Big Brother Africa 7 (also known as Big Brother Africa: StarGame!) was the seventh season of the Big Brother Africa reality television series produced by Endemol for M-Net. It began on 6 May 2012, and ran for 91 days ending on 5 August 2012. Ikponmwosa "IK" Osakioduwa came back to host the show for the fourth time in a row. The first episode had live performances from American rapper J. Cole, Kenyan hip hop group Camp Mulla, Nigerian musicians P-Square, Naeto C, Flavour and Davido, and South African artist Aemo E'Face in the opening ceremony. On Thursday, 14 February 2013; Goldie died at the age of 29 after returning from the Grammy Awards. She is the first Big Brother Africa ex-housemate to die.
Format
There were thirty five housemates this season and lived in two houses. Upville and Downville. Seven of the thirty five were celebrity housemates who lived in the Upville House while the remaining twenty eight lived in the Downville House. The housemates were competing for US$300,000. This season also featured the Random Lottery Nomination where two countries from the Downville House will be nominated for the week and depending on the votes, the survivors will move to the Upville House while the rest are evicted. This year, fourteen countries participated in the season. Each country had two representatives paired up as Big Brother Friends plus seven celebrities from the fourteen African countries. Of the fourteen countries, twelve of them were returning countries while the other two were new ones. The twelve returning countries were Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The two new countries were Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Housemates
On Day 1, thirty five housemates entered the House on launch night including 7 celebrity contestants.
Celebrity contestant.
Nominations table
Legend: Red names indicate Upville housemates. Blue names indicate Downville housemates.
Nominations total received
Legend: Red names indicate Upville housemates. Blue names indicate Downville housemates. Head of House of the week. No nominations for that house for the week. Nominated for the week. Immune from nominations for the week.
Voting history
Survivor(s) of the vote.
Nominations and voting notes
Week 1
On Day 1, Tanzania and Zimbabwe were nominated via the Random Lottery Nomination, making Hilda, Julio, Maneta and Teclar up for eviction for the week.
This week, viewers voted for the housemate they wanted to save and these were the results: Maneta received 8 votes to save: Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Rest of Africa. Hilda received 6 votes to save: Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda. Julio received 1 vote to save: Angola. Teclar received no votes to save.
On Day 7, Hilda, Julio and Teclar were evicted while Maneta moved to the Upville House.
Week 2
On Day 8, Liberia and Sierra Leone were nominated via the Random Lottery Nomination, making Dalphin, Luke, Yadel and Zainab up for eviction for the week.
On Day 12, Chris and Ola walked out of the house due to the latter's health problems.
This week, viewers voted for housemate they wanted to save and these were the results: Zainab received 13 votes to save: Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Rest of Africa. Luke received 1 vote to save: Zambia. Yadel received 1 vote to save: Liberia. Dalphin received no votes to save.
On Day 14, Dalphin, Luke and Yadel were evicted while Zainab moved to the Upville House.
Week 3
On Day 15, nominations occurred in the Upville House. Zainab was exempted from the nominations after joining the house the previous day.
The initial nominees were DKB, Mampi and Maneta.Head of House, DKB decided to save himself and replace himself with Lady May.Therefore, Lady May, Mampi and Maneta were up for eviction for the week.
This week, viewers voted for the housemate they wanted to save and these were the results: Lady May received 12 votes to save: Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Rest of Africa. Maneta received 2 votes to save: Botswana and Zimbabwe. Mampi received 1 vote to save: Zambia.
On Day 21, Mampi was evicted.
Week 4
On Day 22, Botswana and Ghana were nominated via the Random Lottery Nomination, making Edith, Eve, Keitta and Mildred up for eviction for the week.
On Day 26, Esperanca and Seydou walked out of the house due to the former's personal issues.