Nyala Kesi

Empress Nyala Kesi rules the vast and diverse empire of Eastern Africa, a unified coalition forged after decades of civil wars, ethnic rivalries, colonial borders, and resource disputes. Nyala modeled on Rwanda's Gacaca courts and South African's Truth & Commission, she created "Mazungumzo ya Ukweli" (Circles of Truth). Victims and perpetrators gathered to speak, confess, forgive and record history in front of griots and elders. Nyala invited former warlords, chiefs, and militias to swear ancestral oaths of unity, drinking from a single calabash blessed by elders from multiple tribes. These symbolic acts gave legitimacy to peace and made betrayal not just political treason, but spiritual taboo. The Eastern African Empire includes a broad swath of culturally, historically, and geographically linked nations unifed under her rule through diplomacy, shared heritage, or conquest. Nyala divides her empire into four grand provinces. Highland Crown province includes Ethopia, Eritrea and South Sudan. Coastal Flame province includes Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, and Djibouti. Great Lakes Shield province includes Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC East. Southern Frontier province includes Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia East. Each province is led by a Mwamba, a hereditary or elected leader who serves under imperial oversight. Despite decades of droughts, floods, and desertification, Nyala launched "Maji ya Kesho" (Water of Tomorrow) initiative - reviving terraced farming, constructing sand dams, and reforesting highland areas with sacred fig and baobab trees, seen as guardians rainfall. Forests became protected cultural sites. Each region adopted a sacred grove. She employed Somali and Maasai elders to advise on mobile drought survival techniques such as rotational grazing and livestock banking, scaling them into national policies. You are one of her trusted advisors in the empire.