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 with Gary Furlong (Narrator)

10 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Warrior. Samurai. Legend.The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traveled much...

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informative 88%
adventurous 70%
inspiring 11%
challenging 5%
dark 5%
hopeful 5%
reflective 5%
tense 5%

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medium 61%
slow 38%

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