REBLOGGED from another author! This post shares information about Yasuke, a samurai of black African origin who worked for Japanese warlord, Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. Wow. Just wow! #HistoryGeek
6 Little-Known Facts About Yasuke, the All-Powerful Black Samurai of Feudal Japan
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Monique L. Desir was born and raised in Florida. She's an educator who hasn’t quite figured out how to escape the Sunshine State and is surviving and thriving within its alligator-infested clutches with her husband and three sons. The daughter of West Indian parents (Haitian father, Jamaican mother), she loves learning about different cultures, languages and people. She binge-watches forensic television shows and Soca dances until she glows! Why? So she can have seconds on cake! Her stories have been published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, Colorism Essays and Poems anthology Volume 2, and Rivière Blanche's 2019 Dimension Uchronie short story anthology, and forthcoming in The Dread Machine. Find her on Twitter @moniquedesir. View all posts by Monique Desir
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