adminRight up to the moment that host IK announced that the Ugandan was evicted from the show, this guy kept the count, and said “good riddance” when the verdict was announced. When asked why he was so against the Ugandans in the house, he said they were embarrassing, and they should leave and spare us.
Another one, a bar owner, accused the housemates of having “fake accents’” and claimed it is the reason they were evicted. Now I do not know about the “embarrassed count down guy”, for he is always beefing about something or another. And he is not alone; it seems a lot of people across East Africa have beef with almost anything and everything they see.
If I was a psychologist, I would probably say that Big Brother Africa is just a very convenient outlet of a lot of frustration people have in their lives. They all cannot wait till May comes around, a new season of BBA is launched, so that they can let all their nastiness come out.
Now we all know that reality shows are just shows to entertain folks watching TV, and the people in them are acting for all they are worth. It is not a court of law where you swear to tell the truth, so it did not bother me when, on the first day in the house, the Ugandan housemate known as LK4 told a fellow housemate that he was known all across East Africa.
I had no problem with it, and if it helped him score some points with the housemates, well and good; we actually laughed about it in office.
But one lady on Facebook was really ticked off. She wrote how she does not watch Big Brother, but just happened to be passing by a TV set and heard LK4 say that “known” thing.
She assured all and sundry that she knew him personally, that he was not known at all in East Africa (wonder how she knew that?), and only people who read Bukedde and watched Agataliko Nfufu knew him. A friend of hers posted that his East Africa was probably just Uganda and they had a good laugh at that.
She is a friend of mine and I know she has spent most of her life in Kampala, although she was coming off a stint of a few months in Nairobi. Where did the beef come from? And if she does not watch Big Brother but was just “passing by”, why didn’t she just let it go? Why the vitriol? I also do not understand what about LK4 she did not like, the girls in the house, all sexy and pretty too, just loved him.
That thing of the avatar, where three of the hottest girls in the house chose him to be the receiver of their avatars – it has never happened before in Big Brother history. Chics from other African countries are digging on a Ugandan brother and you hate him for that? And did she notice that when he was evicted even the guys cried?
Which brings me to that “embarrassed count- down” fellow; balding, overweight, with not a very exciting life, maybe that is why he watches a lot of TV. I know he does because he was the one updating us via WhatsApp on everything that was going on in the house, even though he was claiming that he did not like it.
He informed us, who was nominated, who was saved and swapped; he told us how Denzel was thrown out of the diary Room for being “naked”, and how he gave Kenyan housemate Huddah a back rub. He told us which of the chics were hot, and which one looked like a sangoma.
As for “bar-owner”, he used to work for a “media” house that is usually used as a wipe-off in washrooms, so he has beef of his own. As for his “fake accent” bit, you should hear him speak, you need a translator just to realise he is speaking English. God forbid he wants somebody that speaks like him to go into the house, and say he is there on behalf of all Ugandans.
At the end of the day, it is really about being Ugandan, and maybe Kenyan too. Those folks who castigate BBA the loudest, are the ones that watch it religiously, and cannot wait for it to come round so they can be their nasty selves.
We will let folks get their rocks off, it is all about being Ugandan, like those very loud guys who demonstrate every Monday against corruption, and then turn around and ask you for “enjawulo” (kickback). — New Vision.
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