Media News - Thursday, November 26, 2009

Nigeria set for ‘Green Big Brother’ show

Nigeria's most celebrated environmental campaigner is about to launch a reality TV show to highlight the dangers of global warming for Africans. At almost 72 years of age, Newton Jibunoh will be taking a band of 15 young men and women from Nigeria and neighbouring Niger with him. He will select his travelling companions from an initial group of 50 as part of a reality TV show to be broadcast in both countries. The show, called Desert Warriors, will be set in the ancient Tuareg settlement of Agadez - the last town in northern Niger before civilisation gives way to the sand. There, candidates will be put through a series of tough physical and mental endurance exercises, extreme driving tests and group tasks measuring their ability to bond with their team-mates in pressurised situations. Like Big Brother, which has been phenomenally popular across the continent, the viewing public will be able to vote for the "warrior" they would most like to see make the final 15. The show is his way of spreading the word to a new generation of African environmentalists. The show is scheduled to run through early December and will eventually be distributed across a wide swath of the sub-region, potentially reaching many millions of African homes. Mr Jibunoh says he wants to tackle the perception amongst many Africans that global warming is the preserve of Western charities and wealthy Africans, and has no bearing on their everyday lives. (BBC News)

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