for a group of contestants to live together in one house or two separate houses , perform different tasks given to them by anonymous big brother , with the aim of entertaining, educating ,and informing the viewers of various aspects of life

Here in Africa the show is produced by Dstv and the Africa magic entertainment channels and 28 contestants , 2 from various African countries ,from East, West and Southern Africa are brought together to compete for a whopping $3000,000 American dollars , now loosely changed in to Rands that would be approximately ( +_)R 3,000,000. Every week the contestants nominate each other for possible eviction and the contestants with the most nominations are put up for evictions and it’s up to the viewers and Africa as a whole to save their favourite contestants.

Yes, to stand a chance at winning the 3 million Rands all that is needed from the contestant is for them to be entertaining, someone whose name is always at the tip of peoples tongues in a good ways, stand out from the rest, someone with the x factor that makes Africa fall in love with them. For 91 days this contestants do not have any sort of communication with the outside world at all, basically they are stuck with each other and one can only imagine what this sort of atmosphere can do to an individual’s mind as the days go by.

Now this may sound easy but Africa is made of 54 countries, and has millions of people, who are quite hard to please at times, people with different social upbringing, different cultural and religious believes, and as a whole Africans tend to be much conserved people and certain behaviours can raise a lot of questions.

Earlier on I mentioned that the show is entertaining, thrilling, captivating, scandalous and absolutely full of drama and this are the reason millions of Africans glued to their TV sets watching other people live their lives. To someone who has never watched the show or rather is not a fan of the show the idea of sitting and watching other go about their lives sounds ridiculous, but the big brother house is no ordinary house, not even the best script writers can pen down the events that take place in this house.

To those who have never watched the show it’s okay , perhaps you should give it a try and to those like me love the show keep calm , keep watching and keep voting for your favourite contestants.