The first season of Big Brother Africa

Big Brother Africa

Big Brother Africa is a television program produced by Endemol. The show initially involved 12 countries within Africa with two countries being added in season 4...

began on May 25, 2003 and ended on September 7 of the same year, lasting 106 days. Mark Pilgrim (presenter)

Mark Pilgrim (presenter)

Mark Pilgrim is one of the most recognisable personalities in South Africa. He has hosted numerous radio and television shows over the years, most notably as a DJ on 5FM, 94.7 Highveld Stereo and 94.5 Kfm as well as the host of Big Brother and the Power of 10.-Radio career:Mark Pilgrim joined 5FM...

 was the host.

Housemates

• Abby

Abergail Brigette Plaatjies is a 25-year-old fraud consultant from Johannesburg & Durban, South Africa. Abby became the fifth person to be evicted from Big brother Africa on August 17, 2003.

• Alex

Alexander Kasembeli Holi is a 21-year-old student from Nairobi, Kenya. Alex became the third person to be evicted from Big brother Africa on July 20, 2003.

• Bayo

Alexander Adebayo Adetomiwa is a 28-year-old economist from Oturkpo, Nigeria. Bayo became the sixth person to be evicted from Big brother Africa on August 31, 2003.

• Bruna

Bruna Tatiana Estivão is a 25-year-old singer and model from Luanda, Angola. Bruna became the first person to be evicted from Big brother Africa on June 22, 2003.

• Cherise

Cherise Makubale is a 24-year-old procurement officer from Kitwe, Zambia. Cherise won the first season of Big brother Africa on September 7, 2003.

• Gaetano

Gaetano Juko Kagwa is a 30-year-old student from Kampala, Uganda. Gaetano finished in fourth place on September 7, 2003.

• Mwisho

Mwisho Mwampamba is 22 years old and self employed. He is from Morogoro, Tanzania. Mwisho finished in second place on September 7, 2003 lasting 106 days.
In 2010 Mwisho returned as a contestant in Big Brother Africa 5: All-Stars. He came in 4th place lasting all 91 days; he spent a total of 197 days in the Big Brother house combinded.
Currently Mwisho has the record for the most days spent in the Big Brother Africa house with 197.

• Sammi

Samuel Kwame Bampoe is a 28-year-old radio presenter from Akropong Akwapim, Ghana. Sammi became the fourth person to be evicted from Big brother Africa on August 3, 2003.
In 2010 Sammi competed in Big Brother Africa 5: All-Stars and lasted 33 days and was forced to leave due to medical issues. Sammi has spent a total of 103 days in the Big Brother House 70 days for Big Brother Africa season 1 and 33 days for Big Brother Africa 5: All Stars.

• Stefan

Stefan Ludik

Stefan Ludick

Stefan Ludik is a Namibian musician, actor and former cricketer from Windhoek City. He was the first contestant to represent Namibia in the reality television program Big Brother Africa.- Cricket career :...

 is a 22-year-old forensic psycho-physiologist from Windhoek, Namibia. Stefan became the seventh person evicted from Big brother Africa on September 6, 2003.

• Tapuwa

Tapuwa Mhere is a 26-year-old public relations officer from Harare, Zimbabwe. Tapuwa finished in third place on September 7, 2003.

• Warona

Warona Setshwaelo is a 25-year-old video editor from Gaborone, Botswana. Warona finished in fifth place on September 7, 2003.

• Zein

Zein Dudha is a 27-year-old marketing manager from Blantyre, Malawi. Zein became the second person to be evicted from Big brother Africa on July 6, 2003.

Nominations table

		| Week 4		| Week 6		| Week 8		| Week 10		| Week 12		| Week 14		| Week 15		| Final
Cherise	No Nominations	Alex Zein	Stefan Warona	Bayo Warona	Mwisho Stefan	Mwisho Warona	Stefan Tapuwa	Winner (Day 106)
Mwisho	No Nominations	Alex Stefan	Alex Gaetano	Abby Gaetano	Abby Cherise	Cherise Gaetano	Tapuwa Warona	Runner-Up (Day 106)
Tapuwa	No Nominations	Abby Zein	Alex Sammi	Sammi Warona	Stefan Warona	Gaetano Warona	Stefan Warona	Third Place (Day 106)
Warona	No Nominations	Bayo Tapuwa	Bayo Tapuwa	Mwisho Sammi	Abby Gaetano	Cherise Gaetano	Mwisho Tapuwa	Fourth Place (Day 106)
Gaetano	No Nominations	Exempt	Bayo Cherise	Cherise Stefan	Cherise Mwisho	Bayo Stefan	Mwisho Stefan	Fifth Place (Day 106)
Stefan	No Nominations	Bayo Tapuwa	Bayo Tapuwa	Bayo Tapuwa	Abby Gaetano	Bayo Mwisho	Gaetano Mwisho	Evicted (Day 105)
Bayo	No Nominations	Stefan Warona	Stefan Warona	Stefan Warona	Gaetano Mwisho	Gaetano Tapuwa	Evicted (Day 98)
Abby	No Nominations	Tapuwa Zein	Alex Stefan	Mwisho Sammi	Bayo Cherise	Evicted (Day 84)
Sammi	No Nominations	Warona Zein	Gaetano Warona	Gaetano Mwisho	Evicted (Day 70)
Alex	No Nominations	Bayo Tapuwa	Sammi Tapuwa	Evicted (Day 56)
Zein	No Nominations	Bayo Sammi	Evicted (Day 42)
Bruna	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 28)
Against public vote	All housemates	Bayo Tapuwa Zein	Alex Bayo Stefan Tapuwa Warona	Mwisho Sammi Warona	Abby Cherise Gaetano Mwisho	Bayo Cherise Gaetano Mwisho Warona	Mwisho Stefan Tapuwa	All housemates
Nomination note	none		none
Evicted	Bruna ? of 13 to evict	Zein ? of 13 to evict	Alex ? of 13 to evict	Sammi ? of 13 to evict	Abby 11 of 13 to evict	Bayo 9 of 13 to evict	Stefan ? of 13 to evict	Gaetano 1 of 13 to win	Warona 2 of 13 to win
								Tapuwa 2 of 13 to win	Mwisho 2 of 13 to win
								Cherise 6 of 13 to win

Nomination notes

During the second round of nominations Gaetano was taking part in the Big brother swap so he was not in the house thus he was given an exemption.

Swap with the Big Brother house in the United Kingdom

Big Brother Africa contestant Gaetano Kagwa swapped places with Big Brother UK contestant Cameron Stout

Cameron Stout

Cameron Stout was the winner of Big Brother 4 UK in 2003. He received 1.9 million votes, 500,000 more than runner-up Ray Shah. Cameron is the elder brother of television and radio presenter Julyan Sinclair....

. Gaetano (known as Gae), a Ugandan law student was chosen to join UK Big Brother after passing a cocktail-making challenge. He caused upset in the Big Brother UK house when he called contestant Tania a "piggy", causing her to walk off in tears and threaten to leave the UK house for good.

Facts

Big Brother Africa is being shown in America on the Africa Channel. It airs from Nov.2008 till March 2009. It is the 1st non-American Big Brother shown in America.
Big Brother Africa 1 was the only Big Brother from the African series to use its specific eye logo design with the series using a completely different design from series 2 onwards.