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I really don't get it, i don't get it at all. I thought that as the competition went on, The Apprentice Africa would get more interesting but i have been proved terribly wrong. If you watched Episode 13 and didn't doze off at some point, congratulations are in order. If you actually understood what went on throughout the task, you deserve a standing ovation. It was the most boring Episode ever!!!
This last week's task was boring, perhaps because they were selling soap but i strongly doubt it. It was just that, boring.
Am really at a loss of words as regards the last two episodes, perhaps that's why i haven't written anything till now and even now am really struggling but as usual, I'll do the best i can to review both.

Episode 12's task was about Corporate social responsibility where the CEO stressed the importance of giving back to the society. To illustrate this was Bank PHB's national scholarship scheme. The contestants were to make public performances to raise money for the Bank PHB sponsored Victoria Island secondary school. They were to be given a choreographer to work with and access to the National Art Gallery to practice and perfect their performances. They would then make their performances at Galleria shopping centre however, the rules were that no one was allowed to print or prepare any materials to advertise or promote their performances.

Next order of business was picking project managers and this was basically done through rotation because everyone had been PM before. By simple rotation it was Kathleen for Matrix and Regina for Zulu Corp.

Zulu corp then made an emotional visit to Victoria Island secondary school to get a feel of the situation on the ground, get to know the children and their needs. Matrix corp on the other hand went about planning their performance as Zulu was looking for inspiration.

Matrix decided on a short skit about a little orphaned boy forced to sell bread on the streets instead of going to school. Zulu decided to perform a monologue so that at any one time there was only one person on the stage while the rest would move around collecting money.

Matrix was seen distributing fliers at Galleria the day before the performance which was against the rules but they claimed that Zulu had done the same thing though off camera.

On the day of the performance, both teams had a group of young people to help with collecting the money not the performance. Matrix corp was up first and they made a very compelling performance with Isaac as the young bread seller, Kathleen as his poor widowed mother and Eunice as the good Samaritan who eventually helps send him to school till he graduates and becomes a doctor. People were captivated by their performance and as it went on, the volunteers went around the crowd that had gathered collecting money.

Zulu's turn and they took along students from the school for the presentation. Deox opened the show with a loud gong calling people out of their shops this was his only contribution to the performance, he then went off to collect money. The public address system and projector they had hired for so much money failed to work. so they had to scream at the top of their lungs to be heard. The monologue involved Blessing, Tunde and Regina coming on stage one at a time and making a short speech of sorts asking for donations. It was quite plain and boring as compared to the Matrix show.

It was therefore no surprise when Matrix was pronounced winner however there was no prize because both teams had cheated and the CEO was really angry and lectured them on the importance of integrity. When got to to firing time, Regina brought Deox and Blessing into the room thinking that Blessing would support her and they could oust Deox on the grounds that he was the one advising her to concentrate solely on making money.
Deox of course defended himself quite well, no surprise, the man is a lawyer. When Blessing was asked whose fault it was that they lost, she pointed a finger at Regina because it was her idea to do the monologue and they had lost due to the creative aspect or lack thereof in their performance. At this point, nothing Regina could say would help so she was fired. No surprise there.

On to Episode 13, the task was for Jagal Pharma, makers of Tetmol soap. The contestants were to use their personalities as well as marketing skills to convince the already authorised distributors to purchase larger quantities than they usually did. I think the show's producers specifically organised to have the most difficult distributors because they gave both teams such a hard time.

At one point, Kathleen was so aggravated by one of them that you would think she was about to slap him. She was so rude to him in the way she spoke and her body language that everyone was shocked. Blessing on the other hand, tried to endear herself to her tribesmen, the Ibo whereas Tunde resorted to his local dialect to try to convince one of the female distributors.

At one point, Zulu corp closed a deal with one gentleman only for Matrix corp to convince him to cancel that deal and make one with them. Deox was not amused that Matrix had "stolen" their client. It was later ruled that it was completely legal and that the client had the right to change his mind.

In spite of their "stolen" client, Zulu corp was declared winner of the task for two reasons; they had better customer care in their tent and they also made the most sales. In the boardroom, the three remaining members of Matrix had to face the CEO. Isaac, when asked who was responsible for their loss said it was Kathleen. He blamed their loss on her aggressive character, short temper and poor customer care. He said she always treated people badly and in this case, their clients.

He also pointed out that on top of this, she had made the least sales in the group and when Eunice was asked if she agreed with Isaac, she hesitated but she finally said she did. Without further adieu, Kathleen was fired. Kathleen was given very little chance to defend herself, understandably because i believe the CEO had been told of her behaviour on the day and this together with the fact that she had made the least sales made her the obvious choice for firing.

I sincerely pray that the next Episode will be interesting because i can't doze my way through it and then write a review. If you're still reading this, I hope you didn't doze through it, and if you did, i forgive you, i understand.....