The Greatest Show of Shame Called Big Brother Africa

By

Adeniyi Jaiyesimi

adeniyijay@yahoo.com


Ordinarily I wouldn't have bothered but I guess it has become increasingly embarrassing to pretend that it really doesn't matter and that could be misconstrued as being in support. What am I talking about you may ask? Well before I answer, I want to tell you an incident I witnessed at a wedding reception in Lagos.


The chairman of the reception in his speech attempted to counsel the newly weds especially the groom. He informed them that in his thirty years of marriage, he had never had any cause to be unfaithful to his wife. What happened next is something that has baffled me and will continue to for a long time because the chairman had not finished this sentence before cat calls and shouts of unbelief started pouring out from the guests especially the men. Now whether the man was telling the truth or not is not the issue here but the fact that people have become so depraved in their thinking and lifestyle that they would rather react with unbelief and cat calls to an admonition for faithfulness by partners in an institution as sacred as marriage. Well, that is the bane of the world today and quite unfortunate. Many would want to think that there are no more people who still uphold the stand for fidelity in their marriages.

Today's society has become obsessed with anything and everything fleshy. The word 'fleshy' meaning anything that involves the display, attract, expose, stimulate or indulge in, whether covertly or overtly of carnal desires. We have become slaves to passion and its allurements and would do anything to satisfy our appetites for them. Many would steal, lie, fight, cheat, deceive to receive, malign, slander and commit the worst crimes like rape and kidnapping just to satisfy this cravings.
 
What is it about humans that we are so easily captivated by the lure of the flesh? I guess the answer lies in the fact that we have thrown overboard all values and sense of morality that has guided the people of the Africa continent and substituted it with everything foreign. In attempting to be western in our lifestyle, we act more western than the west. We pretend as if we do not see the repercussion or consequences of this type of behavior in the western society (break down of traditional family values) and yet we copy! copy!! copy!!! even to our ruin and eventual downfall as a nation and as a people.

The so called entertainment TV Programme, Big brother Africa is a glaring example of the extent of our depravity. I do not see anything different between what happens in this show of shame and what prostitutes and harlots and their pimps do for a living. Slaves to money. When two or more people who have never known each other except for the fact there have been placed in the same house to live-in would indulge in such show of unbridled carnal appetites all in the name of entertainment is a clear indication that people have indeed gone bonkers, and all sense of value and discretion have disappeared from the African society. The producers, sponsors, presenters, actors and indeed the VIEWERS of such Programme are all liable for destroying the fabric upon which genuine society (Decency and upholding of traditional family values) is built.

I am writing this piece and thus raising alarm, peradventure something can be done to salvage the situation before it gets out of hand. I am glad that the House of Representatives has taken a major step in curtailing the total destruction of the Nigerian society. The world has become a global village, Agreed! But that does not mean we have lost our sovereignty as a Nation. We can analyze and determine what type of information should flow to our people. Any information that attacks and destroys the upholding of traditional family values should be prevented from getting into the country.

Allow me give a bad example, the government of the peoples republic of China in its effort to resist vulgarity and indecency in the country recently banned all reality TV shows from showing during prime time. 
I want to use this opportunity to caution our own ofunekka who featured in the recently concluded edition of the BBA reality TV Programme that she shouldn't be deceived into thinking that all is well or she has done anybody proud because she hasn't!! Infact her actions at the end of the show only confirmed what I had always suspected; that she was a pretender and with time and a little pressure she would display her true colors. I'm sure if the show had run for another week, we would have seen her in much worse behavior. SHAME ON YOU!


You say your parents are proud of you? What manner of parent would be proud of a daughter that goes on to bath nude for millions of eyes to behold? Your guess is as good as mine. What type of daughter would get drunk in the first instance and thereafter pretend not to be aware when she is sexually assaulted? I'm sure even a prostitute would put up a better performance! You have brought ridicule to our Country and our people and ought to bury your face in shame. 

 Adeniyi Jaiyesimi, lives in Abuja.