jazz. /dʒaz/
noun (Nigerian Context)
Something that lacks meaning; useless or senseless.
That said, I would like to begin by stating that I have never been a fan of broadcast messages on social media, most especially the annoying one that ends wit the promise of a blessing and like a tossed coin, the threat of a curse.
However from the moment I received the " I am Jazz rise up call", I was quite hesitant to read but eventually did.
Recent happenings in the world we live in emphatically affirm the belief that the universe is getting sicker by the hour and until you come to the realisation of this obvious fact, only then can you rid yourself of the shock and anxiety that accompany anomalies that we daily witness.
According to Wikipedia, I am Jazz is an American reality television series on TLC about a transgender girl called Jazz Jennings. The 11-part series features Jazz and her family "dealing with typical teen drama through the lens of a transgender youth.
Well there are alleged plans by Multi choice to introduce this transgender theme soap opera for young viewers starting Oct 27 2015 and one might be tempted to ask, to what cause?
In my undergraduate years in the University of Benin, Professor M.K.C Uwajeh reiterated into our ears the importance of context to semantics, and not that I mean to bamboozle you with my linguistics jargons but same applies to real life issues.
In introducing a concept(text) into a society, one must take cognisance the values and beliefs of the society(context) but has DSTV undertaken this process and if they have, there most definitely must be a sinister motive because one can be rest assured that this program failed the contextual test.
We need no soothsayers to tell that there is a cost for wersternization, it is the depletion of age long beliefs and values and Nigeria cannot be an exception.
The west operates with its yardstick which believes that it is right to tread down the pathway of the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, and where up holders of morality like Kim Davis are locked behind bars.
They rather bestow the award of courage on a man who for his selfish desire of remaining in the limelight and quest for fortune, jilted Bruce Jenner for Caitlyn Jenner than bestow it on Lauren Hill, who courageously battled brain cancer while staying on the university basket ball team and eventually losing the fight for her life. This is the path that Multi choice seem poised to tread.
Even with the strict posture of our society towards transition from male to female, we still have some Nigerian transgender, imagine the resulting effect when our kids are glued to TV series watching this tv series.
Our television sets have been raided by foreign tv shows that create facade and illusions about relationship and sex while our home produced shows that teach moral values have gradually been thrown into the trash can.
The Nigerian National Broadcasting Commission must truly rise to its duty of protecting the public and not just by the warning shot fired by its Director of Public Affairs, Awwalu Salihu, that asserts the commission's willingness to investigate, and pull the plug if the programme is guilty of promoting undesirable desires, else Cable Tv introduces hardcore same sex movies after they are done with "I am Jazz" for in the wise words of my father " Na from clap them dey take enter dance".
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