Top Actor Africa Wrap Up

It may be a little too late but here at Sel&EL we don’t work on a time frame and that’s exactly why we only going to do a roundup of Top Actor Africa which aired their final episode on 24 May.

First things first the finale consisted of the deserving top 3, Kenyan Alex and fellow South Africans Jesse and Shamilla. In the first episode we were introduced to the contestants. From South Africa they were:

• ·         Jesse Suntele
• ·         Shamilla Miller
• ·         Ferrell Drew
• ·         Marylyn Sekgapane
• ·         Hendrik Lombard
• ·         Sabelo Sibeko
• ·         Simhle Plaatjies

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From Nigeria were

• ·         Tobechi Nneji
• ·         Ifeanyi Dike
• ·         Uriel Chukwu

Kenya had only 2 representatives:

• ·         Lorreine Gakuo
• ·         Alexander Khainga

From the first episode we made a judgement that Simhle was the one to watch out for and that the weakling was between Hendrik, Marylyn and Alex but in a strange turn of events Alex showed a hunger and amazing growth which saw him claim a spot in the top 3. Marylyn had a fair run and we have hope that we might see her again on South African TV screens. Hendrik was just horrible; though he had a certain drive to him he still has a lot to learn. Simhle just plain disappointed us coz we strongly believed that she would be amongst the top ranking contestants but she was the first casualty of elimination after she failed to portray a Xhosa woman which is strange.

Favourites from the first episode obviously were Shamilla who impressed in the first challenge, Tobechi who had a striking look of a beautiful and empowered woman and lorreine was amongst the first glance favourites though she was called out for not being present in the competition.

The show continued and we saw that Alex is a very involved and interested contestant and then he entered our good books. Sabelo dropped the ball along the way with his arrogant attitude which shadowed his potential. Ferrell was just boring; the guy has potential to be an actor but lacks variety. Who we were scared of from the jump is Ifeanyi who has starred in major Nigerian productions like Desperate Housewives: Africa.