Imani

Tribe(s): Manumalo, Sa'ula
Finish: 2nd Runner-Up/24
Days Lasted: 39

Imani is a contestant from *Survivor: Island of Secrets*.

## Survivor: Island of Secrets

For living in Georgia at the time of filming, Imani was placed on the orange Manumalo tribe along with other castaways from the southern states of the United States. They were joined by *David vs. Goliath* veteran Christian, whom Wes and Imani wanted to target straight away. After losing the first immunity challenge, Imani and Wes tried to garner the votes against Christian but they were unsuccessful and Wes was eliminated first. Now on the outs of the tribe, Imani began working with Cynthia who was ostracised from her original alliance. When Manumalo lost again, Imani and Cynthia voted for Christian but Cynthia was voted out.

After losing her two closest allies, Imani made it to the tribe dissolve where she was chosen by Micah to join the green Sa'ula tribe. Despite never working with each other on Manumalo, Imani and Shannon made a majority SALT Alliance with the original Sa'ula and Ta'alo castaways. At the tribes first loss, this alliance split the votes between Laumei castaways Jodie and Rahul. When neither of them played an advantage, Rahul was voted at the revote. After losing the following immunity challenge, Imani and her group voted out Jodie in order to continue to eliminate the original Laumei castaways. At the first merged tribal council on Day 22, Imani thought this alliance from Sa'ula would vote together to eliminate Harmony. However, Imani was blindsided when the tribe split the votes between her and Shannon, with Shannon being eliminated at the revote.

Imani and Micah then noticed they were both considered expendable numbers and not allies, so they decided to work with the Laumei Alliance. This new alliance of five had the numbers and they blindsided Sneha. The alliance planned on going after Heather next, but a null vote occurred when Doug, Heather and Joshua negated every vote with their idols. At the revote, Imani's alliance retained power when Harmony used her advantage to cast the sole vote in order to eliminate Declan. The tribe then made the unanimous decision to eliminate J'Tia. On Day 28, Imani was given the opportunity to visit the Island of Secrets but was unsuccessful in obtaining an advantage. At the following vote, Imani and Micah decided to keep their options open and worked against Laumei in order to get rid of Joshua.

The two rival alliances were equal in numbers at the Final Eight, but Imani was worried because the power wasn't in her hands. At tribal council, she flipped on her alliance in order to eliminate her closest ally Micah. Over the next two votes, Imani continued flipping between the Laumei Alliance and the combined Sa'ula and Ta'alo Alliance in order to eliminate Doug and Harmony. During this time, Imani also made a Final Three pact with Danni and Heather. At the Final Five, the alliance of girls and Elias were originally going after outsider Anthony. However, Danni and Imani convinced Heather to eliminate Elias because he was the bigger threat for winning five individual immunity challenges.

After Imani won the final individual immunity challenge, it appeared that the girls would honour their pact in order to eliminate Anthony. However, Danni and Imani were concerned with Heather's extensive resume because she won three advantages on the Island of Secrets. They believed that Anthony would only receive the votes of the original Laumei castaways, so Danni and Imani voted with him to make Heather final member of the jury. At the Final Tribal Council, Imani was praised for making it to the end despite being ostracised from her tribe at the very beginning of the game. However, she was criticised for not taking control of the game and was instead perceived as floating between two alliances. In the end, Imani became the Second Runner-Up after only receiving one jury vote of ten from Micah.

## Trivia

* Imani was the highest ranking member of the original Manumalo tribe.