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Uganda: Love Chase in Big Brother

Nigel Nassar

4 September 2008

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Kampala — IT is as bad as it gets when the one your heart bleeds for doesn't want to know. Ghetto president Bobi Wine would attest to this. I mean he can't have been more spot-on when he sang, Abalungi Balumya, in which he sour-grapes about the beautiful, who mastered the art of playing hard to get.

Perhaps he sang from personal experience, who knows? Sorry, your excellence - after all you have a cool car (and Barbie too).

Well, it's the Big Brother housemates' love life we are talking about. While we, out here, are glued onto the M-Net reality show praying X finds love with Y, turns out Y 'doesn't wanna know', so to say.

So it's a wrong-one-loving-you-right scenario. It started with Botswana's Tawana making a pass at Morris, claiming she had a phobia for sleeping alone and forcing herself into the Ugandan's bed.

Sadly for the goat farmer, her target did not reciprocate her affection. Instead, Morris ended up with Tanzania's Latoya.

And guess what Latoya's intentions for our boy are - to use him enhance her self-esteem in the run-up for the sh170m jackpot at stake.

In fact, she told Biggie she was just having fun with the boys. Yet, poor Morris has lately been bitten by the love bug and hates it that Latoya gets lovey-dovey with him during the day, and shares a bed with Angola's Ricco at night, where kisses dominate the night's menu.

The Ugandan is so bothered that last week he confronted Ricco, but the Angolan told him off. "Man, don't blame me because I am doing your job for you - keeping her warm at night," the hyper boy told Morris - no wonder he nominated the Ugandan.

By the way, is Ricco straight? You should have seen how he looked forward to kissing Uti last week when dared to do so. Doesn't his cross-dressing paste egg on his face?

And how come he does not seem to be genuinely smitten by any of the girls in the house other than giving a noncommittal interest here and there?

Back to Tawana, poor lady hasn't given up trying to find love. On realising Morris was far from being baited, she re-strategised, this time aiming her cupid arrow at Zimbabwe's Munya.

She kept throwing herself at him during a party on Saturday, soliciting for kisses. And when the light was lost on Munya, she hit the nail at the top, telling the Zimbabwean she 'wanted' him.

A shocked Munya was lost for words - if only Tawana knew how Munya's heart bleeds for Namibia's Lucille and 'didn't wana know' the goat farmer even existed!

And speaking of Lucille, she has all the boys eyeing her, including Morris, who after openly landing for her on the first day, feared to let go of any more emotions to date.

Maybe she also liked him because she invited him to her bed that night, but he refused.

And her delay to get involved with Munya could be that she was waiting for Morris in vain.

And much as she kissed Munya, she told Zambia's TK that the kiss was just about it, nothing serious.

Yet, TK has feelings for her, but she relegated him to the 'friends' zone. Interestingly, Kenya's Sheila had a thing for TK.

But with TK's infatuation for Lucille scribbled on every wall, the Kenyan now says she has the hots for Latoya (she likes both sexes), claiming "there's something sensual about Latoya."

But is Latoya ready to venture into the changing-sexual-orientation lane? By the way, Sheila also liked Munya, who was too busy chasing the stars.

As for South Africa's Thami, he literally chased Lucille in vain. Then he tried Hazel to no avail. Now he has given up - and got so frustrated he recently threw away the housemates' cigarettes and meat, getting a punishment not to eat any more meat in the house until Biggie grants 'parole.'

Now that Thami thinks he is up for eviction, won't the house get struck by famine? And to think it's probably all out of love Sincerely how more intricate can love get? DStv Channel 198

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