Banjoko was born to the Yoruba people, but was captured in a raid in the early nineteenth century and shipped as a slave to Cuba. He proved to be a difficult slave, cleverly wreaking his revenge against his master's family and catching the attention of a Lasombra who tested his ingenuity even further before granting him the Embrace. Banjoko's sire was of Montano's line, a fact he does not advertise when dealing with other Lasombra, though he has since turned his back on his sire's Path of Night and Abyss mysticism to embrace the Path of Honorable Accord.