Details As Reality show Hosts From Kenya & Nigeria Feature On Glo-Powered CNN African Voices

The Globacom-sponsored African Voices Changemakers on CNN International promises to be fascinating this weekend as it engages three reality TV  show hosts from Nigeria and Kenya.

The three young Africans have carved a niche for themselves on the continent with the  unique  reality television shows hosted by them. They include  Seyi ‘Shedams’ Olusore and Olawunmi ‘Olah’ Oyedeji , both Nigerians, and Patricia Gichinga, a Kenyan.

Olusore, a popular  fitness trainer,  is the brain behind  Nigeria’s first Weightloss Reality TV Show- The faSttest Shedder where he also serves  as  the show’s official trainer. He will take viewers through the details of operations at the 90-day intensive weight-loss show.

His degree in Computer Engineering at the Covenant University notwithstanding,  Olusore chose fitness training and became a Certified Health & Wellness Expert of Arizona State University and a Certified CPR/AED/First-Aid from the National CPR Foundation, USA. 

His counterpart, Oyedeji, is a business development  manager, director, producer ,TV content creator and film maker who created   Nigeria’s ‘Try My Job’, a reality television show conceptualised to resolve social justice issues and tackle unemployment using the instrument of entertainment. The TV show has caught on with the populace and has been  endorsed by the Lagos State Ministry of Wealth Creation and supported by Ford Foundation.

He is as well  the creator of Project Renew  which is focused on renewing the minds of the average Nigerian beginning from the grassroots and using  a tripodal system  that includes seminars, skills acquisition and talent hunt.

Gichinga, from Kenya,  is the Head Producer, Mediae, Kenya. Her farming TV reality show, Shamba Shape Up,  remains East Africa’s leading agricultural TV program. The  reality make-over show  is filmed on small scale  farms thereby addressing  the problems of the farmers in the bid to increase production and encourage farming as a business in Kenya and Tanzania. The programme  is beamed to  over 8 million households each week in English and Swahili.

African Voices Changemakers will be on CNN at 9.30 a.m. and on Saturday at 12.30 p.m., 5.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. while repeat broadcasts will be beamed on Sunday at 5.00 a.m., 9.30 a.m. and 8.30 p.m., with more repeats on Monday and Tuesday at 5.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. respectively.