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There’s a Yoruba proverb which goes thus – Ikú n pa agílíntí aláwo, ábèlèntásé Olóògùn tí n f’awo rè se onde; translated – Death befalls the thick-skinned alligator, talk more the Sorcerer who uses it’s skin as djinn or talisman. This proverb explains the point of this piece.
So yesterday, I woke up to a social media clamor about Big Brother Naija 2017 #BBNaija, I saw two or three posts asking that it be banned, for being Big Brother Naija. Funny, isn’t it?
This anti-BBNaija clamor came predominantly from self-acclaimed, and a tad self-absorbed, intellectuals who believe the show is a harbinger of moral and societal decay for Nigeria and the Nigerian.
“I don’t know what else one would expect, if not uncouth senselessness, when fame-seeking, self-glorifying, self-regarding, self-delusional, narcissistic and partially demented bunch of me-junkies are packed into a house with the futile search of self-validation as their sole intent, and also with just the increase of viewer-base and pecuniary gain on the Producers’ mind”
This excerpt above is from a piece I wrote 5 years ago during the Big Brother Stargame, titled ‘Dear Africa, this is not thy Big Brother‘; So, naivete intellectualism? been there, done that! ?
See, we shouldn’t be seen barking at a tree with a form of faux confidence similar to that of the Sorcerer in the first paragraph (Yoruba proverb) above. Nigeria as a country has remained in a pooh of sorts because we like barking at the tree, this knockout knack to just misdirect angst.
For example, this is a country where rapists seldom get sentenced, where a talented female adult cannot comfortably enter a parastatal or private Corp with a brilliant proposal, without the risk of being ogled and ‘sextorted’ to earn some listening, where pedophiles confidently buy penile pleasure with cervical currencies; core issues that we only lip-sync. Yet, we think the very forefelt bigbrotherness of big brother Naija is what deserves the venom of our intellectual 2 kobo? I taya.
Bros and Sisto intellectual of the moral police force, #BBNaija is an end, and you’re telling us to ignore the means? That we should just end an end? Ha! I taya.
Right now, our angst shouldn’t be directed towards Endemol and Multichoice for setting up a profit-poised show that has obviously allowed some people to publicize their skills “HEADlong“, rather, here lies a simple question we need to answer – can we sow chaff to reap wheat?
If you’ll only acknowledge the number of teens who with free MB, access and practice porn of any kind on their almost smart phones, you’d easily understand that a ban on #BBNaija plus the attendant outcry we haul at it anytime it’s hoisted, will solve nothing, because it isn’t the root of the decay we so hate.
In as much as we remain a society that is perennially averse to productivity, sound education of the brain, deliberate education of the mind, and the integral workings of institutions, we are bound to remain victims of cause and effect. Our society will remain skinless and spineless, no identity, no core, and therefore, as it stands, anything goes.
So, #BanBBNaija folks, cam dan biko, save your “intellectualism” and social media data for the real solutions if you’re indeed interested.
Gor blez yew.
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I support, Nigeria government should go against it
Don’t be stupid, did you read the title and article at all?
Akinsiku Oluwadayo I am not stupid, I av the right to say my opinion, likewise you so stop acting childish
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They ban the nonense nothing educative there so so Imorality and rubbish.
As if you don’t do worse in your closet
Banning #bbnaija doesn’t add anything to us in Nigeria
No be small barking at a tree.
Udeme Johnson Ituen, don’t be stupid and ignorant, did you read the title and the article itself at all?
This post is saying that banning #bbnaija will not solve anything
Nor be small thing oh
Me I am enjoying the show sef. …my favorite housemate is thin tall Tony
#TeamMarvis
I don’t know why people can’t simply enjoys the show
If you don’t want it, tune to another station for Allahs sake