vote. At the Final Tribal Council, Kim was praised for surviving the game but was accused of riding the coattails of Lex, Ethan, and Big Tom. Ethan was praised for his likeability and integrity, and the jury voted Ethan the Sole Survivor in a 5–2 vote. {| class="wikitable nowrap" style="margin:auto; text-align:center" |+Challenge winners and eliminations by episode ! scope="col" colspan="3"|Episode ! scope="col" colspan="2"|Challenge winner(s) ! colspan="2" |Eliminated |- ! scope="col"|No. ! scope="col"|Title ! scope="col"|Original air date ! scope="col"|Reward ! scope="col"|Immunity !Tribe !Player |- !1 |align="left"|"Question of Trust" |align="left"|October 11, 2001 | colspan=2 | |Diane |- !2 |align="left"|"Who's Zooming Whom?" |align="left"|October 18, 2001 | | | |Jessie |- !3 |align="left"|"The Gods Are Angry" |align="left"|October 25, 2001 | | | |Carl |- !4 |align="left"|"The Young and Untrusted" |align="left"|November 1, 2001 | | | |Linda |- !5 |align="left"|"The Twist" |align="left"|November 8, 2001 | | | |Silas |- !6 |align="left"|"I'd Never Do It To You" |align="left"|November 15, 2001 | | | |Lindsey |- !7 |align="left"|"Will There Be a Feast Tonight?" |align="left"|November 22, 2001 ||Teresa | |Clarence |- !8 |align="left"|"The First 21 Days" |align="left"|November 29, 2001 | colspan="4" align="center" |Recap Episode|- !9 |align="left"|"Smoking Out the Snake" |align="left"|December 6, 2001 |Ethan[Lex] |Ethan | rowspan="7" |Kelly |- !10 |align="left"|"Dinner, Movie and a Betrayal" |align="left"|December 13, 2001 |Brandon,Frank |Lex |Brandon |- !11 |align="left"|"We Are Family" |align="left"|December 20, 2001 | |Lex |Frank |- !12 |align="left"|"The Big Adventure" |align="left"|December 27, 2001 |Lex[Tom] |Tom |Kim P. |- !13 |align="left"|"Truth Be Told" |align="left"|January 3, 2002 |Lex |Lex |Teresa |- ! rowspan="2"|14 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|"The Final Four: No Regrets" | rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;" |January 10, 2002 |rowspan=2 |Kim J. |Tom |- |Kim J. |Lex |- !15 | style="text-align:left;" |"The Reunion" | colspan="4" bgcolor="darkgray" | |}In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.Episodes Voting history Notes ReceptionSurvivor: Africa received much more criticism than the two previous seasons, primarily for the contestants' tough living conditions during filming. Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the ninth-worst season of the series, saying aside from "Some great challenges, not that much else was great". Tom Santilli of Examiner.com ranked it 26th, saying following Borneo and Australian Outback, "it was a complete dud at the time", while noting winner Ethan Zohn "was just so-so and not