Nobody's great-great-great grandparents were Nigerian because there was no such country when they lived. And these tests can't actually tell you exactly where your ancestors lived, what they can tell you is that your DNA is similar to the DNA of people living in particular regions today (that they have tested and have access to in their databases)
The real truth about all these DNA ancestry sites is they have not even come close to the database needed to even be confident about the absolute lies they spew. It's been well documented and you can do a simple search and find out yourselves. They mostly just spit out bogus info to make people feel good.
I talked about this with my brother, who was wondering why we had so much Greek and Turkish in us when we are both 100% Italian on all sides. 1,000 years ago, "Italy" didn't exist. 2,000 years ago, "Greek" and "Italian" were both Roman. Any earlier than that, and we would have been called three-quarters Sabine and one-quarter Latin. The names we use depend on political boundaries, which shift with the wind sometimes.
@@historyonthego Yep ... my brother's wife's family came to the US in two groups. One was registered as Polish in the immigration records. The other was registered as Ukrainian. The village hadn't moved. The border moved OVER the village. What they are depended on when you asked!
Well technically Greeks existed long before Romans or Italy. The Italian peninsula was colonized by the Greeks but there were indigenous people living there like the Latins. Then the City State of Rome was established and well the Romans were very good at conquering other nations.
People need to learn difference between Race, Nationality and Ethnicity.. I can’t tell how many times people asked me. What is your nationality, I say Canadian. They get all confused. They are trying to ask what my ethnicity is, but they confuse it with nationality.
Hah! That's like one time a white co-worker from England was talking about a friend of hers who was getting married to an Australian. I immediately asked her if he is Aborigines. She looked at me like, "are you serious?" I was. You see, we are in NY and I do not know anyone from Australia. So, in my mind when you say someone is Australian, I do not see a white person. I take a few seconds to process this kind of information before speaking now. Don't get me started with South Africa. Hmm, I wonder what people who have never been to the US think of when they hear someone is American.
Doreen Thompson Funny, we can have preconceived idea based on our knowledge. When I travel to North Africa years back a a lot of Tunisians was asking me and my friends where we came from. We told them England. But they kept pushing us for more. Most of my friend were either Jamaica born and British born Jamaicans so in the end we told the people we came from Jamaica. I was the only British born from St Vincent and the Grenadines. I don't know if they has any idea black peoples lived in England . Funny some people in America surprised when they meet a black British person. I was in Philly years back and some girls in Wendy food Resturant was going crazy when I spoke lol.
@@historyonthego Hey. Thanks for the response. I think that experience was/is funny too. I tell it all the time. Also, I too am Jamaican. When I travel and people ask me where I'm from, depending on the mood I'm in, I'll say NY or USA or I live in NY but I'm from Jamaica. I have ancestors from so many different parts of the globe, me caan badda with the DNA. What is the point? Just live good with people and respect. A so me see it.
Thank you, please say this for those all the way on the back. I keep saying this. Migration, trades, African people have been travelling for centuries before colonization. Some people are to concern about the color of their skin. Some one skin color doesnt prove anything. your DNA will tell you a lot.
@@querida1809 I love reading ancient history, but in doing so I realized there was significant movement across continents with trading, warring, defending boarders from intruders. Afrikans allowed boarding peoples to live without incident so there was mixing and marriages until the intrugers' got greedy which precipitated war. They had boats so they were not confined to the continent itself. We are talking very ancient history, does not account for recent stuff. Amazing!
Oh my God when you said (with a British Accent) that your Nigerian percentage was higher than the guy born in Nigeria I laughed for a whole minute 😂😂😂😂😂
I think Ghengis Khan had more fluid than most, 16 million men carry his genetic markers, a large number of Mongolians are descended from him. He had a LOT of kids!
There was less hybridization before the ice age cataclysm, but afterwards Cro-magnon dna spread out across the world, perhaps not coincidentally around the same time as agriculture, mono/megalithic structures, animal domestication, and the study of the stars (Zoroastrianism)
You need to ask for your haplo type. I guarantee you it will take you straight to israel. You are NOT African you are Hebrew. E1b1a is specific. Africans carry E1b1b. He is misleading you
@@extracool3889, All humans originated in Africa. We moved upwards and outwards and 🧭 through what is now Israel, the middle east, and off the continent of Africa. We separated and went our own ways, discovering new lands, sprouting new cultures and mutating to become different "races". Are you implying that the OP is mistaken in believing he is sub-Saharan?
@@stephanieyee9784 i do not follow the traditional narrative that all humans originated in Africa. But let is suppose that your narrative is correct does it follow therefore that we should all gather tigether and sing kombyah? You will notice that thise who are at a major disadvantage are the blacks in America and that they are being killed disproportionately by the pigs in Amerikkka. But lets put that aside for a moment. Please read Deuteronomy 28 before we embark on a meaningful debate...please
The concepts of Nigeria, Ghana, etc... are recent creations when the French and British divided that area. Africans who lived there before are more connected to ethnic kinship.
Watched an episode of an ancestry programme on British TV some years ago that featured a white female campaigner for English ethnic rights. She sounded rather bigoted and assumed she was descended from Anglo-Saxon tribes or Northern European Vikings. Her DNA test turned out she was predominantly Romany Gypsy! The very people she looked down upon and sought to distinguish herself from! 😊
Is it the Channel 4 programme where they even tested Thatcher's daughter? If it's the one, the lady you are talking about was going to sue the channel for implying she is not 100% English. It was a sight to behold as they revealed her ancestry. Most of the people had Mongolian blood. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_English
Yes I saw that programme and it was fascinating. She fervently believed that she was an Anglo saxon and got really angry at her gypsy DNA results . There have been quite a few prejudice white folk in the American South but ironically lots of them also have much African DNA .
Excellent, Well Done!!, I am from across the pond in the US. Five years ago I had my first DNA testing done by the National Geographic Genographic Project. My results' tract to Nigeria as well, the Yoruba... the second round identified 24% other results including the UK, Eurasia and Native American tribes. I too, experienced a similar sense of shock, a normal response to centuries of conditioning. Africans from across the diaspora have been similarly traumatized by slavery and colonization. To suddenly for the first time be awakened from the Matrix can be disorienting, like finding out you were adopted. So much of how we think about ourselves is filtered through the lens of White culture. DNA results can offer an opportunity to see our selves from a scientific perspective independent of cultural story lines that may no longer be relevant. They can now, instead, serve as a point to a more expansive journey.
I've subscribed. It is wonderful to hear a learned person that understands humanity's history and that knows the difference between ethnicity and nationality.☺👍
Yes that's what I have said.. I wars of movement of people for environmental reasons, Was cause mass movements. Inter marrying is big factor. Slavery is a factor also.
Hey 👋🏽 L. Miller I always notice your supportive comments on the Hu Band from Mongolia 🇲🇳 Reactions. The outcome and the accuracy of DNA results are interesting to me. I’m Indigenous Native North American from Northern California. 🙋🏻♀️
Beautiful video. Best explanation ever. People need to understand that these ethnicities are not subject to one country or political area but based on population migrations of people over time and places. The more people get tested the more precise will be the results. You may find over time that you may get updated results that may look different, just remember your DNA doesn't change just how the data will improve how we get to know the past. I look forward to seeing your videos.
The reason that Nigerian is surprised by the DNA result is simply because most Nigerians like many other Africans are quite ethnocentric. So, they are shoked to find out that their lineage included people of other tribes that's even outside their country.
@@davidjessop2279 It's not Racism as they are not two different races. And they are not being racist at all just because they don't want to mix their blood, but I don't expect you to know anything about what racism is. Lol
Honestly i am quite scare african rasism about whites and othets africans. And I am estonian and this is word wonder that we have preserve our own language.
The need to believe we're 100% this or that is driven by a mostly emotional desire for a sense of homogenous belonging and 'solid' personal identity ; reality doesn't care about our emotions🌍
Let's not forget you have some African men who have Chinese paternal ancestry and this is way before colonization of the European nations into Africa so this goes to prove that Africa and China was trading well before even the Arab slave trade
The first premier of British Columbia, Canada, James Douglas, was born in what is now Guyana to a Scottish father and a mixed Scottish-African mother. His wife was mixed Cree and Scottish, so his children had African, European and Cree ancestry.
Finally a person of African descent who gets it! Using Jamaica as an example of Nationality was good because a lot of people may still not be receptive to the idea of African people enslaving other African people or of them moving around and intermarriage between ethnic groups. Not all borders in the past would have been "hard" borders and nomadic people move where they Need to. I am mixed: mostly English, Welsh, Irish and east Asian but also show 1+% of Nigerian DNA. As I'm the only one of my family paternal and maternal to show it, (yes we're full siblings), I think it must be a relic from my deep ancestry. I liken DNA mixes to a tossed salad. We chop up the ingredients, mix them in one big bowl then serve it into smaller portions. Everyone gets the same salad but different amounts of its ingredients. PS: Cymru Am Byth! 🏴 ☮❤🦘🇦🇺
I love your analogy : ) Tip: Try a few drops of sesame oil in your sallad next time. Another is a slice of cucumber in gin and tonic instead of sitrus.
My sister has a small % of Nigerian dna whilst I'm (very boringly) 100% European, so I think you're right about the ancient DNA. We used different brand tests by the way
"We cannot mix DNA with politics and nationalism" THANK YOU OMG !!!!!!! NATIONALISM IN AFRICAN MADE THEM FORGET THAT OUR ANCESTORS OCCUPIED REGIONS WHERE THEY MIXED WITH OTHER CLANS TOO ... OMG
Exactly we have to take into consideration, test updates lol, pre & post colonial kingdoms, migration, intermarriage, neo colonial name changes, etc its more than meets the eye and its multi hypothesis when you consider all that can pop up on your test. Im from north america and my test looks similar to yours, great video!
Very true. I met a man who boasted that he came from a very old family that went right back to King Edward 1. I told him my family went right back to Adam and Eve! Actually we all descended from Adam and Eve, so we are all members of the same family!
@@funquay2219 Awww, that's cute. (I hope you're kidding.) According to Genesis, we all come from Adam and Eve, who had three sons. Think about that...take all the time you need. 😁
@@rockradstone Hi Rick. I took about 30 seconds to find the answer to your question. Genesis chapter 5 verse 4 reads "After he became the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Hope that helps you. Best regards.
I remember when Henry Louis Gates did his DNA on his TV show. His ancestry included Ireland to a 7th century king. One third of Ireland today can trace ancestry to this king because he had so many kids from all his wives. It was interesting because both his parents were black and he assumed African ancestry.
I think he means African black people. AA in general have quite a bit of European ancestry because many of us have formerly enslaved ancestors and there was a lot of racial mixing
@@SE-gs6gd Yeah my sister has 2% Iberian (Spain) ancestry even though my mother and father have no immediate ancestry in the last eight generations. My friend has 1.7% Neanderthal DNA, meaning her homo sapiens ancestors interbred with Neanderthals.
@@christianlingurar7085 "I met this gorgeous girl yesterday. She told me she came from Northern Italy". "Genoa"? "Look I told you I only just met her".
And then there are those DNA results where they give identical twins two completely different results... I'm not sure the DNA ancestry industry is really all that concerned about accuracy.
My baby sister is a retired pathologist. She decided to test us all, and of 12, one of us had no Italian ancestry. The problem is our mother is 100% Italian. I too don't trust them.
Ancestry has changed my DNA results several times and calls them updates 😳 How do you go from less than 1% of an ethnicity to 24 %? They have been adding and taking away ethnicities. I really believe they are scamming everyone.
It wasn't always through slavery that intermarriage happened. Tribes would broker peace or marriage agreements and merge for safety and survival, then move apart when tribes grew large enough. A reason why genetic kin can be found in different regions in Africa. Natural and unnatural events caused these swings in populations.
It has been so interesting watching this presentation and reading the diverse comments. My two cents is that I describe myself as a Black African-American, which means to me that I was born in America and I am of African descent. This further means to me that I am a Black African who because of circumstances beyond my control was born in America. (I consider my personal designation as identifying my race, nationality, ethnicity, and culture). My DNA states that I am 94% West African (a mixture of 41% Nigerian and a lesser percentage Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Congo, Southern and Western Bantu People, Benin, Togo). You can say I am mixed (LOL).
One of the most balanced and informed vid I've seen on RUclips. I've had my DNA tested many years ago from National Geographic. Yep I originated from Africa!
@@timothykeith1367 My DNA is almost purely German and 99.8% European overall (per 23 and me). The 0.2% non European is 0.1 Native American and 0.1% Siberian.
Who is stopping them? Countries have already been changed from the European names. Africans need to come together and make decisions for the CONTINENT of Africa and stop blaming others for your problems
Why African should do that? Is it going to improve their lives? Is it going to make Africa a better place? Multiple languages, spoken for few people are a barrier to understanding among people. I speak two of three most spoken languages in the world and I'm proud of that. I've ancesters from 4 continents including Africa, I don't speak any African originated language in spite I'm mostly genetically African, it doesn't make native Africans better than me. The best and more intelligent behavior for all the people in the world is to be able to speak AT LEAST one of the most extended languages in the world , instead of trying to get isolated of the rest of the world using only local languages. It's stupid to Build walls instead of bridges.
I was born in St. Petersburg Russia same as my mother and father. My Dad's family were Jews from the Ukraine. My DNA results stated that my maternal DNA was most common in Armenia and my paternal was Ethiopia. Interesting.
Mankind is old and most people are mixed.(genetically mixed) That's how we move, survive and get genetically diversified and strong. That makes DNA exciting as we can imagine and appreciate the steps our many ancestors have endured. The lines on maps drawn by political powers do not represent where people ruled and lived or felt at home, nor do they define how we feel inside and we inherit strengths and talents from far away places of moving origins and it is good so. That seems to be part of the survival plan and fate. Great video! History when told truthfully, clears the mind of nonsense and let's us be better adults.
@@AAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD you need to change doctors then. Ot maybe you failing for that crap cause you need to justify some personal bias. Anyway there is one race: the human one acording to all science magazines and current medical publications.
@@AAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD And the Earth is flat as well? Race is a modern construct. We are all ONE species, Homo Sapiens. Any GP or doctor will NOT confirm we're any way shape or form genetically and biologically separated by "race". Humans have been moving and mixing for a good 200,000 years. DNA doesn't care about borders or your brainwashed notions.
I'm from the United States of America and my ancestors were brought here as slaves sometime between the 1600 and the 1800s. I recently had my DNA tested and found that I'm 42.7% Nigerian, 19.7% Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean, 2.2% Senegambian & Guinean. The remainder of my DNA is French & German, British & Irish, Native American, and Chinese & Southeast Asian. The most recent part of my ancestry is found in the Caribbean (Jamaica). Unfortunately, I have no way of knowing which tribes my family would have come from in Africa. We identify as African American or Black here in the U.S.
I uploaded my results to gedmatch easy step one step 2 you can do a "one to many comparison and look at a gang of names. When you come across any that look unusual to you make a note of the name and the gedmatch number. Since you came back mostly Nigerian look for Nigerian names. How will you know they are Nigerian? Nigerian names tend to start with A,O, or U also if the name is Igbo it may have the word "Chi" in it or you may see gb or kp in the name. If the name is Yoruba you may see Ade- or Akin- or -tunde or wale or wunmi. After and if you find a possible African name Google to verify it is African. Now you've found the name is African the next thing you want to do is try to fit out is your match African or just has an African name. Most Africans are not mixed with non-African ancestry. Whereas most of us AAs are. You want to go to where they allow you to do a comparison to see if your match is mixed or not go to the "EthioHelix" if your match is African they should not show any non-African results you can email them and ask if they or their parents are from Africa hopefully you get a response. I did everything I suggested and I found I think maybe 5 matches with no non-African admix all 5 were or are Nigerian. I one has a name from the Ibani Ijaw people of Nigeria. The rest are Igbo
Yeah, that's one of the reasons why races are a construct. They only have sociopolitical meaning, mostly in the US, but genetically they don't exist. That's why I think it's annoying when Americans try to push the concept onto us Europeans. We divide people differently here. In my country we unfortunately also have racism, but apart from neonazis and some radical leftists it's not based on race, but on stuff like ethnicity, appearance, and nationality. So the race concept doesn't even hold much meaning for racists.
Well, apparently NOT 100% human, with Neandertal, Denisovan, and at least one unknown other, haha! But you're right - we're all descended from survivors. At least they survived long enough to have kids.
Ethnicity also has to do with time. My Y DNA test initially came back saying my paternal line was from the coast of Normandy, which is true (8th GGF). A few years later it said I was Scandinavian, likely a product of Vikings invading Normandy and assimilating. Cousins in the UK are likely the product of the Norman Conquest in 1066. If they keep going they’ll say I’m Middle Eastern and eventually African. Human history is fraught with migration and conquest. My French Canadian ancestors bred with the Natives, a branch that practiced ritualized torture and cannibalism. My English Colonist ancestors committed biological warfare and genocide on those Native Americans. I am immensely proud of each branch of my genetic family tree and avoid judging their lives by today’s standards. All we can do is live a peaceful and civilized life and contribute to a better future.
Feeling proud? Is that evil still within you? All of this is about to come out. You start hearing that some of your ancestors ate black people or/and mummies tissues. Is this something you are proud of? I do give you credit for saying this... I just learned what your ancestors did to the world. All I can say is... It's evil! Nevertheless, we will not let this information die... the truth will be revealed.
Biological warfare seems unlikely, germs weren't understood until much later, and North American Indians had already had epidemics sweep through them up from the Spanish colonies to the South, before the English started to colonise the East Coast.
I also get the impression from various sources that as more people are profiled, the more information there is for geographical determination and that also means if there are regions with low numbers of DNA samples, then they are less likely to show up when some-one gets their own DNA tested, even if they have almost 100percent ancestry from the region alone.
A little off-topic, but it's so nice to see the increasing number of Brits of African descent that are proud of their heritage. I know it's a generalisation, but it didn't seem the case when I lived there several years ago.
I did my dna and came back e1b1a.....straight to israel. Infact 90% of black americans caribbeans and black south Americans lands us in israel , not Africa
@@extracool3889 NO, you're an Israelite only if you are from an African tribe that descends from Israel, since African Americans are mixed with different African tribes that are mostly non Israelite, most of y'all ain't Hebrew Israelites, for example The Igbo and Igala tribes of Nigeria originate from Israel. Simple.
@@raphrobe-9896 two assumption. 1. I am from the caribbean. I have extremely well documentation regarding my heritage. 2 I did my dna. It came back as E1B1A which is specific to israel. It is non African. 3 The haplo is passed down paternal bloodline. Therefore African Americans can track their heritage along these lines
Great consultation on DNA, but History on the Go, DNA, is of a black Jew. During the 1400th in Europe, the Catholic Church signed an Auto de fe, (Spanish Inquisition) to implements an expulsion (exiled) all of the Black Jews to Caribean Island but first, they were exiled to West Africa. If Sudan is translated it would mean Juda. Look into the King James Bible: Acts 13:1 You'll see Niger; the apostle looked like Nigers = Black people. We are of the seed of Jacob = Hebrews: Well, here is another vital, important DNA video that will shock the lie out of false DNA Testing and who is the real genius on Earth ruclips.net/video/wycUwKGB2AA/видео.html
I remember the Black Harvard Prof who started the tv shows on it; his showed he was 50% Irish. He went to visit and two lovely older ladies(white) when told the Irish name, wondered if he was related to their cousins of the same name. It was a REAL human moment.
Yes that is the bottom line, we are all human beings of the same species. I truly hope humans get to that conclusion and start living as one for the sake of humanity. We war over the stupidest trivialities, and pursecute each other in such horrorable ways that belie the fact that humans have an ounce of humanity in us. That really bothers my sense of responsibility to my fellow man.
He wasn't 50% Irish but he found out that most of his European ancestry is from Ireland. Alot of black folks (lm referencing black people in America descended from enslaved people not Africans) European ancestors mostly came from England Ireland and a good bit from France
Subscribed. I did not care for history when I was in school, but as an adult, I love reading about different periods in history and how it shapes us today. I think more primary sources should be included in teaching history. That’s what made it interesting to me.
@Frank Peeters so you actually believe that they follow their own rules? you distrust dna tests, but trust them to keep your records safe and confidential. trust them to abide by the "law"?? you're funny. they don't have to trick you to send them info they have already. they do what ever they want. If they wanted your dna all they had to do is get a skin sample at birth or the thousand other opportunities they have daily. google has far more information about you than some dna company.
Exactly ! Im a white Caucasian I discovered that my 9th up Grandfather the son of a native American Nansemond woman. She and him both are recorded as being certified as Indian. A DNA test of someone from my linage took showed he was of nansemond and Sub Sahara. We all are Americans no matter where or how our ancestors came from. Im sure if I did the DNA I will find a lot more ethnicity in me. No big deal that is what makes us all so unique. We can't change the past. Only make today and the future better as we all learn.
I'm a Nigerian and you look even 100% Nigerian. :-) Love from your Nigerian sister! I love your explanation. You're very correct. For example: Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, Togo are very close culturally. One example is that we all make variations of Jollof Rice. People even say that Jollof Rice came all the way from Senegal. Anyway, it makes sense from what you're saying, that we're closeley related.
Great video and great DNA results. I’m always interested in learning about people who were not born in Africa but have a high percentage of African DNA. My family is from the states of North Carolina and South Carolina in the United States and my African DNA is 95% consisting of Nigeria, Cameroon/Congo, Benin Togo, and Mali. Subscribed!
I'm African American too, from Louisiana. My own African ancestry is about 70% African and 30% European, the main African regions being Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Benin, Senegal, and Ghana. I think the reason for this is that our ancestors predominately intermarried and procreated with other Black people, most with similar genetic origins, which maintained our genetic continuity.
African DNA that high in the us typically means you have Geechee Gullah ancestry since you specifically mentioned the coast of the Carolinas. I would definitely do genealogy research to confirm. You may be surprised.
@@globalgogetter4469 Thanks for pointing out history that we all know. I was addressing the creator of this video, who is a person that lives in the modern time when the term is commonly and widely used to describe the motherland. So it should be obvious to you why I used it.
@@tosinojo7310 "Plenty of African "races"?...LOL...Well considering that: 1) the gentleman in the video is a member of the West African diaspora, 2) can't trace his roots to only one or two areas in West Africa (nor let alone any specific tribe), and 3) his test results show that his African percentage is almost exclusive and extremely high relative to his nearly non-existent European percentage, it should be obvious to you why I used the term.
I think we have this fixed concept with ethnicity and location. Genetics and populations have always moved. Some African countries didn't even exist prior to colonialism. There were a host of migrations across the continent. That DNA is still within those populations. Colonialism and slave institutions just made our genetics even more complex.I'm African American, and of course my ancestry is a mix of several West/Central African regions and peoples. I also received a significant portion of European ancestry. But what was really interesting is that I also received traces of East African and North African ancestry.
Results are based on reference populations, and as more people are added to the database - these numbers can change over time. For example, If our 54% Nigerian friend took another test in 10 years, his results would be different than they are today.
To me all of these DNA reveals are very interesting and you always learn something. Thanks for bringing up all the wars that have taken place in Africa, sounds like Europe and Asian, doesn't it? The majority of mine is British Isles but 2% Finnish and 1% Siberia which is neat.
My DNA test was spot on. The only thing I didn't know was the Scandinavian part, 'cause none of my grandparents talked about any of that. It makes sense though because I have British/Irish and German DNA. It is only natural that I would be part Scandinavian.
Interesting! My family was all born and raised in Ghana, so it was really cool to see through my DNA results that I was actually 2/3 Ghanaian and 1/3 Nigerian
Surely it is a great shock, I was born in TANZANIA and raised in TANZANIA until the age of 28 when I move to UK, but When I went for DNA test in 2017 I was shocked to find out it showed that I am bantu original, 49% my ancenstors are IGBO from NIGERIA, CAMEROON, GABON CENTRAL AFRICA, CONGO And 26% KENYA and UGANDA, 25% SOUTHERN AFRICA includes ZAMBIA, MALAWI, MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE, NAMIBIA SWAZILAND and SOUTH AFRICA a NGUNI tribe. So really it was a big shock and I am encouraging our people who can afford to do that please do it, it is very good.
It is easier to comprehend if you acknowledge that you had 8 great grandparents. And 16 great great grandparents. Meaning that you and everyone had 32 great great great grandarents. Thats only 5 generations from your generation. Have you wondered what a room of 5 generations of grandparents (if they were alive) would look like? You might need a hall.
@Kei Adams Thank you as if you was in my mind, I am planning to do with another company but I am so glad because through this results I manage to find a lot of my relatives and my clans SHONGA family who are still living in NIGERIA the place called KWARA ESTATE and I manage to give them a call and talk to them, so I really thank GOD for that!
I identify as African American.... I did my DNA about 10 years ago. 72% African. The rest is Scottish, Norwegian, Spanish, Native American, Irish, and Wales.. I'm just all over the globe🤦🏽♀️
This is an excellent video, and it makes its point very clear. I've thought it strange that in China, the 56 ethnic groups are called "nationalities"--especially considering, as we all know, that in a few areas, these "nationalities" haven't even been allowed to have their own nation!
I chuckle because it doesn't matter anymore. You are what are and that's that. It is what it is. Nothing you can do to change it. So let's learn how to embrace it!
Why does it not matter what you are? If you're talking in terms of the racists view then yea, but it def matters to know what you are and where your dna comes from. Knowing yourself is the way to ultimate.knowledge and acceptance of ones self and every other human on this planet.
Great analysis of ethnicity, race, and nationality. Within artificial boundaries called countries you're always are many different groups within the boundaries.
If the scientific community was as objective as people pretend it is, the whole concept of race could have been dispelled decades ago. But here we are. They Bible was far more honest in not acknowledging race as a specific thing although folks love to force it in there.
I remember a video of someone who kinda based her whole identity on being African (despite being very obviously very mixed) and took a very Afro-centric heritage test that was supposed to trace her ancestry back to specific tribes and whatnot. She was obviously very personally invested in the whole "daughter of Africa" image she had built for herself. The test came back that they couldn't narrow down the results because she wasn't African enough; she was only around 50% African genetically or something like that. And she basically had an emotional breakdown about how this test, that was supposed to validate her and show how strong her African ties were, instead was "basically a slap in the face" by telling her how white she actually is and she wasted her money and wants to take a different test because "obviously, these results aren't right." The reality is that there is less genetic variance among different "races" and "ethnicities" of human than there is among different breeds of dog; vastly less. People make such a big deal over such superficial differences. The only race is the Human race.
I understand the hunger for pride in heritage, wanting to be associated with a noble people, and not a pack of enslavers. In reality, though, our ancestry has little, if anything to do with who we are today. We can’t take credit for the victories of our mothers and fathers, neither should we accept blame for their sins. What matters is how I treat you, and vice versa
I knew this Hispanic dude who got so violent he wanted to punch me in the face. We were all sitting around just hanging out and this was 30 years before all this DNA stuff was a thing. We were all talking about where we came from and I told him he had black features and he flew into a rage and told me I was reading the wrong history books and that he was white. I said Bro are you kidding me? Do you know your entire island has been mixed with everything from just about every nationality in Europe and the middle east to African. But he want to classify himself as white even though he had more black features in him. His coarse hair gave him away.
@@Meshuga63 if by not a pack of enslavers you mean africa checkout the ottoman empire and the barbary pirates they took white slaves for over 600 years
The Ethiopian people are supposed to be the most genetically diverse people in the world. Which means they hold all the genes for fair skin, dark skin, fair hair, black, brown, straight and curly hair, brown eyes, blue eyes and green eyes. In other words they have the genes of everyone in the world. If, I had that genealogy, I would be so proud.
i dad knows a lot of middle eastern, north african, and eastern european people and a lot of them dont look at all of their countrys stereotypical phenotypes
I don't think that statement is accurate. The various Khoe, Tuu, or Kxʼa-speaking indigenous hunter-gatherer groups are known to be more genetically diverse. They are one of the oldest known groups. Many Ethiopians are mixed with Arabs. Look further on sites on youtube in which Ethiopians submitted their DNA results.
@@z7z766 I'm not stating one is descendant from the the other. The area was a very important trading route. Therefore, contact between the groups were common. You'll see similar mixture of people in Somalia, the Sudan, and Eritrea.
This is brilliant. Love to tell you my DNA story so far. As you say this is unfolding. It's a work in progress. We're dealing with estimates and hypotheses. However, we have more than most of us had in the past, save for anecdotes which matter a great deal and the odd documentation. Thank you so much for this. Food for thought. Terrible things have happened to us, true, but it is important to have information, no matter what, understanding that there is a price to pay, a cost for consciousness. As some Akan say, as an admonition, "Don't go looking after lineages."
I am of Nigerian blood - born, raised and living in the UK. I know which part of Nigeria my parents, grandparents and great grandparents hail from so if my DNA results expected on March 23rd 2021 are not fully West African (100%), I will be a little surprised. I took the test out of curiosity and await the results with great interest.
Blame the confusion on the education system, it really does not teach critical thinking skills or encourage individual research. Everyone in this day and age should know about human migration and that mankind has never been happy without exploration. Especially early man who moved out of Africa and into other parts of the world.
People don't want clarity and understanding, they want superficiality and fantasy 'My great, great grandmother was a native american, 'cherokee,' with looooong hair all the way down her back'; 'one-drop rule'.
Did my DNA a couple of years ago. It showed I have DNA from all over the world except for Australia and New Zealand. Native American, Europe, British Isles, Africa, Sweden, Russian, Siberia and Asia.
Its also possible that these people doing the DNA tests just write up some statistics without doing any actual test to save time/money thinking you will never know.
That’s pretty impossible because they also give you a list of your DNA relatives. You receive a list of over 1,000 people.You will see family members here.
Indi Russell I fiends of mind did his DNA and he found a uncle he didn't know, his Dad didn't even know he had another brother. My friend Dad live here in England and his new found brother in Canada. But they both were in Jamaica on holiday when they found out.
None of it means much of anything. Why should you care where your ancestors came from? Most people don't know and it makes zero difference to them or anyone else. Look at it for curiosity but don't think it matters, because it doesn't.
@@freedapeeple4049 Actually you are so very WRONG: in places like South Africa, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand knowing your ancestry is important culturally, politically, and even legally. The colonial practices of slavery, indentured labour, segregation, forced displacement, often under the auspices of Christian missions, has disconnected whole nations of people from their traditional ancestral lands, culture and identity. In American legal statutes having any African ancestry means you are Black, and we all know the discrimination that happens there against Black and First Peoples. In Australia the consequences to the Stolen Generations are current: not only are First Australians denied their cultural heritage but they they have had their living families stripped away from with parents, uncles and aunts, and even grandparents still living, and still mourning their removal. There is also another very good reason to know one's genetic ancestry - your health and the health of your descendents. There are various medical conditions that occur with significantly higher incidents in peoples of certain ethnicities, and those with various ancestries may carry recessive or dormant genes for those conditions. Knowing your ancestry and your partner's ancestry gives you and your children the opportunity to get genetic testing to see if you are carriers of those genes. That's important too don't you think?
@@DriftWizard750 Actually I'm Silurian, no human DNA at all. I had a romance with a deliciously handsome man and begat twins. I couldn't bear to part from my man so I take him out of the freezer once a year on our anniversary. As for my kids, they had far too much human dna for me to keep them but just the right amount to go with a full-bodied shiraz. Delicious. How old are you and what's your ethnicity? I need to see if I have the right wine in my cellar.
@@omoz189 idk. Never taken a test. I watch alot of the reveals though. Thinking of taking two. African ancestry is a guarantee, I'm definitely taking that one but the other few companies idk. A few questions marks.
No question mark at all for me my brother Ancestry 23andme is the business I wouldn't waste £300 on African Ancestry hmmmm na mate I'm not dissing it it's just that with 23andme and Ancestry told me all what I know and more ! But maybe when I do the African Ancestry I hope they get it right were I am from as I know for the last 2000 years it's been southern Nigeria my brother 🤔🤔
@@omoz189 I feel u. African Ancestry does cost a bit, but I can do it. Seems you already had some information to go on also. That's cool. Here, I'm just a regular black dude. No information at all.
This is a huge thing in our times. What is identity? As you said you were born in England, so its kind of like when the Moshiach is both son of David and son of Joseph. You might not understand. You can say you are british and also you are african. You are both! The problem we have in society today is when someone says you are african but you say you are british or when you are told you are only british, but then your history is rebuked. Im not the best with words, but there has to be something going forward that is origin DNA, and where we dwell. both are important parts of everyones' identity and everyones' story! Please push this fantastic revelation forward brother, its really important. You have found what defines us, where we are from or originate and where we dwell or live. It forms the narrative, it creates the story!
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Nobody's great-great-great grandparents were Nigerian because there was no such country when they lived. And these tests can't actually tell you exactly where your ancestors lived, what they can tell you is that your DNA is similar to the DNA of people living in particular regions today (that they have tested and have access to in their databases)
True, did you watch the whole video, I mentioned when Nigeria was named...
@@historyonthego yes I did. And yes you did. We're basically saying the same thing...
Ty for telling the ones that don’t know history the truth!!👊🏾
The real truth about all these DNA ancestry sites is they have not even come close to the database needed to even be confident about the absolute lies they spew. It's been well documented and you can do a simple search and find out yourselves. They mostly just spit out bogus info to make people feel good.
@@CarolinaGuy 💯% truth you just posted my brother!!!✊🏾
i like this guy. very pleasant guy. sounds good. sensible man. talks quietly. what a pleasant change on the web to find such a person. :)
A very eloquent gentleman indeed
I could easily watch him for an hour a day.
I talked about this with my brother, who was wondering why we had so much Greek and Turkish in us when we are both 100% Italian on all sides. 1,000 years ago, "Italy" didn't exist. 2,000 years ago, "Greek" and "Italian" were both Roman. Any earlier than that, and we would have been called three-quarters Sabine and one-quarter Latin. The names we use depend on political boundaries, which shift with the wind sometimes.
The point you make is what people need to understand our nationalities can change so easily.
@@historyonthego Yep ... my brother's wife's family came to the US in two groups. One was registered as Polish in the immigration records. The other was registered as Ukrainian. The village hadn't moved. The border moved OVER the village. What they are depended on when you asked!
Much more likely to be recent
Prussian is a good example. Sicilian / Greek also overlap.
Well technically Greeks existed long before Romans or Italy. The Italian peninsula was colonized by the Greeks but there were indigenous people living there like the Latins. Then the City State of Rome was established and well the Romans were very good at conquering other nations.
People need to learn difference between Race, Nationality and Ethnicity.. I can’t tell how many times people asked me. What is your nationality, I say Canadian. They get all confused. They are trying to ask what my ethnicity is, but they confuse it with nationality.
Just tell your Ethnicity
If you was of European descend there would be no confusing.
Hah! That's like one time a white co-worker from England was talking about a friend of hers who was getting married to an Australian. I immediately asked her if he is Aborigines. She looked at me like, "are you serious?" I was. You see, we are in NY and I do not know anyone from Australia. So, in my mind when you say someone is Australian, I do not see a white person. I take a few seconds to process this kind of information before speaking now. Don't get me started with South Africa. Hmm, I wonder what people who have never been to the US think of when they hear someone is American.
Doreen Thompson Funny, we can have preconceived idea based on our knowledge. When I travel to North Africa years back a a lot of Tunisians was asking me and my friends where we came from. We told them England. But they kept pushing us for more. Most of my friend were either Jamaica born and British born Jamaicans so in the end we told the people we came from Jamaica. I was the only British born from St Vincent and the Grenadines. I don't know if they has any idea black peoples lived in England . Funny some people in America surprised when they meet a black British person. I was in Philly years back and some girls in Wendy food Resturant was going crazy when I spoke lol.
@@historyonthego Hey. Thanks for the response. I think that experience was/is funny too. I tell it all the time. Also, I too am Jamaican. When I travel and people ask me where I'm from, depending on the mood I'm in, I'll say NY or USA or I live in NY but I'm from Jamaica. I have ancestors from so many different parts of the globe, me caan badda with the DNA. What is the point? Just live good with people and respect. A so me see it.
I totally understand and believe what you’re saying. People have been moving around the globe 🌍 forever.
Very cool to hear someone discuss ethnicity with intellect rather than emotions. Very interesting video.
Migration, migration, migrations.Captures, enslavement so much entanglement.
Nice way of putting it..
Africans🗣🗣been migrating since ancient time migrating is nothing new to the African🗣
Thank you, please say this for those all the way on the back. I keep saying this. Migration, trades, African people have been travelling for centuries before colonization. Some people are to concern about the color of their skin. Some one skin color doesnt prove anything. your DNA will tell you a lot.
Rina Querida True
@@querida1809 I love reading ancient history, but in doing so I realized there was significant movement across continents with trading, warring, defending boarders from intruders. Afrikans allowed boarding peoples to live without incident so there was mixing and marriages until the intrugers' got greedy which precipitated war. They had boats so they were not confined to the continent itself. We are talking very ancient history, does not account for recent stuff. Amazing!
Oh my God when you said (with a British Accent) that your Nigerian percentage was higher than the guy born in Nigeria I laughed for a whole minute 😂😂😂😂😂
Right
Thanks lol
Jamaican born. 79% Nigerian..
You from Africa %100 😂
@@miguelbran1854 Yes indeed happy and blessed!
The human race has always been much fluid than most people think.
I think Ghengis Khan had more fluid than most, 16 million men carry his genetic markers, a large number of Mongolians are descended from him. He had a LOT of kids!
There was less hybridization before the ice age cataclysm, but afterwards Cro-magnon dna spread out across the world, perhaps not coincidentally around the same time as agriculture, mono/megalithic structures, animal domestication, and the study of the stars (Zoroastrianism)
Humans have been moving around the planet for about 2000 years (1st ships to cross the Mediterranean and long overland caravans).
@@adaeptzulander2928 your view of history is very narrow my friend
For sure.
You explained DNA history better than anyone I have listened to. Clear and direct. Thank you!
I agree 100%.
You need to ask for your haplo type. I guarantee you it will take you straight to israel. You are NOT African you are Hebrew. E1b1a is specific. Africans carry E1b1b. He is misleading you
I also agree.
@@extracool3889, All humans originated in Africa. We moved upwards and outwards and 🧭 through what is now Israel, the middle east, and off the continent of Africa. We separated and went our own ways, discovering new lands, sprouting new cultures and mutating to become different "races".
Are you implying that the OP is mistaken in believing he is sub-Saharan?
@@stephanieyee9784 i do not follow the traditional narrative that all humans originated in Africa. But let is suppose that your narrative is correct does it follow therefore that we should all gather tigether and sing kombyah? You will notice that thise who are at a major disadvantage are the blacks in America and that they are being killed disproportionately by the pigs in Amerikkka. But lets put that aside for a moment. Please read Deuteronomy 28 before we embark on a meaningful debate...please
The concepts of Nigeria, Ghana, etc... are recent creations when the French and British divided that area. Africans who lived there before are more connected to ethnic kinship.
The woodpile has wood from all kinds of trees! And we are all one big woodpile these days!
The race card doesn’t fit in. We have the Trump Card!
Watched an episode of an ancestry programme on British TV some years ago that featured a white female campaigner for English ethnic rights. She sounded rather bigoted and assumed she was descended from Anglo-Saxon tribes or Northern European Vikings. Her DNA test turned out she was predominantly Romany Gypsy! The very people she looked down upon and sought to distinguish herself from! 😊
I guess she hates herself now 🧐
Nice narrative, even though it sounds staged for shock value.
Is it the Channel 4 programme where they even tested Thatcher's daughter?
If it's the one, the lady you are talking about was going to sue the channel for implying she is not 100% English. It was a sight to behold as they revealed her ancestry. Most of the people had Mongolian blood.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_English
Yes I saw that programme and it was fascinating. She fervently believed that she was an Anglo saxon and got really angry at her gypsy DNA results . There have been quite a few prejudice white folk in the American South but ironically lots of them also have much African DNA .
Check out the Ainsley Harriott episode
I am 100% human race. End of.
Word!
Amen 🙏
African people are the only race with 100 % pure African no admixtures of European, Indian, and Asian as African Americans
Amen 🙏❤️
Origin of Man: West Africa. DNA doesnt lie. Lets see how long this stays up now.
Excellent, Well Done!!, I am from across the pond in the US. Five years ago I had my first DNA testing done by the National Geographic Genographic Project. My results' tract to Nigeria as well, the Yoruba... the second round identified 24% other results including the UK, Eurasia and Native American tribes. I too, experienced a similar sense of shock, a normal response to centuries of conditioning. Africans from across the diaspora have been similarly traumatized by slavery and colonization. To suddenly for the first time be awakened from the Matrix can be disorienting, like finding out you were adopted.
So much of how we think about ourselves is filtered through the lens of White culture. DNA results can offer an opportunity to see our selves from a scientific perspective independent of cultural story lines that may no longer be relevant. They can now, instead, serve as a point to a more expansive journey.
I've subscribed. It is wonderful to hear a learned person that understands humanity's history and that knows the difference between ethnicity and nationality.☺👍
Thanks
Same here, just heard this guy, he explains things so well.
Ethnicity is not nationality and national borders are arbitrary since people throughout history would migrate for different and various reasons.
Yes that's what I have said.. I wars of movement of people for environmental reasons, Was cause mass movements. Inter marrying is big factor. Slavery is a factor also.
Hey 👋🏽 L. Miller I always notice your supportive comments on the Hu Band from Mongolia 🇲🇳 Reactions. The outcome and the accuracy of DNA results are interesting to me. I’m Indigenous Native North American from Northern California. 🙋🏻♀️
Yes, but they still have the one drop rule !
@@historyonthego Yes and don't forget the massive Arab slave trade as well as the Ottoman slave trade
@@maureencopeland5300 Yes my channel is new so I will cover that lol.. Hopefully aim is to bring a balanced history. Thanks
I absolutely loved how you explained African DNA.
It's the same for any DNA.
True
Beautiful video. Best explanation ever. People need to understand that these ethnicities are not subject to one country or political area but based on population migrations of people over time and places. The more people get tested the more precise will be the results. You may find over time that you may get updated results that may look different, just remember your DNA doesn't change just how the data will improve how we get to know the past. I look forward to seeing your videos.
I'm American but of a majority European background. I liked and subscribed as I found your topic interesting and I love history.
I listened to the end because I found your voice and accent so pleasing.
even turning up my volume didn't help. enunciate!
The reason that Nigerian is surprised by the DNA result is simply because most Nigerians like many other Africans are quite ethnocentric. So, they are shoked to find out that their lineage included people of other tribes that's even outside their country.
I hear that
Love the way you call African tribal racism 'ethnocentric'. Isn't white racism also ethnocentriocity?
@@davidjessop2279 It's not Racism as they are not two different races. And they are not being racist at all just because they don't want to mix their blood, but I don't expect you to know anything about what racism is. Lol
Honestly i am quite scare african rasism about whites and othets africans. And I am estonian and this is word wonder that we have preserve our own language.
@@metslane9911 Not sure what you mean , You fearful of African racism toward you. Nothing wrong in preserving your language.please explain.
The need to believe we're 100% this or that is driven by a mostly emotional desire for a sense of homogenous belonging and 'solid' personal identity ; reality doesn't care about our emotions🌍
I couldn't have said it better myself.
This is so true
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Jermaine Long To add to your comment. We must acknowledge that we had 8 great grandparents and 16 great greats.
@ Jermaine Long - I think it is quite boring to be 100% of anything. I think the diversity is interesting.
I was shocked to find out my DNA was traced back to Adam and Eve.
We all are!
Lol
You are if you Melenated because we the 12 tribe of Israel
@@doctorr.t.v.3142 there you go with that 12 tribes of yodah bs
@doctorr.t.v.3142 Every human has melanin. Therefore, every human is melanated and is related to each other and our first parents, Adam and Eve
Let's not forget you have some African men who have Chinese paternal ancestry and this is way before colonization of the European nations into Africa so this goes to prove that Africa and China was trading well before even the Arab slave trade
Facts!!!
The first language is Afro-Asiatic according to top linguists.
It also mean to say that Chinese are descendants of Africans who lived North of Egypt.
Yuppp! Same phenomenon in Kenya
The Arab slave trade started about 1500 BC... if not earlier...
Great to hear from you bro.
Lecture our people, because many tend to run away with general information, without an academic view, to scrutiny.
The first premier of British Columbia, Canada, James Douglas, was born in what is now Guyana to a Scottish father and a mixed Scottish-African mother. His wife was mixed Cree and Scottish, so his children had African, European and Cree ancestry.
Finally a person of African descent who gets it! Using Jamaica as an example of Nationality was good because a lot of people may still not be receptive to the idea of African people enslaving other African people or of them moving around and intermarriage between ethnic groups. Not all borders in the past would have been "hard" borders and nomadic people move where they Need to.
I am mixed: mostly English, Welsh, Irish and east Asian but also show 1+% of Nigerian DNA. As I'm the only one of my family paternal and maternal to show it, (yes we're full siblings), I think it must be a relic from my deep ancestry. I liken DNA mixes to a tossed salad. We chop up the ingredients, mix them in one big bowl then serve it into smaller portions. Everyone gets the same salad but different amounts of its ingredients.
PS: Cymru Am Byth! 🏴
☮❤🦘🇦🇺
I love your analogy : ) Tip: Try a few drops of sesame oil in your sallad next time. Another is a slice of cucumber in gin and tonic instead of sitrus.
I love the salad metaphor, thats a great way to look at it!
Very well said! Thank you!
Hold on
My sister has a small % of Nigerian dna whilst I'm (very boringly) 100% European, so I think you're right about the ancient DNA. We used different brand tests by the way
Congratulations on your Welsh heritage. We'll keep a welcome for you. 🏴
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"We cannot mix DNA with politics and nationalism" THANK YOU OMG !!!!!!! NATIONALISM IN AFRICAN MADE THEM FORGET THAT OUR ANCESTORS OCCUPIED REGIONS WHERE THEY MIXED WITH OTHER CLANS TOO ... OMG
I agree.
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Exactly we have to take into consideration, test updates lol, pre & post colonial kingdoms, migration, intermarriage, neo colonial name changes, etc its more than meets the eye and its multi hypothesis when you consider all that can pop up on your test. Im from north america and my test looks similar to yours, great video!
👍👍👍👍Well said. Most people don't think, that's the problem
What is interesting is if you trace the DNA you find that the whole human race is all related as you go back in time. We are all one human race.
Very true. I met a man who boasted that he came from a very old family that went right back to King Edward 1. I told him my family went right back to Adam and Eve! Actually we all descended from Adam and Eve, so we are all members of the same family!
Truth
@@funquay2219 Awww, that's cute. (I hope you're kidding.) According to Genesis, we all come from Adam and Eve, who had three sons. Think about that...take all the time you need. 😁
@@rockradstone Hi Rick. I took about 30 seconds to find the answer to your question. Genesis chapter 5 verse 4 reads "After he became the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Hope that helps you. Best regards.
@@funquay2219 800years is too much a time span which makes it unbelievable to even believers
So many races marched through Africa it is surprising anyone is truly black-black
Majority are pure specially those in Central and Southern Africa
Lol
@Simply me You are literally my twin on these matters 😂😂
So, we all must stop ethnic profiling.
I remember when Henry Louis Gates did his DNA on his TV show. His ancestry included Ireland to a 7th century king. One third of Ireland today can trace ancestry to this king because he had so many kids from all his wives. It was interesting because both his parents were black and he assumed African ancestry.
I think he means African black people. AA in general have quite a bit of European ancestry because many of us have formerly enslaved ancestors and there was a lot of racial mixing
@@SE-gs6gd Yeah my sister has 2% Iberian (Spain) ancestry even though my mother and father have no immediate ancestry in the last eight generations. My friend has 1.7% Neanderthal DNA, meaning her homo sapiens ancestors interbred with Neanderthals.
My uncle told me his wife was searching out her roots in the Caribbean, I asked, "Jamaica?", he replied, "No she went of her own accord."
took me a second but than ROFLOL
@@christianlingurar7085 "I met this gorgeous girl yesterday. She told me she came from Northern Italy". "Genoa"? "Look I told you I only just met her".
niceperson.
The old uns are the best, l.o.l.
Now, that's funny right there. I don't care who you are...
Ouch!
And then there are those DNA results where they give identical twins two completely different results... I'm not sure the DNA ancestry industry is really all that concerned about accuracy.
My baby sister is a retired pathologist. She decided to test us all, and of 12, one of us had no Italian ancestry. The problem is our mother is 100% Italian. I too don't trust them.
Ancestry has changed my DNA results several times and calls them updates 😳 How do you go from less than 1% of an ethnicity to 24 %? They have been adding and taking away ethnicities. I really believe they are scamming everyone.
@@hiburniaanderson6354 go to a decent company for a real DNA test.
@@Odo-so8pj It doesn't exist. Facts.
Could fraternal twins be from two different fathers??
Very informative…your breakdown is very much needed to teach people history, biology and geography!
It wasn't always through slavery that intermarriage happened. Tribes would broker peace or marriage agreements and merge for safety and survival, then move apart when tribes grew large enough. A reason why genetic kin can be found in different regions in Africa. Natural and unnatural events caused these swings in populations.
I guess I didn't say every reason, my talk is nor conclusive.. I mention migration which as said for many reasons.
Wow, amazing results . 99% African, after hundreds of years.
It has been so interesting watching this presentation and reading the diverse comments. My two cents is that I describe myself as a Black African-American, which means to me that I was born in America and I am of African descent. This further means to me that I am a Black African who because of circumstances beyond my control was born in America. (I consider my personal designation as identifying my race, nationality, ethnicity, and culture). My DNA states that I am 94% West African (a mixture of 41% Nigerian and a lesser percentage Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Congo, Southern and Western Bantu People, Benin, Togo). You can say I am mixed (LOL).
One of the most balanced and informed vid I've seen on RUclips. I've had my DNA tested many years ago from National Geographic. Yep I originated from Africa!
There are some Caucasian people that has African DNA in them and won't admit it.
@@Annie-zd6rn All humans have African DNA in them by the very definition of human history. To be specific the L3 haplotype
The Vikings really got around, left their DNA everywhere.
@@timothykeith1367 My DNA is almost purely German and 99.8% European overall (per 23 and me). The 0.2% non European is 0.1 Native American and 0.1% Siberian.
A lot of Baltic also
Yes they did!
People move constantly and meet other people and go happy go lucky with each other.
African countries should name their own countries in their own language including the continent.
ruclips.net/video/8A9WCXJKK54b/видео.html
Who is stopping them? Countries have already been changed from the European names. Africans need to come together and make decisions for the CONTINENT of Africa and stop blaming others for your problems
There are indigenous names for Africa already in use just not popular
@@mlungisiwright Ouwarre period peace.
Why African should do that? Is it going to improve their lives? Is it going to make Africa a better place?
Multiple languages, spoken for few people are a barrier to understanding among people. I speak two of three most spoken languages in the world and I'm proud of that.
I've ancesters from 4 continents including Africa, I don't speak any African originated language in spite I'm mostly genetically African, it doesn't make native Africans better than me.
The best and more intelligent behavior for all the people in the world is to be able to speak AT LEAST one of the most extended languages in the world , instead of trying to get isolated of the rest of the world using only local languages. It's stupid to Build walls instead of bridges.
I was born in St. Petersburg Russia same as my mother and father. My Dad's family were Jews from the Ukraine. My DNA results stated that my maternal DNA was most common in Armenia and my paternal was Ethiopia. Interesting.
Maybe ur Ethiopian Jews.
@@mustaqbalabdiweli my thoughts exactly.
Mankind is old and most people are mixed.(genetically mixed) That's how we move, survive and get genetically diversified and strong. That makes DNA exciting as we can imagine and appreciate the steps our many ancestors have endured. The lines on maps drawn by political powers do not represent where people ruled and lived or felt at home, nor do they define how we feel inside and we inherit strengths and talents from far away places of moving origins and it is good so. That seems to be part of the survival plan and fate. Great video! History when told truthfully, clears the mind of nonsense and let's us be better adults.
@@AAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD lol race is invention there's only one: human with multiple ethnicities. 😂😂😂
@@AAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD you need to change doctors then. Ot maybe you failing for that crap cause you need to justify some personal bias. Anyway there is one race: the human one acording to all science magazines and current medical publications.
@@AAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD And the Earth is flat as well?
Race is a modern construct.
We are all ONE species, Homo Sapiens.
Any GP or doctor will NOT confirm we're any way shape or form genetically and biologically separated by "race".
Humans have been moving and mixing for a good 200,000 years.
DNA doesn't care about borders or your brainwashed notions.
A lot of Europeans have almost 100% European ancestry the same for many Asians.
@@geni412 Agreed. Recently got back my DNA results and I'm distressingly North European: I was hoping for a more interesting result.
I'm from the United States of America and my ancestors were brought here as slaves sometime between the 1600 and the 1800s. I recently had my DNA tested and found that I'm 42.7% Nigerian, 19.7% Ghanaian, Liberian & Sierra Leonean, 2.2% Senegambian & Guinean. The remainder of my DNA is French & German, British & Irish, Native American, and Chinese & Southeast Asian. The most recent part of my ancestry is found in the Caribbean (Jamaica). Unfortunately, I have no way of knowing which tribes my family would have come from in Africa. We identify as African American or Black here in the U.S.
Maybe try uploading your raw DNA to a website like Gedmatch or something, that might specify your results
You lady are a true world human representative,💯
It's a Fake DNA test, U heard what Gates said it was a joke!!! Fake !
So, it sounds like you're Jamaican American, not African American as African Americans are descendants of the slaves of the United States of America.
I uploaded my results to gedmatch easy step one step 2 you can do a "one to many comparison and look at a gang of names. When you come across any that look unusual to you make a note of the name and the gedmatch number. Since you came back mostly Nigerian look for Nigerian names. How will you know they are Nigerian? Nigerian names tend to start with A,O, or U also if the name is Igbo it may have the word "Chi" in it or you may see gb or kp in the name. If the name is Yoruba you may see Ade- or Akin- or -tunde or
wale or wunmi. After and if you find a possible African name Google to verify it is African. Now you've found the name is African the next thing you want to do is try to fit out is your match African or just has an African name. Most Africans are not mixed with non-African ancestry. Whereas most of us AAs are. You want to go to where they allow you to do a comparison to see if your match is mixed or not go to the "EthioHelix" if your match is African they should not show any non-African results you can email them and ask if they or their parents are from Africa hopefully you get a response. I did everything I suggested and I found I think maybe 5 matches with no non-African admix all 5 were or are Nigerian. I one has a name from the Ibani Ijaw people of Nigeria. The rest are Igbo
we are all offspring from sucessfull surviving ancestors, 100% human
and we know that biological diversity is good (inbreeding is bad)
thank you for making an intelligent comment, way too uncommon !
Yeah, that's one of the reasons why races are a construct. They only have sociopolitical meaning, mostly in the US, but genetically they don't exist. That's why I think it's annoying when Americans try to push the concept onto us Europeans. We divide people differently here. In my country we unfortunately also have racism, but apart from neonazis and some radical leftists it's not based on race, but on stuff like ethnicity, appearance, and nationality. So the race concept doesn't even hold much meaning for racists.
Well, apparently NOT 100% human, with Neandertal, Denisovan, and at least one unknown other, haha! But you're right - we're all descended from survivors. At least they survived long enough to have kids.
@@ralphacosta4726 ;-)
all of them 100% human, no doubt for me, another family, but humans anyway… (and as we know, inbreeding is not such good idea)
I don’t care about everyone’s Ancestry. I care about you and what type of person YOU are!
But it is still interesting to know where your ancestors originated
I'm part aggplant
Kathryne, I agree with you. I'm interested in the content of one's character not their color/ethnicity, etc.
Reminds me of the old episode of Barney Miller where detective Harris researches his black heritage and finds out he's mostly Scottish.
Ethnicity also has to do with time. My Y DNA test initially came back saying my paternal line was from the coast of Normandy, which is true (8th GGF). A few years later it said I was Scandinavian, likely a product of Vikings invading Normandy and assimilating. Cousins in the UK are likely the product of the Norman Conquest in 1066. If they keep going they’ll say I’m Middle Eastern and eventually African. Human history is fraught with migration and conquest. My French Canadian ancestors bred with the Natives, a branch that practiced ritualized torture and cannibalism. My English Colonist ancestors committed biological warfare and genocide on those Native Americans. I am immensely proud of each branch of my genetic family tree and avoid judging their lives by today’s standards. All we can do is live a peaceful and civilized life and contribute to a better future.
You're proud of that though? Proud?
Well the canibalism is neandertal
That is scandinavian
Feeling proud? Is that evil still within you?
All of this is about to come out. You start hearing that some of your ancestors ate black people or/and mummies tissues.
Is this something you are proud of?
I do give you credit for saying this... I just learned what your ancestors did to the world.
All I can say is... It's evil!
Nevertheless, we will not let this information die... the truth will be revealed.
Biological warfare seems unlikely, germs weren't understood until much later, and North American Indians had already had epidemics sweep through them up from the Spanish colonies to the South, before the English started to colonise the East Coast.
I also get the impression from various sources that as more people are profiled, the more information there is for geographical determination and that also means if there are regions with low numbers of DNA samples, then they are less likely to show up when some-one gets their own DNA tested, even if they have almost 100percent ancestry from the region alone.
A little off-topic, but it's so nice to see the increasing number of Brits of African descent that are proud of their heritage. I know it's a generalisation, but it didn't seem the case when I lived there several years ago.
I did my dna and came back e1b1a.....straight to israel. Infact 90% of black americans caribbeans and black south Americans lands us in israel , not Africa
@@extracool3889 NO, you're an Israelite only if you are from an African tribe that descends from Israel, since African Americans are mixed with different African tribes that are mostly non Israelite, most of y'all ain't Hebrew Israelites, for example The Igbo and Igala tribes of Nigeria originate from Israel. Simple.
@@raphrobe-9896 two assumption. 1. I am from the caribbean. I have extremely well documentation regarding my heritage. 2 I did my dna. It came back as E1B1A which is specific to israel. It is non African. 3 The haplo is passed down paternal bloodline. Therefore African Americans can track their heritage along these lines
@siman say sure
Great consultation on DNA, but History on the Go, DNA, is of a black Jew. During the 1400th in Europe, the Catholic Church signed an Auto de fe, (Spanish Inquisition) to implements an expulsion (exiled) all of the Black Jews to Caribean Island but first, they were exiled to West Africa. If Sudan is translated it would mean Juda. Look into the King James Bible: Acts 13:1 You'll see Niger; the apostle looked like Nigers = Black people. We are of the seed of Jacob = Hebrews: Well, here is another vital, important DNA video that will shock the lie out of false DNA Testing and who is the real genius on Earth ruclips.net/video/wycUwKGB2AA/видео.html
I remember the Black Harvard Prof who started the tv shows on it; his showed he was 50% Irish. He went to visit and two lovely older ladies(white) when told the Irish name, wondered if he was related to their cousins of the same name. It was a REAL human moment.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Finding Your Roots, awesome show!
We have real human moments every single moment we’re alive.
Not 50%....
Yes that is the bottom line, we are all human beings of the same species. I truly hope humans get to that conclusion and start living as one for the sake of humanity. We war over the stupidest trivialities, and pursecute each other in such horrorable ways that belie the fact that humans have an ounce of humanity in us. That really bothers my sense of responsibility to my fellow man.
He wasn't 50% Irish but he found out that most of his European ancestry is from Ireland. Alot of black folks (lm referencing black people in America descended from enslaved people not Africans) European ancestors mostly came from England Ireland and a good bit from France
I can’t wait to hear more. Love your diversity and love your calm manner☝🏿👍🏿🇺🇸🇸🇪🍒
Subscribed. I did not care for history when I was in school, but as an adult, I love reading about different periods in history and how it shapes us today. I think more primary sources should be included in teaching history. That’s what made it interesting to me.
I’m into ancienT african history, it’s quite intriguing
Id like to know. However im not sending my precious DNA off to no lab for them to keep my shit...
LOL If you’ve ever been to a Doctor or a hospital, it’s more than likely that they already have it. But definitely stay away from 23 & me 😘
yea because another you would pop-out and take over your life, right? ...
they already have your dna. anyone going thru your trash can get your dna.
@Frank Peeters so you actually believe that they follow their own rules? you distrust dna tests, but trust them to keep your records safe and confidential. trust them to abide by the "law"?? you're funny. they don't have to trick you to send them info they have already. they do what ever they want. If they wanted your dna all they had to do is get a skin sample at birth or the thousand other opportunities they have daily. google has far more information about you than some dna company.
They probably all ready got your dna
Very common sense description. Thanks.
Before the boarders in Africa, there was the Mali empire, Sangai empire, the Ghana empire to name a few.
West Africa is and was the most genetically diverse part of the world. People are people. Let us not put more barriers between us.
Exactly ! Im a white Caucasian I discovered that my 9th up Grandfather the son of a native American Nansemond woman. She and him both are recorded as being certified as Indian. A DNA test of someone from my linage took showed he was of nansemond and Sub Sahara. We all are Americans no matter where or how our ancestors came from. Im sure if I did the DNA I will find a lot more ethnicity in me. No big deal that is what makes us all so unique. We can't change the past. Only make today and the future better as we all learn.
I'm a Nigerian and you look even 100% Nigerian. :-) Love from your Nigerian sister! I love your explanation. You're very correct. For example: Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, Togo are very close culturally. One example is that we all make variations of Jollof Rice. People even say that Jollof Rice came all the way from Senegal. Anyway, it makes sense from what you're saying, that we're closeley related.
Native American (Mexican Indian) 44 %
Spain 39%
Portugal 17%
I'm pretty much a typical Mexican 🌮🌮🌮
You got that result due to the conquistador
@@Truth-Reality. probably
Great video and great DNA results. I’m always interested in learning about people who were not born in Africa but have a high percentage of African DNA. My family is from the states of North Carolina and South Carolina in the United States and my African DNA is 95% consisting of Nigeria, Cameroon/Congo, Benin Togo, and Mali. Subscribed!
I'm African American too, from Louisiana. My own African ancestry is about 70% African and 30% European, the main African regions being Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Benin, Senegal, and Ghana. I think the reason for this is that our ancestors predominately intermarried and procreated with other Black people, most with similar genetic origins, which maintained our genetic continuity.
African DNA that high in the us typically means you have Geechee Gullah ancestry since you specifically mentioned the coast of the Carolinas. I would definitely do genealogy research to confirm. You may be surprised.
@@Meso504 Have you done genealogical research? You'll be surprised who you find on these Louisiana family tree branches
You're almost pure African. Good results. Very informative.
What is a "Pure African?" OUR EARLIEST Ancestors did NOT call themselves "Africans" it's ALL bullshit.
@@globalgogetter4469
Go read a book.
thats a ridiculous term..pure African..there are many different African races
@@globalgogetter4469 Thanks for pointing out history that we all know. I was addressing the creator of this video, who is a person that lives in the modern time when the term is commonly and widely used to describe the motherland. So it should be obvious to you why I used it.
@@tosinojo7310 "Plenty of African "races"?...LOL...Well considering that:
1) the gentleman in the video is a member of the West African diaspora,
2) can't trace his roots to only one or two areas in West Africa (nor let alone any specific tribe), and
3) his test results show that his African percentage is almost exclusive and extremely high relative to his nearly non-existent European percentage,
it should be obvious to you why I used the term.
I think we have this fixed concept with ethnicity and location. Genetics and populations have always moved. Some African countries didn't even exist prior to colonialism. There were a host of migrations across the continent. That DNA is still within those populations. Colonialism and slave institutions just made our genetics even more complex.I'm African American, and of course my ancestry is a mix of several West/Central African regions and peoples. I also received a significant portion of European ancestry. But what was really interesting is that I also received traces of East African and North African ancestry.
Also, we both, but also the migration from ancient Egypt should be there.
Results are based on reference populations, and as more people are added to the database - these numbers can change over time. For example, If our 54% Nigerian friend took another test in 10 years, his results would be different than they are today.
You've probably got 54% Frost Giant DNA.....
Exactly. I think their database is less than 5-10% at this point. Pretty useless.
To me all of these DNA reveals are very interesting and you always learn something. Thanks for bringing up all the wars that have taken place in Africa, sounds like Europe and Asian, doesn't it? The majority of mine is British Isles but 2% Finnish and 1% Siberia which is neat.
Humans are naturally kinda nomadic in nature. Though I'm a mutt.... XD
Hell I have a tiny bit of Congolese in me... lol (I probably spelled that wrong, hopefully you get it)
Lol
@@historyonthego you're probably not african but Israelites, research it for yourself
Yes, Humans are Nomadic
My DNA test was spot on. The only thing I didn't know was the Scandinavian part, 'cause none of my grandparents talked about any of that. It makes sense though because I have British/Irish and German DNA. It is only natural that I would be part Scandinavian.
Gallowglas.
Northern and Western Europe, is mostly Germanic/ Scandinavian.
Ireland was colonised in parts, by Norsemen as was western England.
@@silversurfer7079 Dublin was founded by the Vikings.
@@keithorbell8946 . Yes so I understand keith.
The Vikings were the absolute pioneers out of Northern Europe.
do not forget that the Normans, like William the Conquerer 1066, were originally Vikings - Normandy = Norse Man
Did i not just spend the last 7 mins watching idris elba?
Lol
Time traveller? ;-)
Idris Elba?
Omg! I was thinking the same! Lol!
His brother? 😅🤙🥰
I gave my Mom a DNA Ancestry kit for Christmas 2 yrs ago. Imagine our surprise when Chinese (8%) showed up in her profile! 😳
Didn't see that coming😂.
Same here. 5% Yucatán. Had to look that one up in the map.🤔😂
So that would make you 4% Chinese, but only a DNA test on you will make sure that hers was correct.
This is amazing to stumble amounts your channel. I've been a wakened by your lectures at Lewisham college. I'm glad you well and looking blessed
I'm 92.9% sub saharan african and 40.2% Nigerian.
😶
naija 4 live!
@Conover Stokes I didn't post my whole DNA results it was more
That’s exactly right! You are spot on ! Very erudite take on the issue!
Greetings from Oklahoma. I sent off my ancestry DNA test kit today. Can't wait to get the results in 6-8 weeks 😊
You from Africa😅
@@miguelbran1854 I wish. Nope, born and raised in the USA. How about you?
@@juanitaevans2715 buy the black ancestry kit instead of 23me
@@bani491 I never heard of 23me. The one I purchased was from Ancestry.com
Juanita The results?
I’m from Jamaica but my dad’s father is from Portugal so we’re mixed with African and Portuguese
Same here in DR
@@elmermontilla6371 that’s cool
@@elmermontilla6371 if you are from DR, it’s pretty expected
@@unfazedjae2645 yeah but the only thing is that i don’t speak Portuguese
@@JammingJa same
Interesting! My family was all born and raised in Ghana, so it was really cool to see through my DNA results that I was actually 2/3 Ghanaian and 1/3 Nigerian
Very cool. Congrats.
our countries' borders were decided by the colonialist. We could easily be the same country if not for them
Are you of the Ga people of Ghana ? Hope you don't mind me asking
@@omoz189 maybe, because they migrated from Nigeria right?
Ghanaians/Nigerians/Cameroonians mixed a lot during history
Flora Shaw?? I learned something today. Your explanations are good and make a lot of sense.
very clear and concise. Thanks for the great video!
Surely it is a great shock, I was born in TANZANIA and raised in TANZANIA until the age of 28 when I move to UK, but
When I went for DNA test in 2017 I was shocked to find out it showed that I am bantu original, 49% my ancenstors are IGBO from NIGERIA, CAMEROON, GABON CENTRAL AFRICA, CONGO
And 26% KENYA and UGANDA,
25% SOUTHERN AFRICA includes ZAMBIA, MALAWI, MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE, NAMIBIA SWAZILAND and SOUTH AFRICA a NGUNI tribe.
So really it was a big shock and I am encouraging our people who can afford to do that please do it, it is very good.
It is easier to comprehend if you acknowledge that you had 8 great grandparents. And 16 great great grandparents. Meaning that you and everyone had 32 great great great grandarents. Thats only 5 generations from your generation. Have you wondered what a room of 5 generations of grandparents (if they were alive) would look like? You might need a hall.
@@carlyletom301 very good question
A Tanzanian Nigerian
We claim you as bantu DNA 🤗🤗🤗🤗
@Kei Adams Thank you as if you was in my mind, I am planning to do with another company but I am so glad because through this results I manage to find a lot of my relatives and my clans SHONGA family who are still living in NIGERIA the place called KWARA ESTATE and I manage to give them a call and talk to them, so I really thank GOD for that!
ha, this has got to make getting your DNA results a whole lot more fun. Not to mention this is new, as you already said.
I identify as African American....
I did my DNA about 10 years ago. 72% African. The rest is Scottish, Norwegian, Spanish, Native American, Irish, and Wales.. I'm just all over the globe🤦🏽♀️
Same - I'm a mutt & proud of it!
You are mostly African and European which is true of most of us AAs
This is an excellent video, and it makes its point very clear. I've thought it strange that in China, the 56 ethnic groups are called "nationalities"--especially considering, as we all know, that in a few areas, these "nationalities" haven't even been allowed to have their own nation!
I chuckle because it doesn't matter anymore. You are what are and that's that. It is what it is. Nothing you can do to change it. So let's learn how to embrace it!
Why does it not matter what you are? If you're talking in terms of the racists view then yea, but it def matters to know what you are and where your dna comes from. Knowing yourself is the way to ultimate.knowledge and acceptance of ones self and every other human on this planet.
Great analysis of ethnicity, race, and nationality. Within artificial boundaries called countries you're always are many different groups within the boundaries.
We are all multi racial! We are mutts. So we should realize we are just HUMANS and concentrate on our similarities, not on our differences!
If only most humans thought the same way their would be peace
Not quite.
If the scientific community was as objective as people pretend it is, the whole concept of race could have been dispelled decades ago. But here we are. They Bible was far more honest in not acknowledging race as a specific thing although folks love to force it in there.
I remember a video of someone who kinda based her whole identity on being African (despite being very obviously very mixed) and took a very Afro-centric heritage test that was supposed to trace her ancestry back to specific tribes and whatnot. She was obviously very personally invested in the whole "daughter of Africa" image she had built for herself. The test came back that they couldn't narrow down the results because she wasn't African enough; she was only around 50% African genetically or something like that. And she basically had an emotional breakdown about how this test, that was supposed to validate her and show how strong her African ties were, instead was "basically a slap in the face" by telling her how white she actually is and she wasted her money and wants to take a different test because "obviously, these results aren't right."
The reality is that there is less genetic variance among different "races" and "ethnicities" of human than there is among different breeds of dog; vastly less. People make such a big deal over such superficial differences. The only race is the Human race.
Exactly! Humans aren't that different from each other, if it was than we couldn't get mixed at all.
I understand the hunger for pride in heritage, wanting to be associated with a noble people, and not a pack of enslavers. In reality, though, our ancestry has little, if anything to do with who we are today. We can’t take credit for the victories of our mothers and fathers, neither should we accept blame for their sins. What matters is how I treat you, and vice versa
I knew this Hispanic dude who got so violent he wanted to punch me in the face. We were all sitting around just hanging out and this was 30 years before all this DNA stuff was a thing. We were all talking about where we came from and I told him he had black features and he flew into a rage and told me I was reading the wrong history books and that he was white. I said Bro are you kidding me? Do you know your entire island has been mixed with everything from just about every nationality in Europe and the middle east to African. But he want to classify himself as white even though he had more black features in him. His coarse hair gave him away.
@@Meshuga63 if by not a pack of enslavers you mean africa checkout the ottoman empire and the barbary pirates they took white slaves for over 600 years
It was even funnier than that. She specifically took a mitochondrial (matrilineal line) DNA test, and it came back 100% European. It was hilarious
The Ethiopian people are supposed to be the most genetically diverse people in the world. Which means they hold all the genes for fair skin, dark skin, fair hair, black, brown, straight and curly hair, brown eyes, blue eyes and green eyes. In other words they have the genes of everyone in the world. If, I had that genealogy, I would be so proud.
i dad knows a lot of middle eastern, north african, and eastern european people and a lot of them dont look at all of their countrys stereotypical phenotypes
I don't think that statement is accurate. The various Khoe, Tuu, or Kxʼa-speaking indigenous hunter-gatherer groups are known to be more genetically diverse. They are one of the oldest known groups. Many Ethiopians are mixed with Arabs. Look further on sites on youtube in which Ethiopians submitted their DNA results.
@@JD-fb6rw Arabs are descendant from Ethiopia not the other way round.
@@z7z766 I'm not stating one is descendant from the the other. The area was a very important trading route. Therefore, contact between the groups were common. You'll see similar mixture of people in Somalia, the Sudan, and Eritrea.
This is brilliant. Love to tell you my DNA story so far. As you say this is unfolding. It's a work in progress. We're dealing with estimates and hypotheses. However, we have more than most of us had in the past, save for anecdotes which matter a great deal and the odd documentation. Thank you so much for this. Food for thought. Terrible things have happened to us, true, but it is important to have information, no matter what, understanding that there is a price to pay, a cost for consciousness. As some Akan say, as an admonition, "Don't go looking after lineages."
I believe I’m 100% Congolese 🇨🇩
Really. Was congo available over 400 years ago?
I’m 100% foreign
@@arjealywisseh773 man idk but my parents are both from Congo and idk
@@arjealywisseh773 Kingdom of Kongo existed long before. The slavery began with portuguese coming to Kingdom of Kongo
I am of Nigerian blood - born, raised and living in the UK. I know which part of Nigeria my parents, grandparents and great grandparents hail from so if my DNA results expected on March 23rd 2021 are not fully West African (100%), I will be a little surprised. I took the test out of curiosity and await the results with great interest.
Where did you take your test?
Africans should not even be doing this DNA crap to determine their ethnicity or whatever. Except if your daddy is in doubt anyway.
@@K_Francis866 23andme
Don't be surprised if you're not 100% African, europeans most certainly did sumn to our ancestors...
@@raphrobe-9896 My results were posted in the comments but I am 99.9% Nigerian which I am very happy about
Blame the confusion on the education system, it really does not teach critical thinking skills or encourage individual research. Everyone in this day and age should know about human migration and that mankind has never been happy without exploration. Especially early man who moved out of Africa and into other parts of the world.
People don't want clarity and understanding, they want superficiality and fantasy 'My great, great grandmother was a native american, 'cherokee,' with looooong hair all the way down her back'; 'one-drop rule'.
Did my DNA a couple of years ago. It showed I have DNA from all over the world except for Australia and New Zealand. Native American, Europe, British Isles, Africa, Sweden, Russian, Siberia and Asia.
Its also possible that these people doing the DNA tests just write up some statistics without doing any actual test to save time/money thinking you will never know.
That’s pretty impossible because they also give you a list of your DNA relatives. You receive a list of over 1,000 people.You will see family members here.
Exactly, and some just straight out lie, dna cannot be trusted
@@bulldogbrower6732 impossible? Which galaxy are you from? even the foods that you eat are not what they say they are much less a DNA test.
Indi Russell I fiends of mind did his DNA and he found a uncle he didn't know, his Dad didn't even know he had another brother. My friend Dad live here in England and his new found brother in Canada. But they both were in Jamaica on holiday when they found out.
Also look where your DNA matches are from, this means much more than the ethnicity percentage.
None of it means much of anything. Why should you care where your ancestors came from? Most people don't know and it makes zero difference to them or anyone else. Look at it for curiosity but don't think it matters, because it doesn't.
@@freedapeeple4049 People do it for different reason, it means a lot to some, we all different.
@@suzykeene9298 how dare you! Do dna test if you have children, to make sure they really are yours.
@@freedapeeple4049 Actually you are so very WRONG: in places like South Africa, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand knowing your ancestry is important culturally, politically, and even legally.
The colonial practices of slavery, indentured labour, segregation, forced displacement, often under the auspices of Christian missions, has disconnected whole nations of people from their traditional ancestral lands, culture and identity. In American legal statutes having any African ancestry means you are Black, and we all know the discrimination that happens there against Black and First Peoples. In Australia the consequences to the Stolen Generations are current: not only are First Australians denied their cultural heritage but they they have had their living families stripped away from with parents, uncles and aunts, and even grandparents still living, and still mourning their removal.
There is also another very good reason to know one's genetic ancestry - your health and the health of your descendents. There are various medical conditions that occur with significantly higher incidents in peoples of certain ethnicities, and those with various ancestries may carry recessive or dormant genes for those conditions. Knowing your ancestry and your partner's ancestry gives you and your children the opportunity to get genetic testing to see if you are carriers of those genes. That's important too don't you think?
@@DriftWizard750 Actually I'm Silurian, no human DNA at all. I had a romance with a deliciously handsome man and begat twins. I couldn't bear to part from my man so I take him out of the freezer once a year on our anniversary. As for my kids, they had far too much human dna for me to keep them but just the right amount to go with a full-bodied shiraz. Delicious. How old are you and what's your ethnicity? I need to see if I have the right wine in my cellar.
I took my DNA test with African Ancestry my results was 100% Nigerian imbo/bio on my mom side.
Why you fuckin lie
@@eill4121 Why you not minding your business being a clown??
One love from Abuja ,Nigeria
Bako baba
Damn, 99%!!! That's wild. I've seen alot of dna vids, you're the first 99%er I've seen. Pretty cool
Yes, that most certainly is very cool.
He has high percentage....so my brother what's your percentage
@@omoz189 idk. Never taken a test. I watch alot of the reveals though. Thinking of taking two. African ancestry is a guarantee, I'm definitely taking that one but the other few companies idk. A few questions marks.
No question mark at all for me my brother Ancestry 23andme is the business I wouldn't waste £300 on African Ancestry hmmmm na mate I'm not dissing it it's just that with 23andme and Ancestry told me all what I know and more ! But maybe when I do the African Ancestry I hope they get it right were I am from as I know for the last 2000 years it's been southern Nigeria my brother 🤔🤔
@@omoz189 I feel u. African Ancestry does cost a bit, but I can do it. Seems you already had some information to go on also. That's cool. Here, I'm just a regular black dude. No information at all.
This is a huge thing in our times.
What is identity? As you said you were born in England, so its kind of like when the Moshiach is both son of David and son of Joseph.
You might not understand. You can say you are british and also you are african. You are both!
The problem we have in society today is when someone says you are african but you say you are british or when you are told you are only british, but then your history is rebuked.
Im not the best with words, but there has to be something going forward that is origin DNA, and where we dwell. both are important parts of everyones' identity and everyones' story!
Please push this fantastic revelation forward brother, its really important. You have found what defines us, where we are from or originate and where we dwell or live. It forms the narrative, it creates the story!
Concise
Direct
Straight whiskey without ice or non-alcoholic mixtire
This was pleasantly Straight No Chaser as I like to say