By Amin Kef Sesay
It is usually said that all good things must come to an end. Again it goes that any beginning must have an ending. The Housemates Salone Season 2 Reality TV Show that has captured the admiration of many in and out of the country, has successfully come to a surprising end with one Housemate emerging the lucky winner and grabbing the star prize of Le250 million.
What had started out as a competition with 52 contestants has finally ended with one contestant emerging winner while the first runner-up and other contestants are not left out as they too received various amounts for their stay in the House.
Indeed, the winning prize is mouth-watering and seducing and it is now up to the winner to use this amount wisely to improve his/her life through various investments and campaigns.
It is now up to the winner to come up with a good financial plan so that this huge amount of money could serve as seed money for any meaningful investment. It could be used as a start-up capital by the winner to become a young entrepreneur or for the furtherance of an educational pursuit.
Youth empowerment is at the core of this Reality TV Show as designed by the organizers, Africell – Sierra Leone and the Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire. Throughout the duration of the show the Housemates were mentally and physically tested on various occasions availing them the opportunity to learn new skills and improving on existing ones.
They improved on their cooking abilities, learnt how to play new games as a team, and were asked to debate in teams on various topics and subject matters; they also benefitted from motivational speeches, they also learnt how to dress for certain occasions, and learnt how to express themselves fluently among a host of other creative ideas and public performances.
One of the significant ways in which the Housemates during the duration of the show were empowered was through giving them the opportunity to interact on a normal basis as well as via partying. They socialized, were paired and exchanged ideas, while gossiping and courting relationships were a daily occurrence.
The huge following the show attracted made it possible for all the Housemates to be widely exposed. This exposure has now put them at vantage positions to be earmarked for future public appearances or promotional auditions and put them at advantage of being selected for by corporate institutions as Brand Ambassadors, role models etc. As a matter of fact, the lifestyles of the Housemates Salone Season 2 will never be the same again and it is possible that what they have learnt could be cascaded to benefit other young people.
Without mincing the truth, Housemates Salone has once again put Sierra Leone on the international entertainment limelight as one country where attractive, brilliant, loving young people are doing wonderful things thereby dispelling the myth that the country is still a theatre of war and a haven for blood diamonds. The show is helping erode these negative perceptions.
