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"I, Hasan the child of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of the barber and baptized at the hand of the pope, I'm today named the African-American, but I'm not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Persia. I'm also known as the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no nation, from no town, no group. I'm the child of the street, my nation may be the caravan, my entire life the absolute most sudden of voyages."Therefore wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this fictional autobiography of the well-known geographer, adventurer, and student Hasan al-Wazzan, who had been born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and required him towards the town of Fez, in Northern Africa.