You See! Unless We Change The Following, Kenya Has No Chance in Big Brother Africa #BBAHotshots

Others have labelled the Kenyan representatives all sorts of funny names. The most recent being controversial blogger Robert Alai’s jibe on the latest evictee, Melvin Alusa, where he labelled him not only boring but also shallow and idiotic.

That is hard to take for Alusa but the water has already spilled. So there is no need of throwing tantrums at the representatives.

Sabina was accused of abandoning her six-months old child for the Big Brother Africa show. To others, that is uncalled for while to the rest of the fans, there is no worry over the same.

All said and done, one thing remains for sure: Kenya had no chance in the Big Brother Africa reality show.

Last week I did an article on the possibilities of Alusa being dumped out of the continent’s biggest reality show to date. Some will label me the proverbial prophet of doom. Infact, others have already called me names.

Melvin Alusa

But facts remain facts no matter how hard one tries to change them. Truth was and is, Kenya was not ready for competition. Kenya is not ready for the show and not any time soon are we going to be bracing ourselves to win this coveted award.

Sabina Stadler was the first Kenyan representative to been show the door; heels in, stomach out, eyes out, off to Kenya. That is the bitter reality that hit the former Q TV news anchor.

Sabina Stadler

She was on Larry Madowo’s The Trend on NTV last Friday and even though she looked so composed, Sabina knew down her heart that she had failed and fallen with a thud in BBA.

She wished her fellow Kenyan in the show, Alusa, all the best, oblivious of the fact that Alusa’s time to leave was around the corner. He effectively got rejected and subsequently ejected from the house. He was simply not the hotshot to carry the day.

That said and done, Kenya was not going to go far in Big Brother Africa. Theories have been coined behind this among them being that the representatives were not the hotshots that they were supposed to be. That Alusa and Sabina are parents. That Alusa and Sabina were not just bring but shallow and idiotic. And that, interestingly, Sabina had an accent.

All these and many more can, to some extent, explain why the two Kenyans badly lost in the show, effectively setting the record as the first representatives from the same country to be kicked out of the competition. Kenya set history, subsequently.

But there is a fact that we must know. Voting in BBA is tricky. Votes from 40 million Kenyans are counted as a single vote. So are those from 30 million Ugandans, 40 million Tanzanians and 90 million Nigerians.

In simpler terms, a country’s votes are counted as a single vote. Alusa and Sabina’s evictions simply imply that Kenya is not popular among other African nations. For a contestant to avoid eviction, he/she must get votes from other countries.

Surprisingly, only Kenya voted for Alusa and that is why his one vote sent him packing. This clearly indicates that nations like Namibia and Nigeria are popular than Kenya. And this means that something big must be done amongst us, to sell ourselves to the African continent on the celebrity front.

We may be comforted by the fact that Tanzania also lost one of its representatives but remember we are not competing with Tanzania. We are independent and need to remain that way.

It is also a challenge to the selectors of the representatives. Pick what is marketable. I don’t mean Sabina and Alusa were not marketable but you see what happened. We need proper representation in next year’s edition.

Otherwise Kenya has a long way before it makes a major impact and draw a major surprise in the continent’s biggest reality show, The Big Brother Africa.