
Yasuke
Yasuke is Japan’s first black samurai. He was brought to Japan in 1579 during the nanban trade with the Portuguese by an Italian missionary. *He essentially was captured as a slave and brought to Japan for mission trips. The origins are Yasuke are still unknown. We are not sure if he is from Sudan from the Dinka tribe, or from Mozambique from the Yao tribe, or Ethiopian.
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner was the first African American painter to be famous around the world. He became interested in painting after seeing a painter in a park when he was twelve. Tanner studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Houston wrote about where African American people came from, to show that Africa has an amazing history. There was a myth at the time, which said that African people had no important history of their own, so Houston wanted to show this was wrong.
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua was born in Eastern Nigeria to a family from the Igbo tribe. Chinua is most famous for his first novel Things Fall Apart which was published in 1958. It tells the story of a Nigerian Igbo village and their life before Britain colonised Nigeria.
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