This Mali doctor and engineer lecturing Henry about his superior culture is hilarious when you compare the sand mosque with shit like St. Barbara Cathedral. The Mali empire was Zulu level shit. Let's just tell it like it is.
Copium explanation: the black guy can just be an arrogant asshole, talking like that, which you won't see from screenshots without context.
My real opinion is that the subtitles (together with some supposed AI artifacts in the ornaments on his clothes, but those could be video compression artifacts) are what's making me think that the whole thing
might be fake because they seem too cringe for Warhorse, much more so than just including a token black guy. Right now I'm leaning towards the guy being real but the subtitles being fake, let's see how naive I was when it releases.
As always the answer is to not preorder anything and just wait till you know what you're buying. It really is so simple.