IT never rains but pours for Zimbabwe’s representative in Big Brother, JJ who, every week, is finding himself on the chopping board.
Despite being described by presenter IK as a great man, JJ has been up for eviction from the first week.
Failure to obtain more votes in the talent show saw him being among the 25 housemates who were up for eviction in the first week of Big Brother.
Together with other 22 housemates, JJ survived eviction, but his joy was short lived as the second week opened with him being among the nominated housemates.
Last week, the Zimbabwean survived eviction courtesy of the five country votes he obtained from Southern Africa.
JJ managed to scoop the votes from Southern African countries since there were only two representatives up for eviction from the region.
This week it will be tough for JJ who is on the nomination list with strong contestants from Southern Africa such as Ausa (Kenya), Marky 2 (Zambia), Permithias (Namibia) and Laveda (Tanzania).
His nine lives might have run out considering the number of players from the region nominated.
Of the two Zimbabwean housemates in the house, JJ has proved to be a strong contender while Butterphly continues to be on the quiet side.
Though JJ has been nominated by fellow housemates for being the ‘Mr Know-it-all’ in the house, he has proved to be among the most intelligent housemate.
His relationship with fellow countrywoman Butterphly started on a low but has improved to a brother and sister kind of relationship.
Meanwhile, popular twerking housemates Lilian (Nigeria) and Esther (Uganda) were both evicted from Big Brother house after failing to garner even a single country vote.
Both Lilian and Esther became popular in the house with their ‘exotic dancing’ that viewers obviously found in bad taste.
From the first day in the house, Lilian and Esther could not spend a day without twerking and swearing.
Twerking is a dance in which an individual usually a female dances to music in sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance.
The duo also confessed that they were under stress due to being sexually inactive describing themselves as ‘sex hungry’.
To display their ‘hunger’, both engaged in pole dancing while Esther was semi-naked.
Africa, it seems, was offended which resulted in the booting out of the duo.
Without doubt viewers expect participants to represent their countries in good light.
While, globalisation has become the buzzword, Africans definitely still want to see their values and culture respected.
“I did not like that ‘striper’ Lilian at all, she was annoying, only thinking of twerking as if it was going to make her win,” said Sibonile Mpofu on Big Brother Africa page.
The dismissal of both Lilian and Esther is not only about how Africa voted but a protest by Africans against wayward behaviour aped from the West but does not represent the African continent and its values.