Ghana treated unfairly in Big Brother Africa Revolution
By The Jaded Renegade | Mon, 14 Sep 2009
I was starting to enjoy the exciting twists in the Big Brother Africa Revolution but after seeing the elimination of Ras Wayo and no introduction of a Ghanaian female housemate, I think the concept of the revolution was not fully thought through and rather unfortunate.
Some of the twists are pointless to the core: why are there more housemates from certain countries than others when in fact the idea of having a continental show was to bring the various countries together. With the introduction of 12 female housemates into the house on Sunday, there are now 4 Nigerians, 2 Kenyans and other multiple entries for some other countries while Ghana has no rep at the moment. Is this all in the interest of exciting viewership? Or are some countries better represented in the house because M-net/DStv stands to gain more from those countries?
One funny thing is that Big Brother has allowed 'voting conspiracy' this season and most likely alliances are going to be formed along nationalities. This would most likely create a lot of antagonism among housemates and yet M-net came out boldly to say that they changed the voting rules this year so people would vote to save their favourite instead of voting out their least favourite to promote 'positivity' instead of negativity.
In a surprise announcement, Ghana's representative, Ras Wayo became the second Housemate to leave the BBA House during the show's first Eviction Show. Wayoe entered the stage to a crowd chanting his name to a Reggae tune. He told IK, the host, that he was not surprised to have left the House and does not think his Rastafarian way of life played a part in viewers not voting for him.
Well Ghanaians aren't surprised either because his Jamaican patois became an issue immediately when he was introduced into the house. So why was Ras Wayo chosen to represent Ghana in the first place? M-net and the producers of the show chose someone whom in their view would over the best entertainment value for viewers from all participating countries. What made Wayoe the best candidate for Ghana when the whole of Africa thought otherwise only in the first week of the show? Could individual countries choose their own reps instead of having the producers force representatives on them?
M-net must understand that even though the Big Brother Africa concept is hugely to provide entertainment for Africa, for some of us, it is an issue of national pride and as I Ghanaian I am disappointed at the so-called revolution!
Some of the twists are pointless to the core: why are there more housemates from certain countries than others when in fact the idea of having a continental show was to bring the various countries together. With the introduction of 12 female housemates into the house on Sunday, there are now 4 Nigerians, 2 Kenyans and other multiple entries for some other countries while Ghana has no rep at the moment. Is this all in the interest of exciting viewership? Or are some countries better represented in the house because M-net/DStv stands to gain more from those countries?
One funny thing is that Big Brother has allowed 'voting conspiracy' this season and most likely alliances are going to be formed along nationalities. This would most likely create a lot of antagonism among housemates and yet M-net came out boldly to say that they changed the voting rules this year so people would vote to save their favourite instead of voting out their least favourite to promote 'positivity' instead of negativity.
In a surprise announcement, Ghana's representative, Ras Wayo became the second Housemate to leave the BBA House during the show's first Eviction Show. Wayoe entered the stage to a crowd chanting his name to a Reggae tune. He told IK, the host, that he was not surprised to have left the House and does not think his Rastafarian way of life played a part in viewers not voting for him.
Well Ghanaians aren't surprised either because his Jamaican patois became an issue immediately when he was introduced into the house. So why was Ras Wayo chosen to represent Ghana in the first place? M-net and the producers of the show chose someone whom in their view would over the best entertainment value for viewers from all participating countries. What made Wayoe the best candidate for Ghana when the whole of Africa thought otherwise only in the first week of the show? Could individual countries choose their own reps instead of having the producers force representatives on them?
M-net must understand that even though the Big Brother Africa concept is hugely to provide entertainment for Africa, for some of us, it is an issue of national pride and as I Ghanaian I am disappointed at the so-called revolution!
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KB | Abuja-Nigeria (Location: United Kingdom) | 9/14/2009 2:47:00 PM
Yes, there is a lot of crap with these so-called African competitions. There is a lot of petty jealousy with some of these 'Africans' as far as Ghana is concerned. I'm actually glad the Ghanaian housemate is out. You know why? Now all those st***d Africans will leave Ghana alone! I also agree absolutely that the selection of Ghana's representative to Big Brother should be looked into. I'd been absolutely pissed with virtually all our reps in Big Brother shows so far. You and I know there are millions of young Ghanaians folks who could do a lot better. So are they not being selected? Your guess is as good as mine. Select the worst type to ridicule Ghana of course. I live in Nigeria and I am supposed to inform DSTV that I'd like to watch the show because the Big Brother channel is blocked in Nigeria and subscribers are only allowed to watch when they request to do so. I had sent a text message before the show started but DSTV would still not allow me watch it, expect the highlights we see on AfricaMagic. Now that the Ghanaian rep is out, I'm not even bothering to get DSTV to unblock the BB channel. Ghanaians, we are a great people. Forget about BB! It is not worth anybody's time! Eviciton of the two housemates
Lucia | Nairobi-Kenya (Location: Kenya) | 9/14/2009 3:15:00 PM
I was also shocked to see Teddy to be the first housemate to leave the big brother house yesterday. We keep watching the show because of entertainment and if the interesting people are being evicted then there is no point of watching the show. It was also so sad to see the Ghanaian being evicted and yet no other person from Ghana entered the House, This is so unfair!!!!!!
confusing big brother/sister
Dougie | south africa(za)-pretoria (Location: South Africa) | 9/14/2009 4:12:00 PM
i was so dissapointed with de way big brother(sister) was organised this year. can't each country select their own represantatives than de way is done now...i hope it will improve next year...
