Samburu

**Highest Placing Member**: Maria (Runner-Up/24)

Samburu was a tribe from Survivor: Africa.

Samburu started as one of the most dysfunctional tribes in *Survivor* history due to the abundance of boisterous personalities. The chaos only continued through the tribe switch, where the majority alliance turned on each other and one player willingly gave up their idol before being eliminated one day before the merge. Their tribe colour was red.

## Tribe History

The red Samburu tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Africa*. Samburu was initially a very dysfunctional tribe because various boisterous personalities, namely Angelo, Maria, Victoria and Yvie, wanted to assert themselves as the leader. Angelo, Maria and Yvie created a majority alliance with Emily, Ray, Ryan and Sarah with the intention of taking out Victoria, who believed she was best fit to lead the tribe because of her military background. When Samburu lost the first immunity challenge on Day 3, this alliance had the numbers to eliminate Victoria. With Victoria now gone, Angelo tried to assign roles within the tribe which greatly annoyed Yvie. This constant arguing only continued to divide the tribe, where Angelo, Ryan and Sarah flipped on Yvie when Samburu lost again on Day 8.

    Angelo thought he was in the strongest position on Samburu because he had flipped between the two alliances over the course of the first week of the game. However, Angelo was also felt threatened by his closest allies Ryan and Sarah who shared this feat with him. His plans to throw the pair under the bus were soon exposed, so Ryan and Sarah used their relationships to turn the majority of Samburu against Angelo when they lost again on Day 10. On Day 12, both Boran and Samburu were told they would be voting someone out as part of a Double Tribal Council. With Angelo and Yvie now gone, the anti-Victoria alliance that was established earlier in the game now only consisted of Emily, Maria and Ray. After the chaos of the first 12 days, Samburu's fourth tribal council was relatively straightforward because the majority eliminated Ray.

At the tribe switch, Emily, Lance, Ryan and Sarah remained on Samburu whilst being joined by Benji, Fenella, Heath, Sharn and Shonee from the original Boran tribe. The majority held by the original Boran castaways only grew when Sharn found the Samburu Hidden Immunity Idol, though she only shared this information with Benji whom she considered her closest ally. After losing their first immunity challenge together, the original Boran players agreed to target Sarah. However, Benji wanted to continue splitting up strong pairs. At tribal council, the original Samburu players followed Benji's plan to blindside Fenella whilst he and Sharn switched their votes to Shonee. This truce was short-lived because the original Boran players remained united to eliminate Lance and Emily when the tribe lost on Days 16 and 20 respectively.

With the numbers dwindling towards the merge and currently in a majority position on Samburu, Heath decided to establish himself as an individual player. Despite now playing on opposite tribes, Heath and his original ally David communicated during challenges. At the Day 22 immunity challenge, Heath secretly passed his idol to David. However, Heath was unaware that David then shared this information with his closest allies Benji and Sharn. When Samburu lost again on Day 24, Heath was under the impression that his alliance would be voting for Sarah. Benji realised that Heath was vulnerable without his idol and managed to flip the entire tribe to blindside Heath at tribal council. On Day 25, Samburu was dissolved when the two tribes merged.