With the logo/trademark of an eye of an unseen
yet always heard ‘landlord’ with the power so to evict whoever he wills at
whatever time; the 24 hour ‘reality’ TV concept of ‘Big Brother Africa: BBA’
has gained grounds since the maiden edition.
In Ghana, whilst people who are subscribers of
satellite channel DSTV, have extended access to the show, those with
terrestrial access are not left out with serialized editions of the show.
It started with Metro TV in the very first
edition of the show which had Ghana represented by Sammy Bampoe and won
eventually by a certain Cherise Makubale bagging the $ 100,000 prize.
TV3 has also done their bit of serializing the
show (but I am handicapped as to which edition), the station currently helping
DSTV with screening of the Stargame edition of Big Brother Africa is
Charterhouse’s GH One network.
The mere fact that a person or group of people
have cameras fixed on them 24hours and 7 days for as long as they are in the
competition would ordinarily pass as being part of the fun, but it turns out
not to be so.
The Big Brother thing is passing off rather as a
place where formerly individual adults meet and are supposed to live and
tolerate one another whiles being ‘natural’ as possible.
People have met total strangers at least as we
are made to believe and have glaringly without any basis whatsoever started
indulging in amorous relationships with them, kissing, fondling, smooching and
having sex with cameras on them.
In my opinion, a public display of obscenity,
wanton disregard for morality and brazen slap in the face of any modesty and
accepted social conduct. Where did we go wrong as a people?
My views are clear on the way and manner in which
people (full adult men and women) engage in live sex whiles every million other
people are believed to be watching on their TV sets.
Thereafter, these corruption laden and moral
derailing video are circulated faster than bush fires in the dry season, thanks
to social media and internet websites as ‘youtube’ etc.
In an era where the media has become a necessary
evil that a person can barely escape from in 24hours, can we still say that it
is informing, educating and entertaining audiences?
I think the answer; in the light of such morally
aberrant content as the ‘Big Brother’ and its ilk, is an emphatic NO! If for
some other genuine reason(s) people think it is; then let’s pause and ask the
kind of education and entertainment we are being served.
In the name of entertainment, we are served a
screen dish of backstabbing and vulgar vocabulary, garnished with pornographic
scenes and morally debauched tasks at times.
And what is it with
the two representatives of Ghana in this edition; that one slept on the other
under sheets and the other describes it as making-out rather than making love.
Undoubtedly their
kissing and smooching session could not graduate into what she now denies; that
they had open sex in the FULL glare of cameras. Then the fact that Reggie
Rockstone sees nothing wrong (the least said about it the better)
Why? Simple! He’s
known as nothing more than the ‘grandpapa’ of hiplife music. We don’t know him
ever to have preached anything as morality, so we need not waste time on what
clearly is a grossly misplaced effusion of a warped mind.
So it started with allowing alcoholic drinks,
open intimacy, condoms I know are allowed in and ladies wear apparels that have
nothing to do with moral uprightness. In the not too distant future we might as
well expect gays and lesbians walking into the house to ‘express’ themselves.
Now it is nothing but a ‘brothel’ as per what
currently pertains at least on a yearly basis. Detestable, ignoble, abhorrent
and ‘unafrican’ (if there’s anything like that).
May Allah be our aid, guide and protector.
Written 21 July, 2012 :::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 Sha'baan, 1433H
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