Lefa Afrika

Lefa Afrika is an honorary research affiliate at the Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS), University of Cape Town. He is a media practitioner with 20 years experience in the television industry. He has held managerial positions at Multichoice Africa and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). He is currently the managing director of Afriprime, a television content distribution company based in Johannesburg. His academic background includes MA (Wits), MA (Leeds), EMBA (UCA Nice), and PhD (UCT).

Recent publications:

Afrika, L. G. (2021). 90 Plein Street and the ANC’s 2017 Nasrec Conference – Educational Entertainment Television or State Capture Conspiracy? Critical Arts, 35(2), 1–15.

Afrika, L. G. (2024). Text, Context, Intertext: Reading Zone 14 as Resistance Television in Postapartheid South Africa. Intertexts 28 (1):25-48.

Afrika, L. G. (to be published in 2026). Television and Peacebuilding: The case of CCV-TV during the period of political transition in South Africa, in 50 Years of Television in South Africa. Palgrave McMillan.