Uganda came out of the Sunday eviction show of Big Brother Hotshots smiling and bruised in equal measure. Bebe Cool had given a totally unique opening of the show with his
seemingly popular hit all over Africa, Love You Everyday. This was a
performance better than most that have graced the Big Brother Africa
stage this season; he had the crowd bumping and singing along to those
crispy lines of "hey hey hey... I will love you everyday".
Maybe it helped that the entire chart-topper is done in English, so
everyone could relate to the lyrics and sing along. After that
performance, Nigerians, Ghanaians and South Africans among others were
all praising Bebe on social media, with one noting: "Nigeria has
artistes, but this Ugandan is awesome."
It was on that high that presenter IK took viewers into the house to
evict Mozambique's Trezagah and Botswana's beauty queen, Sheila, making
Ugandans feel safe. But then IK returned a second time and ironically
evicted both Idris' (Tanzania) love interests, Ugandan Ellah and Tswana
Goitse.
This came as a bombshell for Ugandans who had predicted we were safe;
all one needed were two country votes to stay. In our view, Rwanda was
already in the bag; how wrong we were!
After saving Ellah for more than five times, the Rwandans chose to go
far west and save Nigeria's Tayo over their neighbour, leaving the
Ugandan beauty queen with just Uganda's vote, seeing as Kenya had opted
to save Idris. This was the most shocking revelation of the night;
Ugandans really needed the Rwandan vote last week, but Ellah had not
helped matters by lately preferring to spend all her time in bed playing
tonsil hockey with 21-year-old Idris (among others) much to Africa's
chagrin.
Now Africa has eight finalists in JJ and Butterphly (Zimbabwe), Sipe
(Malawi), Idris, Tayo, Ghana's M'am Bea, South African Nhlanhla and
Zambia's Macky2. This leaves Uganda, Rwanda and Botswana as possible
kingmakers, considering the fact that Idris calculatingly messed up both
Ellah and Goitse's games by playing them against each other in a love
triangle. Speaking to The Observer by phone from South Africa yesterday,
however, both women concurred, if Idris thought his strategy was to play
them, he only ended up playing himself. Ellah also said she had no
regrets with how her game played out. We reserve the right of messing up
his chances by voting for Ellah's bestie, the soft-spoken Butterphly.
Rwanda has already demonstrated that they don't care what happens
next season, by departing from regional politics and voting with the
western bloc. And now that all Botswana's hopes burnt out in one
weekend, they could become as lethal as a wounded lion by voting with
their SADC friends instead of for Idris, seeing as South Africa was the
only vote Sheila received last week. JJ has made history as the only housemate to stay in the house to the
final week even when he always gets one country vote; that should teach
Ugandans a lesson to vote in bigger numbers. The Zimbabwean survived
every tiebreaker on mere percentages, meaning he had more individual
votes than the likes of Ellah.
Sipe, M'am Bea and Butterphly have been the least nominated
housemates; it is surprising how this female trio made it to the finals.
This week Africa votes for a winner, so vote wisely. The Nigerians have taken the top prize a record three times out of
nine seasons. Zambia was the inaugural winner, while Tanzania, South
Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia have also won a season each. Six of the
finalists this season come from those countries again. But do the other
two have what it takes to switch the tide? Africa decides.
To vote for your favourite housemate to win the $ 300,000 (about Shs
780m), type 'vote' followed by the name of the housemate and SMS to 8884
on all the major mobile phone networks, or vote via the show's website
www.bigbrotherafrica.com.
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