GraphicsPlus: President Barack Obama recently decried the “change in culture” that has altered what he called the view of the American Dream. He took a swipe at Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for being the poster boy and girl respectively of this damaging culture.

He could as well have been speaking for Nigerians, nay Africans. The African society is increasingly under assault as we make advances in modernity. This is fueled by the increasingly corrupt pop culture which is heavily influenced by the mass media. The pervasiveness of these collection of ideas can be seen all around as it permeates the everyday lives of the society. It has brought with it a certain superficiality, consumerism and sensationalism.

This can be seen in that decadent show that seems to have captured the imagination of not just the young but also the elderly. The exhibition of licentiousness going on in that house of shame called Big Brother Africa is more than a source of concern, it is the repudiation of morality and sanity in the name of modernity and it is being thumbed in our noses by Multichoice; an agency of western imperialism.

Reality television shows present unscripted situations, peopled by unprofessional actors, depending on the genre. But what does the Big brother genre of reality television want to impart to Africans?

The answer is perversion. The show has unleashed perversion at a level that will be very difficult to erase. It is damaging the scant morality we still subscribe to in a terribly debased world.

Big Brother was popularized by George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. But this is not the Big Brother he was talking about when he wrote that book. The term “Big Brother” was the lexicon for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.

Im calling BS on this. Barack Obama whom you quote is president of an 11 trillion dollar economy, an economy built on the free enterprise system--which has created industries like Silicon Valley, Detroit and Big Oil but has also given us sex-laden hollywood and good ol po-rn (a billion+ dollar industry ) You can moralize all you want, but we live in a free world, not the Dystopian world of mind control freaks which George Orwell depicted in his novel 1984 and which ironically, you're espousing in your preachy think piece

All these are clear signs of end time
iniquity shall abound
it can't get better
we should expect more than these
i congratulate the writer and wish he can launch a public campaign on indecency pervading the entertainment world in all ramifications.

I'M TIRED OF HEARING THIS FOOLISH ARGUMENT COMPARING BBA TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE
ONLY A FOOL WOULD COMPARE THE TWO. HOW DOES FOOTBALL-SPORTS = REALITY TV?
SMH

@OP I'm tired of al these BBA this ....BBA that! For crying out loud, BBA channel is not automatic to subscribers in Nigeria. To access it, you need to text your decoder smart card details.

If you did and are crying hues about it, why did you do it in the first place? You thought BBA is about 'church tinz'?

The kids you're trying to protect are the same kids spreading nude pix of themselves through 2go, BBM etc ...I'm still waiting for a write up on this from someone.

Instead of looking beyond for ways to curb our youth's excesses we are busy grumbling. Train your kids well and fend for them ...and they will never go 'Chasing' after Big Brother's cash!

Reality TV changes our Morality subliminally. TD jakes Said. As Christian We are Not Persecuted The way stephen Was, But we are persecuted In our Ideas.(We watch Trash and our Morality/ideas are changed) BBA and Most reality TV are Ploys that corrupt our morals insidiously.

Its horrible,I know a 14yr old girl who opened up on how popular the program is in her school,but what is even amazing is that she watches it at home with her above 50yrs parents and they even intimate each other about what's happening in the house.when people like Beverly have become popular among teenage girls,u don't have to guess their future.Fact is,most parents/adults do not even know or care about this

Pls can we knw d mission statement of BBA and deir vision. Wat r they promoting.its my prayer dat God wil help Africa not only Nigeria dis tm arnd.I thnk we av laws governing tins lk dis in d media yet because dey 2 watch it, dey neglect d law.so many tins r wrong in my country Nigeria e.g d issue of child bride,no gud road,poor electricity,insecurity,unemploymente.t.c

I believe that big brother channel is a lau-per-view channel. So if you don't wanna watch, don't pay for it.

Simple as abc

Psst! The so called TV programs are designed by psychoanalysts to structurally re-engineer the masses so they become efficient repulsive consumers, wanting the good life, oblivious of reality. Our youths are in a coma not sleeping. We need to revive them. Back to life back to reality.

,,,for those who missed this.....what is the difference between the BBA show and pornography

Whoeva wrote this article i love u so much, cos i rememba askin sum1 this question some weeks back. A supposed BBA die-hard fan

i am gonna spread this as far as i can...thanks again for this piece

armadeo: I don't watch big brother but if an adult decides to watch it then that's his prob. As for exposure to kids there's a code that stops viewing programs specified beneath the age range.

I could also ask the same of premier league what do u gain from watching it?? Following players lives what sch their kids go to etc.

Pls big brother is not our problem but intrinsic nigerian issues like bad leadership for one.

u dnt v a point..ohhh..d bible or d quran support dis ba?u tryn to tel me as an adult it is allowed in ur religion to watch sumfin dats more or less porn..let's face d fact..BBA is total shit..

BIG BROTHEL AFRICA

I don't understand why people will read an article like this and rather than reflect soberly go about writing rubbish. If you have no comment keep quiet. The western world is a moally dead society and they will do anything to see that what is left of morality in Africa is also destroyed. BBA is a means of colonizing our cultural and moral values and it is obvious that some of us here are already slaves of this neo-colonialist agenda. Sad

Go Bervely Osu, na you go win the money.....nothing for elikim, melvin and d rest

.......But the same western world is inventing things from Drugs to Electronics to Automoblies to aircrafts to advanced medical techniques to cloud computing and the same internet yu are usin was gotten from them, wetin yu mr i good don bring.

.....Funny enuf the same ''immoral west'' is the most developed part of the earth.....as if na morality dey develop person.

My problem is the show title. They should please remove the 'Africa' tag frm it and stop projecting us to the whole world in such a bad light.

Ask Obama about the bill on Homosexual and Lesbians they passed in America .Let him kiss my ass .His problem is kim Kadeshian and Kanye West.Let check his brain

armadeo: I don't watch big brother but if an adult decides to watch it then that's his prob. As for exposure to kids there's a code that stops viewing programs specified beneath the age range.

I could also ask the same of premier league what do u gain from watching it?? Following players lives what sch their kids go to etc.

Pls big brother is not our problem but intrinsic nigerian issues like bad leadership for one.

u reason through the anus u goatish donkey

armadeo: I don't watch big brother but if an adult decides to watch it then that's his prob. As for exposure to kids there's a code that stops viewing programs specified beneath the age range.

I could also ask the same of premier league what do u gain from watching it?? Following players lives what sch their kids go to etc.

Pls big brother is not our problem but intrinsic nigerian issues like bad leadership for one.

I have read with keen interest about commentaries on the activities of the participants in the program called Big Brother Africa (BBA). Though, I have been blessed not to have watched any of the episodes live, it is interesting to read about some of the rotten activities taking place among the participants. Things that is shameful to mention what more when it done and aired for people’s consumption and we see people applauding and promoting such program with huge resources that should have been directed to some meaningful activities that will help humanity.
Actually if we have good leaders such useless, vulgar and anti cultural programs should on no account filter the screen of our electronic media. Let me say this, that there is “freedom and there is freedom to bondage”. What most people are fighting to gain nowadays is freedom to bondage not really freedom. Yes everybody should be free to watch whatever h/she deem fit in his/ her bed room, but one fact we are trying to ignore is that after watching such things they translate in the public life of such individuals, thereby in one way or the other causing moral pollution in the society.
Such vile programs does not in any way help in promoting the real freedom rather directly and indirectly dragging humanity into more shackles of moral dilapidation. Yet we and even our so called leaders celebrate these insanities in the name of modern mores. I was shocked by the gesture of President Jonathan to congratulate a onetime Nigerian winner of this debased program called BBA. Why? Just because he wanted to identify himself with the youths or probably with the current modernization vehicle that is moving in the wrong direction, of which many whose eyes are open but their minds or spirits are in the darkness are promoting.
My people we are fast losing ourselves to these immoral programs and activities surging up here and there in our society today. Our children no longer have their rights as supposed, we no longer respect them as children, and we treat them as adult. It is too bad to see on the walk ways of the major cities in Nigeria that traders and vendors display pornographic movies and magazines while children coming back from school and certain errands watch. Why is there such a sharp decline in our moral life? Where are those norms and societal values that bond our integrity as a people? We are no longer who we are, we are fast becoming other people, which mean that we have lost ourselves…… this is too bad to know.

......as if corruption,tribalism,ethno-religious crisis promotes africa in a good light...the light sef nor con dey........

Cubeet: Go Bervely Osu, na you go win the money.....nothing for elikim, melvin and d rest

ryt....u have just given credence to the fact that sex sells...smh

berem: Can someone give me a better explanation of this thread. don't seem to understand!

don't laugh,the writter is saying BBA, a t.v program watched by less than 1% of africans would stop Nigeria from becoming a developed country.

armadeo: I don't watch big brother but if an adult decides to watch it then that's his prob. As for exposure to kids there's a code that stops viewing programs specified beneath the age range.

I could also ask the same of premier league what do u gain from watching it?? Following players lives what sch their kids go to etc.

Pls big brother is not our problem but intrinsic nigerian issues like bad leadership for one.

POINT OF CORRECTION MY DEAR PREMIER SHOWS U HOW HARD WORK PRODUCED SUCCESS N IT ALSO HELP THOSE IN THAT FILED TO FIND A ROLE MODEL PLUS PLENTY OTHER THINGS TOO MUCH TO MENTION PLUS THE ENTERTAINMENT IT PRODUCES

BBA IS FULL OF SHIT,NO VALUE,NO ONE ATOM OF SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY...HOW DOES IT ADD TO THE SOCIETY...TEACHING OUR YOUNG BOYS N GIRLS HOW TO BE PORNOGRAPHIC INCLINED N BY EXPOSING THEIR BODIES TO THE WORLD FOR QUICK MONEY...
PROBABLY U WLD B PROUD IF UR BROTHER OR SISTER IS BEEN USED N BEEN FOOLISH LIKE THAT...

aceTS:
don't laugh,the writter is saying BBA, a t.v program watched by less than 1% of africans would stop Nigeria from becoming a developed country.

PLs grow up! This programme is really rubbish! It is nothing short of Pornography. It is just an avenue of People coming to taste the sexual lifestyle of other country men. If we are truthful to ourselves, we will not hide the truth of moral decadence exhibited by this programme. We expect that BB should put stringent measures and rules in the house to curb the rubbish they are doing there.

Wat's even dat program called BBA ? I can't take ma precious tym to watch it due to it's indecency , pipo sayin dey shld leave it 4 dos who wanna watch it are juz as bad as d house mates coz d program teaches notin in ma opinoin instead brings imorality to our society.

yea its meant for +18 minds that are matured... What you are saying is quite irrelevant... If they are under developing Africa bring up a reality programme of your own that will actually pay, three thousand dollars..

Like someone said...BBA is strictly for entertainment meant for adults...so u shld xpect no or little education frm thr. . . If u can't tell me what to eat why should u tell me what to watch? you dat is crying n screaming on top of ur voice bout indecency, wat have you done bout d gals dat wear micro mini skirts n bossom xposing clothes in ur street (dats if not in ur house sef)?
FYI=== i sometimes enjoy watching BBA, depending solely on my mind. I'm an adult n nt a kid n i knw exactly wat i wnt.
@Op, do u av a gf? Do u av sex wit her evn whn u're nt married? Wat do u call dat? Moral wat? I rest my case.

Anyone who watches musical videos (local or foreign) and criticize big brother Africa is a hypocrite.

People sound as if BBA is about sex. The concept is just to get adults into a house for 91 days and see how they live, behave, relate while every move they make is showed. Some fall in love, some are weak and fall into sex whereas there are much more housemates who never fell into sex or even love.

The few housemates who get intimate in the house usually hide under the sheet and the TV changes from that scene. Such immoral scenes are made into video and put into the BBA website for those interested to pay with credit card to watch. When the season close, the sites too is usually closed immediately such that the videos are taken offline.

I have followed BBA from season 4, the most explicit content I do see is girls occasionally in bikini. You see worse whenever you watch a musical clip. So why the noise? Last season I never for once saw a sex scene in all the 91 days. This season I have not also seen any sex scene, only people who stay glue to the Channel 24/7 for 91 days are capable of catching these scenes which mostly happen late nights. What will one gain to stay up late nights for 91 days just to see if you will see two adults enter under the blanket and watch it shaking? All these BBA sex clips circulating are gotten by those lust filled beings who pay via credit card to watch them, then again criticize after watching.

Nigerian housemates who never got intimate in the house from season 4.

1. Kevin, winner of season 4 never did it. ... Kevin is happily married to his season's BBA mate, beautiful Elizabeth from Tanzania. They have kids.

2. Uti, winner of season 5

3. Karen, winner of season 6

7. Goldie. Fell in love but never had sex there. Also the other two Nigeria guys who went to same BBA with Goldie. Ola and his friend.

8. This year, so far I have not heard of inappropriate behaviour from Melvin. Although our girl Berverly needs deliverance. It is obvious she needs help to overcome the spirit of Jezebel in her.

BBA is just a show in its own dimension, it is not about immoral intimacy. Majority of the mates do not get intimate in the 91 days they spend there.

Most of these people who are drooling for BBA will certainly stop watching this filth if it's properly censored and all the amorous scenes and lewd acts removed. They get their kick from these obscene scenes. BBA is filth.

EmmyDe25: My problem is the show title. They should please remove the 'Africa' tag frm it and stop projecting us to the whole world in such a bad light.

There is Big brother Europe, big brother brazil, etc. It's everywhere. Big brother Africa is a saint compared to the foreign ones. Over there it is unclad competition among the mates. Most times the foreign version housemates don't even wear bikini when they go swimming and their bathrooms and locker rooms are showed live uncensored.

I beg read wide before you post.

Mr writer, ur compain is dead on arrival.. 1. Did they force U to watch it? NO 2. Is it aired on NTA,AIT n CHANNELS tv? NO. for u to complain shows u even watchd it n also paid ur dstv subscription so why the cry? Stop seekin for patronage cos u wont get. Dia r numerous ways immorality has invaded our societies of wich BBA isn't the major. I'm not a fan of it bt dosnt mean i shud condemn it. There are crucial issues ravagin our welbeing dat needs ur long grammar to address; unemployment corruption bad leadership et al.. :PMr writer, ur compain is dead on arrival.. 1. Did they force U to watch it? NO 2. Is it aired on NTA,AIT n CHANNELS tv? NO. for u to complain shows u even watchd it n also paid ur dstv subscription so why the cry? Stop seekin for patronage cos u wont get. Dia r numerous ways immorality has invaded our societies of wich BBA isn't the major. I'm not a fan of it bt dosnt mean i shud condemn it. There are crucial issues ravagin our welbeing dat needs ur long grammar to address; unemployment corruption bad leadership et al..