Dufourea africana is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.

The type specimen was collected in 1949 by the Dutch mycologist Rudolf Arnold Maas Geesteranus from the Tinderer Forest Reserve in Kisumu-Londiani (Kenya) at an elevation of 3,200 m (10,500 ft); there, it was found growing on an isolated and sun-exposed Podocarpus milanjianus.

[1] Patrik Frödén and colleagues transferred the taxon to the genus Dufourea in 2013, following a molecular phylogenetics-led reorganisation of the Teloschistaceae.

The thallus surface has regions of soralia that are both laminal and marginal, and makes orange-coloured soredia; apothecia (fruiting bodies) have not been observed to occur in this species.

[5] It occurs on the trunks of trees, particularly wayside and isolated ones, in open woodland and shrubland at elevations from 2,500 to 3,000 metres (8,200 to 9,800 ft).