THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF AFRICA; THE VILLAGE SISTER-WIVES EDITION

 THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF AFRICA; THE VILLAGE SISTER-WIVES EDITION

The producers of the real housewives franchise should be cramming into African villages, if they want juicy content for their massive hit show. I mean no one churns more drama than village sister-wives in polygamous alliances. These village lasses are masters of chaos and disorder, creating a perfect recipe for television history. Should these creators desire noteworthy storylines, then there is a windfall of opportunities for content within the remote villages of Africa, which will leave their audience begging for more screenplay.

Nonetheless, there will be no need of scripting the episodes, for the scenes will automatically write themselves. All that is needed is for the show makers to engage a ten-party situation per village, for intriguing performances. Also, there will be no need to play-pretend with these hamlet queens, for what you will see is what you will get. The drama will be as real and as good.

Sure, producers would prefer a more controlled class action but who better to stream story tales free style than the villagers themselves? Besides, I do believe that being classy is overrated. Instead, I would suggest to the promoters to film raw footage of the village people in their element, and they will be surprised of the kind of pulsating content they will capture.

Welcome to the motherland, where bodies are real and the drama is free. There will be no need for cosmetic surgery, for God has endowed the natives with natural frames, print fashion, cutthroat conversations, and a huge appetite for drama. There also will be no need for wardrobe and makeup. Just lights, camera and action is all that will be needed, to reproduce the story lines in their rawest form.

Moreover, the weather in equatorial Africa will be very favourable, as opposed to the weather in Sub-Sahara and North Africa, which is mostly dry and windy. Yet, who cares about the weather, with a hit television show at hand? If the content for melodrama is situated in the Okavango Swamp or the Sahara desert, then that is where the production should drive to.

However, the producers will also be required to hire translators, who understand the authentic dialects of the myriad languages spoken in distant communes of Africa. It will not be an easy task translating word for word, the meaning and the context of the dialogues that will be captured in the telecast, for some similar words and phrases will vary, based on circumstances or situations. This part of the transmission process will be very challenging and tasking, hence it will require uttermost resilience and perseverance.

On the contrary, the protagonists will require a huge pay-out, for their ability to generate spectacles will be unmatched. Yes, the village wives will need to be heavily compensated financially for their potential to be multi-faceted. As a result, the show architects will have to invest more in remunerations, air time and cameras, in order to keep the drama rolling.

Equally, it is best for the production team to outsource security, for all the villagers are somewhat related to the sister-wives, and have most definitely taken sides with their own relations. No matter how well the production company decides to pay the village security, best believe that they will always side with their relatives.

Even if the producers legally sign binding contracts with them, it will discover the hard way that blood is thicker than water. Besides, those legal contractuals are not as binding in the remote villages of Africa, as they are abroad, for most village cases are settled by semi-illiterate traditionally elderly men, with their counsel chambers under shady mango trees.

The show originators will also have to save the poor husbands from onset signs of depression, if they have to survive the many seasons of the show, for things will get even thicker, as the series rolls out. However, most husbands to the protagonists will be able to grab the heat by the horns and direct the show to their own advantage, for they are the heads of these polygamous families, and therefore capable of steering the narrative of the show. This will not necessarily be a negative thing, as it is the husbands who will decide whether or not the show will go on.

Therefore, the input from the husbands may change the entire perspective of the show and give a unique twist. Similarly, the children of the sister-wives will also be a good addition to the main cast, for they would be equally as drama-charged as their mothers, yet morally it would be best to leave them alone, for they will be considered as innocent, and therefore need not to be included in the show.