Esteban de Dorantes: The African slave who defied all odds to become a diplomat and linguist, by Gift Luckson The story of Esteban de Dorantes (also known as Estevanico, Mustafa Azemmouri, or Esteban the Moor) is one of the most incredible, cinematic, and overlooked survival stories in human history. Enslavement ​Enslaved as a young man, he ended up becoming the first African to cross the North American continent, a brilliant multilingual diplomat, a revered healer, and an explorer whose final journey inspired the European search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. ​From...