African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Geoffrey Girard, Thomas Lockley

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

Geoffrey Girard, Thomas Lockley

480 pages paperback 2019

14 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Warrior. Samurai. Legend. When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world. Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to India a...

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