Samburu

Samburu was one of the two competing tribes in Survivor: Africa. Their tribe color is red.

Original
The following castaways comprised the original Samburu tribe since Day 1-12:
 * Franklin Garrison, a telephone technician from Odessa, New York
 * Silas Gaither, a bartender from Germantown, Tennessee
 * Lindsey Richter, an advertising executive from Portland, Oregon
 * Linda Spencer, a career counselor from Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * Kimberly Powers, a freelance marketer from Bridgewater, New Jersey
 * Teresa Cooper, a flight attendant from Jackson, Georgia
 * Carl Bilancione, a dentist from Winterpark, Florida
 * Brandon Quinton, a bartender from Dallas, Texas

Post-Tribe swap
These castaways became the Samburu tribe from Days 13-20:
 * Kim Powers
 * Brandon Quinton
 * Lindsey Richter
 * Tom Buchanan
 * Kelly Goldsmith
 * Lex van den Berghe

Days 1-6
The Samburu tribe started early on with two conflicting alliances. The elders (Linda, Teresa, Carl and Frank) aligned themselves because of urgent necessity, for they accused the younger members (Silas, Kim P., Brandon and Lindsey) of slacking at camp. The younger members even made friendship necklaces for each other and preparing food only for themselves, brewing more tension between the two voting blocs. Adding insult to injury, all of their clay pots and jars (used for cooking and collecting water) became cracked and unusable. Despite the disunity and mishaps, the tribe rallied on to win the first three challenges.

Days 7-12
Their apparent lack of unity eventually hurt them when the rival tribe Boran won an important Reward Challenge in Day 7, where the gold tribe won a potable water dispenser good enough until the merger. The lack of clean water started to wear out the tribe's momentum, most notably Lindsey, who complained that her body had shut down, making her a target for the elder alliance. Their bad state then carried on to the Day 8 Immunity Challenge, where Boran won their first Immunity Challenge, thus sending Samburu to their first Tribal Council.

During their first Tribal Council, the younger alliance pointed out that Carl does not need to win the game because of his success as a dentist (and even claimed of owning several luxury cars), while Lindsey was deemed by the elders' alliance for being weak in challenges and rude to the older members. Their first Tribal Council resulted to a 4-4 tie between Carl and Lindsey. Despite a revote, results were left unchanged. As per Survivor rules, previous votes from past Tribals will be added to the count and whoever has more votes will be sent home, but since it was Samburu's first visit to Tribal, a quiz-type tiebreaker challenge about camp life took place. After a series of wrong answers from both parties, Carl answered incorrectly, while Lindsey's was right, resulting to the latter's demise. This shifted the voting power to the younger alliance, much to the elders' chagrin. Despite the younger alliance's power-tripping, there was a chink in the younger alliance's armor - the four votes that Lindsey received at their first Tribal Council. This would make her vulnerable in future votes.

After losing their second successive Immunity Challenge, the younger members made a plea to the older members to continue on voting for Lindsey to at least keep the other members from having votes against them should they will also end up in a deadlock in future Tribals. But knowing that the young ones' audacious begging will not benefit them at all, the elders did not follow the younger alliance's plea when they distributed all three of their votes to Silas as a failsafe (should the elders be will be totally wiped out, the younger alliance will still be vulnerable in future Tribal Councils since two of them already have votes against them should a deadlock will again come into place). But despite thowing a wrench in the younger alliance's future plans, one of the elders again took the fall as Linda was sent home by the majority alliance.

Days 13-20
After Linda's departure, the younger members were about to celebrate their seemingly apparent victory over the elders. But when a strange Tree Mail asked them to send three of their members, things started to turn on its head. Upon reading the mail, the younger alliance sent their alliance leader Silas and the two remaining Samburu elders (Frank and Teresa) with much hesitation. When they met host Jeff Probst, together with Boran's representatives Kelly, Tom and Lex, everyone were in total shock whe the host asked them to surrender their buffs in exchange for new, differently colored ones, signalling a tribe switch. Kelly, Tom and Lex became the new members of Samburu while the other three were switched to Boran.

Upon reaching their new camp, the three new members got displeased of how cluttered and disorganized their new camp was. Tom and Lex complained about how murky their water hole was and tried to clean it (for it was their usual camp chore back at Boran), while Kelly was sneaking around camp, trying to unearth which among their new tribemates has votes. After winning the next Immunity Challenge (which resulted to Silas' subsequent elimination in Boran, thanks to Teresa and Frank, and much to Brandon, Kim P. and Lindsey's shock), the remnants of the younger alliance started to scramble of what to do next, even regretting about their poor treatment towards the older members.

While being informed about the mechanics of the next Reward Challenge, Boran's Kim J. waved an "L" hand signal to Kelly, signaling that Lindsey has votes (again in large part to Teresa and Frank's continuing vendetta against the younger members for treating them poorly). Kim P. saw the incident, and immediately told Lindsey about it. After Boran won Immunity, Kelly caught Kim P., Brandon and Lindsey talking about Lindsey's past votes, thus affirming Kim J.'s information.

The three then again scrambled to save themselves from the upcoming vote, with Brandon even begging to the ex-Borans to vote for him to save Lindsey (even asking Kim P. and Lindsey to vote him as well to keep them in the competition). With the the dilemma left unsolved, the vote ended up in a 3-3 split vote divided between old tribe lines. Lindsey's fears became a reality when the re-vote did not help her favor, because she knew her four previous votes will be taken into account once again (since the person they voted for, Big Tom, or even Lex and Kelly did not have votes against them). Lindsey happily accepted her elimination. This caused a 6-4 voting advantage for the original Boran members when the merger happens.

In Day 20, the two competing tribes were merged into the Moto Maji tribe, and moved to Boran's old camp for the rest of the game.

Trivia

 * Samburu is the first red tribe is Survivor history.
 * Samburu's members were voted off in fours. Carl, Linda, Silas and Lindsey were voted off in four successive Tribal Councils. Two episodes later, Brandon, Frank, Kim P. and Teresa were systematically eliminated.