BBAHotshots: It Is Not Easy For Kenya To Win It

Do I sound like that proverbial prophet of doom? May be. May be not. But that is not what my intentions are. It is crystal clear that when it comes to the biggest reality show in continental Africa, the Big Brother Africa, Kenya and her East Africa neighbours are utterly disadvantaged.

That is the negative side of nations merging to form regions.
The voting process and how votes are counted puts us (Kenya and her neighbours) at a risk of losing the coveted award.
Already Kenya’s female representative Sabina has been kicked out of the contest after garnering the least amount of votes.

When evictions were done last Sunday, Sabina could have survived but because Uganda had a representative already evicted, Sabina had to bear the burden of facing the wrath of the panel. She had actually tied with another representative from Uganda.
That is how harsh the eviction exercise is.
But who is to blame?

Here is what happens. When you vote, your vote is counted as one. It is a country. So even if all the 40 million Kenyans cast their votes for the remaining contestant, Melvin Alusa, it will be counted as a single vote.

This explains why there are only 14 votes because the number of countries being represented in the show is 13 and those not represented are counted as Rest of Africa, and have one vote.
Early on I talked of East Africa not winning this contest. You see it will be so ironical for a Kenyan to vote for a Ugandan or a Tanzanian representative and yet our own ALUSA is in the race.
Someone is already asking why CMB Prezzo managed to juggle his way to the finals of the contest. That is simple. There was no other East African contestant to rival him. Prezzo was lucky.

With East Africa still well represented in the reality show, the contestants are likely to garner a vote each from the three countries. This is absurd, right?
Unless votes come from other countries in support of our own, ALUSA is likely to be back any time from now.
So how do we entice other countries to vote for our Alusa? That is the biggest puzzle that we must unravel.
Alusa’s survival is not in our hands. It is in the hands of other African nations.

40 million votes from Kenya= 1 vote
90 million votes from Nigeria= 1 vote
30 million votes from Namibia= 1 vote
40 million votes from Tanzania= 1 vote
30 million votes from Uganda= 1 vote
Et al et al et al...
All we can do is wish Alusa all the best of luck. But that does not mean we do not vote. We must vote for our own Alusa.