a tall African man arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior, and is the subject of two films being produced by Hollywood.

However, the decision to include Yasuke, a samurai of African origin who entered Japan enslaved by the Portuguese and served under the Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga, has divided the gaming community.

One of the most fascinating and mysterious is Yasuke, a man from Africa who appears to have become a samurai in the 16th century. Now, Yasuke appears as a character in Assassin’s Creed Shadows ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Craig Shreve likes to write about unknown and lost histories. His new novel, The African Samurai, fictionalizes the incredible ...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has raised $523 million (¥81.3 billion) in its inaugural issue of a Samurai bond ...