Actor Segun Arinze and director Ifeanyi Onyeabor are joining forces for a new reality TV show called The Heroes: Back to the Roots.
Nigeria’s first cultural reality TV show, The Heroes: Back to the Roots,
is also set to commence auditions at the twelve designated centres
nationwide. This was made known in Lagos by the producer of the realty
TV show, Chinyere Ogbukagu of De Havillah Timeless Productions, Jos.
According to her, prospective participants at the reality TV show are to
obtain the form at all branches of the First City Monument Bank
nationwide by paying into the Havillah Timeless account, with which they
can attend auditions at the centres listed against the dates on the
show’s website.
The host of
the show, Segun Arinze, a Nollywood star, said he was ready to take the
final 37 contestants who would emerge from the various states of the
federation and the FCT into the house for the specific tasks which would
stem from their deep knowledge of the Nigerian culture.
Technical director
of the production, who is Nollywood filmmaker, Ifeanyi Onyeabor had
this to say about the show which would avail winners with SUV, cash
prizes and movie roles:
“A people
without culture are like a people without a past, a foundation. Culture
is a veritable medium for galvanising a people predicated on attitudinal
behaviours, dress sense, foods, ways of life, heroics and visionary
latitudes. This reality show
therefore is an expository presentation to the front burner that will
drive cultural content until sustenance and to largely put an end to the
alarming drift to the doldrums, as many youth are alien to their
culture and resultantly, roots. A disproportionate but shocking
percentage of the youth, do not know how to cook, speak their native
languages, be identified through dressing, distances from their roots
and foundational past as a people linked with the apron strings of
culture.
It is disastrous to imagine that the release on the British Broadcasting
Corporation a few years ago, on the imminent extinction of most Nigeria
Languages could hold sway, if concerted efforts were not made, to halt
the drift. Furthermore, most youths do not understand or know their
cultural dances, traditional farming implements and methods, engage in commodity trade
in their ethnic Languages just as the French do. A resurgence of our
culture will bring in its wake the showcasing of the tourism potentials
inherent in our various geo – political zones and therefore promote
tourism in our nation-state Nigeria, proudly present our rich cultural
heritage and tell our story, as a people and precipitate unity and
homogeneity in diversity.
Such tourism sites
could be found in Jos, Plateau State with the water falls (Kura and
Asop falls), the beautiful and rocky terrain with its clement weather
conditions; Minna, Niger State with the Guara falls and Kainji Dam, to
mention a few. Therefore, as a people, there is the need for identifying
with this reality show, which is geared towards achieving the issues
and instill bonding”.
visit >>> www.theheroesnigeria.com for more information about The Heroes Reality TV Show
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